hey Beau Hall, how do you record you guitar? Do you mic it? Or it's plugged straight to the sound card? Or do you record at studio? I never achieve a good tone when recording in my house, only in studio.
How do you people do?

I heard that he plays NOTHING its all samples...

Watch it Groove,

Beau told me about the mic he uses and it kicks ass.
It's a Octava 357 diaphram. It's improved my sound by 200%. I'll get something done this weekend to demonstrate it to everyone. Other than that, Beau will have to fill you in.

groovement said:

You're right. I've got a loops/samples from a disc I bought off of Ebay - "Beau's Loopin To Pleez!" $30-cheep.

Actually, Slave, I haven't used that mic for recording guitar, except acoustic on a demo.

My guitars, for the most part, are recorded direct. (but by Direct, I mean, plugged my guitar into an amp modeler, which makes the signal usable for recording directly into the recoding machine).

On Star 69, I'm using the built in amp modeler in the Zoom MRS1044.

On my other songs, it's either the Zoom or it's my Johnson J-Station, another amp modeler. Miking guitars works on heavier songs, but on the funk stuff, I want it to be as clean and dry as possible - no effects, no nuttin.

If you just plug your guitar into effects and then run that straight into your computer, you're never going to get a good tone because the signal is too hot. You need something that will convert the hot signal to something more suitable for direct recording. You could buy an amp modeler, or just get a "direct box" which does the conversion without coloring the tone.

But in my pinion, an amp modeler is the way to go. It's not PROFESSIONAL sounding by any means, but it's easy to dial in a tone that's close to what you're looking for without a lot of effort. I'm REALLY digging the Zoom's sounds now. I'm thinking about getting a pedal version for live shows - I can't lug my 8-track around to gigs.

Well-I don't WANNA.
[This message was edited Tue May 13 12:10:02 PDT 2003 by otan]

Thanks