How to Record Electric Guitar - Part 2: Microphone Positions 

The guitarist should not have been switching pickups if we wanted to hear an accurate comparison. At minute 3:15 ... the guitarist is using the bridge pickup on his Stratocaster as the narrator is saying that a microphone in the center position will give you a brighter sound. (Well of course it’s gonna sound brighter, he’s using the bridge pickup) Then when he moves the mic to the right side of speaker, the guitarist switches to the neck pick up which sounds a lot “warmer” or “smoother”. The narrator in this instance says “now the guitar will sound smoother” (well of course it is, the guitarist switched to the neck pickup) I would have rather had the guitarist stay on the same pickup to better compare the difference in microphone position. I am not throwing any hate, whatsoever. I’m a proud Neumann microphone owner. The TLM102 and KM184 are amazing!

The technique to compare noise is incredible. I've been studying recording for years and this is the first I heard of that. Thank you, I subscribed!

The best channel for understanding the recording stuffs. and what a presenter he is!

you dont need the amp noise play in to a looper and let the looper work so its play something through the amp and now play with the mic position

Thanks for this well made presentation

swear to god I thought he was gonna play slow dancing in a burning room

Thank you for this series of videos about how to record a guitar sound

Excellent video & Advices : Thanks a lot to Neumann, Sound engineer & guitarist ;)

Thanks for this team, really well done all round! Cheers

Excellent! I've been looking forward to more of your videos.

Amazing video !~ both of u did great job, that trick of the noise background is sounds very interesting - i'm gonna test it for sure

Very useful information and great presentation! Thanks! 😀

Great video. Easily digestible info. Thanks!

And there I was, thinking, I've seen it all. Great Vid, thank you!

Amazing work. Thank you!

Wow I just learned how to mic a guitar amp!!!

This video is very educational, thank you guys!

What a brilliant video!!

I love these tutorials

What I do to help find a good mike position if I'm recording alone is use a looper pedal. I just play a part of the song and loop it, and then use the headphones to find a mic position that sounds good. Then I do a test recording to see if that mic position is gelling with the other instruments.

Love the video. The hosts voice tone sounded way to sharp in these 2 videos. Need the vocal chain from the mics video. Just my opinion. Great videos though I would love to see tons more of these recording techniques tips and trics type videos. Thanks guys

Great tip. Very good!

Great video thanks alot!

Excellent. I learned.

What a good Videos!!! GRACIAS

I wish I had this stuff when I started being in a band in 2003.

Great video!!!!

Awesome video! Did you pad the signal in that case? Thank you

YOU ARE GREAT!!!

3:22 shouldn't have switched his pick up to compare a mic placement

very visualy and interesting

Love the video, can you do a video on how to record bass and drums to? 😊

Thanks for your great suggestion, but I prefer so much the binaural sound provided by KU 100 'dummy head', infact I use it since 2001 for almost all my recordings, not only for testing..!! ;) [several examples on my humble channel] So, thanks forever to Neumann and to his astounding KU 100, for having done me a very very happy man!!! :)))

Nice vid. Did you pad the signal when recording with the condenser mic? Thank you

Finally!

C'mon guys, you talk about bright sound based on mic position and then you change pick up selector during the recording. Bridge position is always brighter than neck!

I have a TLM 103 and I use it to record amplifiers, but sometimes I'm afraid of high gain levels that it receives from the amplifiers, can it spoil? Is there any parameter I should follow, any tips?!! Excellent video, great

How do you record a tube amp without picking up the natural feedback from the amp

What did you change on the amp to get the background noise? You just turned volume all the way up?

bonito :)

How would I bring up the white/ pink noise in the amp ?

What mic are you using in this demo? Might be good to mention that somewhere since you're trying to sell them...

I thought he will play Slow dancing in a burning room by John Mayer 🤣

4:59 normal mic 9:32 Binaural

I dont get close to a good Tone. Just dont work. Try to record my Distortion Guitar but it always sounds sratchy and has 0 lows.

estuvo mamón!

Wow that guitarist is small…. 😂

Talks about artist originality, the. Plays nothing but covers songs lol

So weird to hear the guy talk, and then a voice over of the same guy talking. Very unnerving. Good mic'ing tips though.