Barber Electronics forum.

Wanted to say thanks to David for setting up this forum (and for the great pedals). Thought I'd start with a post here.

Clip in my sig has me playing the main rhythm riff on a Glendale Tele with Fender Nocaster pickups through a Small Fry and a Digitech Digidelay into a Traynor YCV40WR (stock Celestion Vintage 30 speaker). Nothing fancy from a playing standpoint, but I like the tone. The amp was mic'd with Royer 121 and Shure SM57 mics. I'm pretty sure this mix is mainly the Royer.

Very nice.

Thanks for the post! Very nice Small fry tones, works very well in context of the tune too.

Always love the Royer's. Can't live without my R-121

By the way.. Have you tried that Royer on the singers vocal? Sound good on some vocals.. I would think it would sound very good on her voice. Maybe even using the back side of the mic (for a little brighter sound) with micpre phase reversed.

Thanks for the comments! I was really pleased to hear how good the SF tones sounded on a "real" recording. It sounds good on my very bargain-basement setup at home too, but this was a whole different deal.

And I'll keep the Royer suggestion in mind for vocals too. I believe the vocal mic on this was a Bock 195. Sounded incredible to my ears on the studio monitors. Some of that got lost a little bit in the final mixes, although overall I'm quite pleased with how it came out.

The recording situation was a bit unusual. We got the chance to spend a day recording for free as the "test subjects" for a Recording Arts class at a new recording/film/computer game develop school here in Chicago called Flashpoint Academy.

http://www.flashpointacademy.com/

The students (with a lot of input from the very experienced instructor) handle setting up the mics, pres, compression, verb, etc., running the board (a full on Pro Tools HD setup) during tracking, etc. Each student is then assigned a couple of tunes, and work on mixes of those over the next several weeks, getting feedback from us at a couple of stages. The final mixes were of somewhat varying quality, but generally were quite good. And we came away with 4 DVDs full of 24-bit/96k Pro Tools files from the sessions should we want to do more with them.

We're actually going back to do it again in a couple weeks. Last time, we rushed to get as many tunes in the can as we could (got 10, plus one sucky take of an 11th). This time, we're going to focus on a smaller number of tunes, spending more time dialing in tones, etc. Should be fun.

I've done a ton of gtr tracks over that last few years with the combo of Royer R-121 and U195 Soundelux (now Bock 195) great combo. Lately I do the same thing but use an AT 4047 in place of the U195. Using Chandler TG-2 pre amp or my Chandler LTD-1.