As a music degree and masters guy, this level of content makes me wonder what I spent the money on in my education days. Different gravy Mr Smith - thank you for sharing your knowledge, enthusiasm and experience. You're a wonderful musician and even nicer human. More power to you. Larry, Cambridge UK.

@JoshSmithGuitar

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words!

Great video! I learned a lot!

Thank you so much for this clear explanation!

Thank you Josh!

I'm finding your content really useful Josh. Thanks so much for being cool.

@JoshSmithGuitar

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

@AnodyneHipsterInfluencer

3 жыл бұрын

Word 💯🍻

Man, just a big thank you for all you do

Josh, that was invaluable information I've , never heard such clarity, and to the point on this subject.

Loving the all the knowledge and tones! Thank you for sharing and spreading some inspiration 🖖🏻

Glorious guitar tone and masterful playing! 🔊🔥🤠👍

Thanks for sharing this, Josh.

Thank you for sharing this methodical comparison. It's nice to hear the different combinations.

Thank you Josh !!

As always great playing and love the channel. I find this kind of info invaluable and appreciate you taking the time to share it. As I type I'm trying to figure out how to lower my mic stand, lol! Gonna have to cut mine down a bit.

Great insight, thanks Josh.

Good stuff! Cheers Josh!!

Great video, thanks for explaining it, as always amazing playing. Thank you

You’re such an inspiration. Keep it up man.

Hi Josh, thanks so much for this educational video on recording guitar! I am just learning to do this. I have a killer Dumble clone and looking to record it properly. Sounds awesome man.

Thank you so much for sharing your secret josh .that’s so kind of you ❤️🙏

@JoshSmithGuitar

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!!

Great video, very informative. Easy to understand. Josh has a warmth in his playing and tone that is exceptional and nostalgic. Love the bebop influence in your playing.

Awesome to see how you get your guitar sound..thank you for sharing..It sounds great!

Subscribed because of this video! Thanks for sharing your recording process!

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and passion for guitar. It’s Super informative and endlessly entertaining. Cheers. 🎸

Started watching your channel because I saw the attention to detail you put into the Sultans of Swing solo you did on another channel. Holy cow are you killing it! Great GREAT job!

Thanks for sharing this -- in an era of digital modelers and heavy stereo modulation fx, it's super cool and somehow fresher sounding to see and hear a single mono combo amp mic'd well with minimal post processing

Thank you for sharing this level of expertise.

Excellent, I will try this out 👍🏻

that ribbon mic on the amp on it's own is already killer enough for me. Great videos from JS

The opening passage is some of the best guitar tone I've heard...my heart belongs to a Tele into a Fender-style amp.

Killer stuff Josh!

that sounds so damn good!

Thanks Josh, with all the different guitar videos on KZread your content stands out in a big way.

@JoshSmithGuitar

3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that!

outstanding audio and playing!

Your playing and tone are something else 😳👍🏻😎🎸

Fantastic sounding setup and great demo..but the Trident 70 is a dream..❤️

Thanks for this no BS guide! Whenever this Covid situation gets under control, and if you come to Atlanta, I'll be there!

That intro Josh 😵, amazing...

Very cool, thank you :)

Damn, it must feel great to be able to play a guitar like that. Your playing is sooo good it’s ridiculous. All of your videos are also great. I’m really looking forward to joining the club, and learning from you. Fantastic video!

@JoshSmithGuitar

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words!

thanks Josh. u d man

Very helpful, simple but super effective. I haven't gigged in 12 years, I know you're jonesing to, hang in there, hope to see you someday soon.

Very useful information Josh! Thank you. Subscribed

@JoshSmithGuitar

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub!

I dig it

Thank you

Unidyne 3 - YES!!! Exellent choice, they can be hard to find though.... more pleasing high end than regular SM57s.

Hi Josh these vids are amazing, can you do a vid on the setup of your amps, and how you use the AC40/JS12 together. I have started to use an old Fender Bronco/AC10 together at home and it sounds so good.

The best sounds are well-liked amps. Love my modelers, but a good lesson for me.

Mmmm sounds so tasty. Would love to plug into the Morgan. Thanks Josh.

Great stuff, I used to use a 57 with a Royer 121 close mic until I spent a lot of time with the M160 and for my sound I found I could go to just that mic and a room mic for the most part. I was always EQing the blend of the 57 and the 121 to blend similar to what a M160 naturally sounds like, plus I figure if it worked for Jimi...:)

Love your playing, your sound, and your tech expertise! Thanks for the continued videos. Unfortunately I had a nightmare experience with Joe Morgan a few years back. Hopefully my situation was just an anomaly, but I would caution anyone looking at Morgan amps.

@JoshSmithGuitar

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry to hear that, I've used them now for 10 years and never had any issues with them or Joe.

Excellent demonstration, thank you. Would you ever use a DI signal?

You are the reason I got my first Tele ;-)

@JoshSmithGuitar

3 жыл бұрын

Ruling!

Thanks for sharing, Josh! What pups are in your tele?

Any insights on eq and processing to get guitars to sit in the mix?

Super useful video- simple and something any of us can achieve and modify to our taste. Really like the way you're letting us see "under the hood" at Flat V! BTW- where does the name Flat V come from? I've subbed for years- maybe it's time to join the team?

I guess the combination of a sm57 and the royer r-121 would sound similar: the royer sounds somewhat thinner but gets the bottom from the sm57 (80 hertz), while the Unidyne shuts down around 100hertz and gets bottom from the mesanovic..afterall it's taste anyways

Hey josh, happy new year. Could I ask? Are you still using thick strings 13 up, do you use a wound G, cheers from the U.K👍

Do you ever play or own a rosewood fretboard telecaster?

Love the Tele and your playing! Is that a roasted maple neck, 9.5 radius? Thanks for the outstanding videos!

