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Default Modern Reviewing Practices In Audio Rags Have Become Useless

On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 10:37:21 AM UTC-7, Arny Krueger wrote:
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On Monday, August 5, 2013 7:03:57 PM UTC-7, Robert Peirce wrote:

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Andrew Haley wrote:

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if some of them are electronic, fair enough.

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That's different. Electronic music has to be amplified. However, wou=

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you mic a guitar amp and pipe it through a PA?

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Most recordings are made by plugging the guitar directly into the mixin=

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console.

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Probably not so much. Guitar players seem to be chauvenistic about their=

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choices of guitar amps, and want them to be part of the signal path.


Most guitarists are very very into the sound of guitar. Even electric guita=
r and amps etc. And yeah, a lot of them want the amp to be the source not t=
he feed from the pickup. Techniques for playing and recording guitars in po=
p/rock music are all over the map.

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However I'm quite sure that there are exceptions whereby the

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guitar amp itself (necessary for the musicians to HEAR themselves) is

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miked acoustically, but that doesn't seem to be the norm.

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It goes either way.



And many other ways. Here is an example of a couple of true geniuses making=
amazing live sound using electric and acoustic instruments. I have seen th=
se two play together in small concert halls, bars churches and gatherings. =
They make beautiful live music that is pretty far from all acoustic but the=
y know what they are doing and put a lot of work into their sound. In this =
video the one mic is doing the whole recording and the two guitars are bein=
g played through the little amp on the ground.=20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DPNStL70cLlk