Other than the SM57 and Senny MD421 are there any other go to mics that you like to use on electric guitar amps?

Budget is around £200

Cheers

You might consider a Peluso CEMC-6.

57 and 421 are definitely top of my list, but depending on what the part is trying to say my other favourites are:

Audix D6 - good for aiding/abetting a scooped sound.
AKG D5 - finds more bite and tidies up lows as it goes.
MD441 - good for lead parts when you want grit and definition.
U87Ai - I place this further away than a dynamic for a softer tone with more room.
Sony F-98 - an off-the-wall oddity that rounds off edges and gets a great blues tone.
Audix i5 - I've only used this a couple of times for guitar cab. It has a perkier, less forgiving tone than a 57, which is useful if this is the 8th rhythm guitar overdub and you still need it to be heard!

Occasionally I double up some of the mic's, but this is to give me options. I'm not a big fan of mixing two mic's. Sometimes I'll mix a distant U87Ai with a close mic, but that's about my limit.

HTH!

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Sennheiser e906 or the slightly cheaper e606. Must admit, used almost exclusively for live - can't remember the last time I recorded electric guitar.

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Other than the SM57 and Senny MD421 are there any other go to mics that you like to use on electric guitar amps?

Budget is around £200

Cheers

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As Ever: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug07/articles/guitaramprecording.htm

And...Ah done know. Ah ony heard but...You might just as well ask "what is the best amp to mic up?"!

Dave. (why does the line spacing get changed from "review" to "submit" please?)Fork! It didn't this time!!!

Edited by ef37a (25/07/12 07:46 AM)

Sontronics Sigma or other similar ribbon mic...

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Sontronics Sigma or other similar ribbon mic...

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Aha! Yes, son found a practical use for my 30Ohm Reslo RBs in front of a Greenback.

Dave.

+1 for ribbon - we tried a cheap Art ribbon with a standard SM57 and it gave more weight to the sound. Really good tone balance with combination. Make sure that they are in phase!

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I've no experience with it but I remember reading that Kevin Shirley used a Beyerdynamic M201 with Iron Maiden, might be worth checking out.

My favourite mic, especially for difficult guitar sounds, is half an old Sennheiser HD400.

James.

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we usually use an sm58....

but.....this time we used a SE electronics s2200, just because we didn't get the right tone from the sm (don't know why really)....and it seemed to work very well....gave us a more rounded tone

we had to fiddle with the positioning to get the right sound, but it worked very well for us this time

and well within your £200 budget

(we also recorded the vocals and the mono drum overheads with this mic....quite a useful mic for the budgetry challenged!)

just another option...recorded an orange head with a metaamp speaker

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I have heard great things about the Beyer M160/M260 Ribbon mics in this position.
Look em' up.

cheers

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