Time to do Guitar Tracking; for this we would be using a Vox Valvetronix Modelling Amp, two SM57’s one at the centre of the speaker and one at the edge of the cone. We would also be using a sE2200a II as a Room Mic to pick up some nice ambient room sounds to make the whole overtone of the guitar sound a bit ‘Bigger’ rather than just sounding like it’s in a medium sized room in a studio.

When choosing an Amp we went from a Medium sized amp because if we used a Smaller Amp the wattage and Speaker size would be too small and it would just sound too noisy and if we used one that was too big we wouldn’t be able to crank it up therefore it wouldn’t sound as nice because it wouldn’t be reaching it’s potential.

The Room Mic was set to Omni-Directional so it would pick up the whole room, we also turned on a Low Shelf so it reduced the low frequencies. A Low Shelf is different to a Low Pass Filter which will just cut out the low frequencies. We also set a Low Shelf on the SM57’s from the Desk to take out the low frequencies from 50 Hz and below. When positioning the SM57’s we reversed the faze but it wasn’t needed because they were inline with each other.