Mikael's 1:st guitar day

Kind of relaxed and short day today. Met up with Mikael in the studio around 6.30 pm today and he immediately started to try out different rhythm guitar sounds. Put up two Shure SM57 pointing to Mikael's Marshall cabinet from different angles ---> through a TL Audio 5001 tube preamp ---> into our Behringer MX8000 mixing console ---> into our Soundtrack C-port DSP card --> Steinberg Nuendo 2. That's our current studio situation. Mikael's guitar setup sounded great without even equalizing anything, although we decided to add a low-pass filter and notch a few dBs around 5 kHz. Also, we dipped a few dBs around 100 hz. Interesting as hell, huh?

Mikael was eager to start recording and he almost immediately nailed two songs: SPAWN and REMOTE VIEWS. Impressive as that was, we decided to wrap it up for the day. More guitar reporting will follow tomorrow.

Here's Mikael setup: Ibanez RG7420 -> TC Electronic Integrated Preamplifier -> Yamaha DG1000 preamp -> Rocktron Velocity 500 power amp -> Marshall 1960B JCM900 cabinet

Check out a video clip of Mikael recording some guitar