PRS Archon Classic

[JiveTurkey]

I listened to the clips, this might not be for me after all. Hard to say as I didn’t see what speakers they were using, could be the speakers weren’t my thing.

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I believe his cab is loaded with 2 H75s?

 

[dk_ace]

I believe his cab is loaded with 2 H75s?

Hmmm, might not be my amp flavor then. I generally like anything in the greenback family.

D

 

[mbugbee]

I was relieved

It just meant you need the matching cab too.

 

[GuitarBilly74]

Yeah this sounds really good on Zachs clip. The official PRS demo sounds a bit bland.

 

[Baba]

It just meant you need the matching cab too.

 

[mk5]

I listened to the clips, this might not be for me after all. Hard to say as I didn’t see what speakers they were using, could be the speakers weren’t my thing.

D

I hear what you’re hearing. I’d like to hear different speakers too

 

[James Freeman]

I’ve almost bought a Suhr 212 on more then a few occasions because of Zach.

I believe his cab is loaded with 2 H75s?

In his "How to Mic a Guitar Amp & Record Guitars" video you can see how processed his final tone is, which sounds great, but at this point the cab or what Celestion was used hardly matters.

 

[Deadpan]

Great minds

Funny thing, for some reason every time I see this picture I some how think it is @JiveTurkey posting haha

 

[JiveTurkey]

Funny thing, for some reason every time I see this picture I some how think it is @JiveTurkey posting haha

Great minds

 

[JiveTurkey]

In his "How to Mic a Guitar Amp & Record Guitars" video you can see how processed his final tone is, which sounds great, but at this point the cab or what Celestion was used hardly matters.

I'll have to dig that up Every guitar channel is pretty much amp---loadbox---IRs at this point that seeing a cab and some mics in the frame always pleases me.

 

[Baba]

Every guitar channel is pretty much recorded in such a way that it will NEVER sound like that in my room/in my ears, so they are worthless

FTFY

 

[laxu]

In his "How to Mic a Guitar Amp & Record Guitars" video you can see how processed his final tone is, which sounds great, but at this point the cab or what Celestion was used hardly matters.

I don't really agree with that. It's not like he's doing a ton of shaping to the sound. Some low/high cuts, and taking care of some anomalies. Even when he demoes basically just the two mics it still sounds mostly like the same sound.

Adding a bit of room reverb can breath some life into the sound that is missing with a purely close miced sound played on its own.

He says things like "I'm hearing something in the room and to replicate that I'm doing this" quite a few times in his video. I think that's totally fine.

 

[JiveTurkey]

I don't really agree with that. It's not like he's doing a ton of shaping to the sound. Some low/high cuts, and taking care of some anomalies. Even when he demoes basically just the two mics it still sounds mostly like the same sound.

Adding a bit of room reverb can breath some life into the sound that is missing with a purely close miced sound played on its own.

He says things like "I'm hearing something in the room and to replicate that I'm doing this" quite a few times in his video. I think that's totally fine.

I watched the vid in question. He's running 2 mics, ensuring there are no phase issues and doing some surgical eq'ing and adding reverb. It wasn't as drastic as I expected but definitely doing some post production on it.

 

[Funk Soul Brother]

 

[Whizzinby]

I don't really agree with that. It's not like he's doing a ton of shaping to the sound. Some low/high cuts, and taking care of some anomalies. Even when he demoes basically just the two mics it still sounds mostly like the same sound.

Adding a bit of room reverb can breath some life into the sound that is missing with a purely close miced sound played on its own.

He says things like "I'm hearing something in the room and to replicate that I'm doing this" quite a few times in his video. I think that's totally fine.

I agree. The only thing he is doing that I even consider semi notable in terms of processing is his use of Soothe, but you can see he has it dialed back pretty far. (I’d guess it’s more of a security blanket type thing, since his core tone is already good)

Otherwise, a high/low cut and a room reverb into a limiter isn’t what I’d consider overly processed. But I guess it depends on how “pure” you want your preferred demos to be.