Questions About Soundclips

[Steve Conner]

You can make a temporary ghetto version of the iso cab by putting your amp in a closet, close miking it and using a load of bedding, towels, sofa cushions, mattresses etc. to absorb the room sound. Of course taking care to allow ventilation for your tubes.

This may actually sound less boxy than a "real" iso cab because the "box" is bigger and has more damping material in it. But the sound leakage will be greater, because your average closet won't have the heavy construction and airtight door of an iso cab. Unless you feel like soundproofing a cupboard specially for the job.

I always thought my amps sounded better at gigs because I got the chance to crank them up a bit. But for recording demos and so on, I plonk the amp in the corner of the room and shove a SM57 in the grill, then turn it up as loud as I think my neighbours will stand.

[David Schwab]

This is why I don't bother with using an amp for recording. I get much more controllable results with amp sims. On the recording you can't tell the difference. I like the one in my Roland mixer so much that I'd use it with a power amp as a guitar amp life, if I were playing guitar.

Now if I had a real recording studio then I would use an amp. Sometimes.