Hey Gang,
A buddy came over to record some tracks to demo his newly built Tele and brought a Fender tweed amp. I used a MXL 601s small diaphram condensor to mic the amp and when we started the amp sound KILLER and it was trackin great!NOW, after he got warmed up and we decided to go for KEEPS of these tracks, we started gettin some distortion on play back ,even at low DB levels when there was hardly any sound pressure attacking the mic..As the amp warmed up, we lost our sound BUT, keep in mind all the while , we NEVER heard ANY distortion coming from the amp itself during the input signal recording the tracks.
I recorded an acoustic gtr during the process and beat the daylites out of it putting the signal LEDS in the red and NO distortion on play back...Like I say , the playback was distorting at levels -9 thru -12 very low DB..It was kind of a "fuzz".We switched over to a 57 and had NO problem BUT, could not get the sound we wanted from it.Anyway , any idea what happened to this MIC? We had it the same distance from the amp , same input gain, etc..Nothing changed from the beginning to which we had no problem?..Do condersor mics build up some kinda "electrical field" while micing an amp? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks,
John
A buddy came over to record some tracks to demo his newly built Tele and brought a Fender tweed amp. I used a MXL 601s small diaphram condensor to mic the amp and when we started the amp sound KILLER and it was trackin great!NOW, after he got warmed up and we decided to go for KEEPS of these tracks, we started gettin some distortion on play back ,even at low DB levels when there was hardly any sound pressure attacking the mic..As the amp warmed up, we lost our sound BUT, keep in mind all the while , we NEVER heard ANY distortion coming from the amp itself during the input signal recording the tracks.
I recorded an acoustic gtr during the process and beat the daylites out of it putting the signal LEDS in the red and NO distortion on play back...Like I say , the playback was distorting at levels -9 thru -12 very low DB..It was kind of a "fuzz".We switched over to a 57 and had NO problem BUT, could not get the sound we wanted from it.Anyway , any idea what happened to this MIC? We had it the same distance from the amp , same input gain, etc..Nothing changed from the beginning to which we had no problem?..Do condersor mics build up some kinda "electrical field" while micing an amp? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks,
John