Close Miking Kills Kittens or How to Mic Your amp the RIGHT WAY if the sound-man will let you! 

In another black and white video, George had his cab mic'd at the center of the speaker but there was a cloth face that had a 3" circle of wood? backing support for the grill cloth covering the center of the speaker. The narrator explained that the treble high end sound would travel to the outer rim of the speaker, breaking up the harshness of the high end treble, blending it into the rest of the sound into the mic placed about a foot to 16" away. . To emulate that setup, i made a round cardboard cover attached with tape to do the same with the mic as he did. Blend the treble to the outer edge instead of straight into the mic. I have the cover on even playing without the mic and its not so peaky in the high end in an open room. Also, i made a cardboard cover that brings the sound out the front in a half open back amp. So my mid bass is present in the front instead of into the walls behind the amp. And cardboard does resonate different than a masonite panel would. I play a Tele thinline and i enjoy the open sound. I even use elixir phos. bronze strings to get a string sound while i play mostly clean tones. Sometimes a pinch of overdrive or distortion, depending on how i ramp up my pick attack or where i play over the pickups or not. My amp is a Mustang LT25 on superclean digital (zero 60cycle hum) into a Crate cab with a G12k 100 Celestion speaker. That crate amp died so, i have a great Studio setup. I use Behringer acoustic DI to preamp my signal and the tone is so full with that 25 watt Fender amp. About that cardboard circle...i need tremble to get the high frequency tone from my wound strings and covering the center of the speaker cone as it doesnt let the treble dominate that tone right off what the mic can pickup. One cannot calibrate that electronically, so ya gotta do it physically with a circle of cardboard. Thanks George Harrison ! hahahaha I love your videos, sir.... I enjoy messing with stuff as you do. Very informative videos, thank you ! My next experiment is to mic 10' away from my amp, mic facing into a corner wall with a cone around the mic barrel to draw the sound in. The room is about 20' x 20' carpeted with two couches to absorb some reverberant sounds. I desire a large, natural sounding room. We'll see. Also, my Yamaha finger drum kit will run thru that Celestion and i desire to make a big room sound, in real time. I record with a Zoom R12. Works great$$

After george left The Beatles John return from lunch and maybe feel a bit frustrated and decide to crank the twins,the fat crunchy overdrive is awesome

how you finding those PRS McCarty's? I think they're great..