@JoshSmithGuitar

3 жыл бұрын

It's is a 9.5 inch radius, not roasted though.

Great sound you have there.....for the budget musician...try out a Cascade fathead ribbon mic and do a similar technique...

@JoshSmithGuitar

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, used to use one all the time!

Hey Josh, thx for the awesome vid. I learned a ton. Do you always record with ambience through the amp? Like I hear verb and maybe slap in the vid. Or do you ever add ambience to the guitar when mixing with plugins for example?

@JoshSmithGuitar

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I usually commit to some sort of amp verb. Sometimes I add stuff later.

Thanks for sharing the info, Josh. If I may, two quick questions: did I understand correctly at 3.23 that you’re recording your guitar at 192, or is that just the name of the hardware and you’re at 44.1/48? Separately, if you had to use software rather than outboard, what type of virtual console / pre strip would you go for? Thank you for the content and well done on a great KZread channel. Hopefully it goes without saying that it’s always great to hear you play, and I reckon you’re a prime example of tone being in the fingers as well as the whole rig!

@JoshSmithGuitar

3 жыл бұрын

192's are the name of the interface(an old Avid/Digi one). I never record at 192, usually 96k or 48k. Virtual channel strip for me would be the UA Neve 1073, it's killer. Thanks!!

@onenotesolo256

3 жыл бұрын

@@JoshSmithGuitar appreciate it, thanks Josh.

What's the thing behind the amp, is it to absorb or reflect the amp sound? Great sound and exquisite playing as usual! I of course had to buy a JS12 but it doesn't quite have the same same phrasing, melodic ideas through cord changes, time or creativity when I play it :-) Will try to change tubes, that must be it!

@JoshSmithGuitar

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! That's my Leslie for the B3, it's normally in the iso booth at all times.

Hi Josh! thanks for these usefull informations 👍 Have You Ever try the beyerdinamic m81? 😉

@JoshSmithGuitar

3 жыл бұрын

No I haven't actually

@davideperi2644

3 жыл бұрын

More natural and smooth in my opinion... Many thanks for your videos and many compliments, top guitar player!

This is helpful for me, someone who's only getting started to record guitar. So, for a beginner, how DO you check to see if your two mics are in or out of phase? Just by looking at the waveforms in the recorded file, to see if they actually line up? Thanks!

@JoshSmithGuitar

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, and by listening mostly. While there is always in and out of phase, there is no right or wrong.

@MatthewJBell

3 жыл бұрын

@@JoshSmithGuitar Thank you, Sir. Keep up the good work.

Any special room treatment where the amp is located?

@JoshSmithGuitar

3 жыл бұрын

It's in my iso booth out in the live room. There is treatment yes in both the booth and the live room. Although the only mic really getting the benefit would be the room mic.

Hey man would love to get you on my podcast!

You got close to explaining phase but then jumped to polarity, which is kind of a different thing, or a singular degree of phase shift. The two terms get intermixed and it leads to confusion. You started out explaining that the sound wave should be at the same point in time. Maybe zooming way in on a PT waveform would help to illustrate this. You can then move the mics so that the waveforms are synchronized together in time. Or as engineers often do with all the mics around a drum kit, bump the waveforms forward or backwards in time (or use a delay) so that the waveforms line up "in phase", typically with respect to the snare. When two signals are out of phase by 180 degrees they theoretically cancel completely. One is said to have an inverted polarity with respect to the other. This is the switch on your desk. In inverts polarity. I'm sure you've encountered pedals or things like Fender reverb amps where the polarity of one channel is the opposite of the other. I used to have a small live sound company and this semantic distinction was very important to the varsity live sound engineers. Polarity inversion switches can help with signals that are run through extra gain stages (typically any singled ended gain stage inverts polarity) and get them going the same direction. Unfortunately they can't help with multiple signals that are at some relations other than 0 or 180 degrees. As mentioned, recording engineers can bump the waveforms forward or back in time but live sound engineers can't. And on a stage you always have multiple mics picking up the same source, each with a different distance and corresponding delay, that all get mixed together. What being at some point between 0 and 180 out of phase will do is create comb filtering. Where narrow bands of frequency will line up reversed in polarity with respect to each other and cancel those frequencies strongly while having less effect on others. Part of the reason that this isn't as simple as things being in polarity or out of polarity, and the reason you could still hear sound when you inverted the polarity of one mic, is that nothing is uniform in phase over frequency. Particularly any transducer like a speaker or microphone. And tone circuits create all kind of frequency dependent phase shift. Most gain circuits have some degree of frequency dependent phase shift. So once you start mixing microphones, and plugging them into different signal chains (as many folks are want to do) the combinations are going to have all kinds of frequency dependent cancellations and summation reinforcements. To say nothing of different amps or speakers (having two different speakers in a cabinet and mic'ing them separately is a popular technique). So you start with zooming in on the lower frequency waveforms that you can see and shift microphones or bump the tracks so that they are as aligned as possible. Then experiment a bit with slight shifts to see if the resultant comb filtering is better or worse. Sometimes you can hit a magic spot. I know this is a lot of words, but it's important. The terms phase and polarity get misused almost as often as lectern and podium. Dealing with either requires different techniques.

It looks like you have the Morgan's volume about 4 o'clock - is that right? cheers!

@JoshSmithGuitar

3 жыл бұрын

No, more like 11-11:30.

@CNCTEMATIC

3 жыл бұрын

@@JoshSmithGuitar Thanks! I'm seeing your amp upside down.

Oh man... Who poked the woofers on your NS1s?!? Are they still able to walk?

@JoshSmithGuitar

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they still work fine though!

Awesome @joshsmith! Did you use this same method when recording Artur Menezes guitar on the Fading Away record?

@JoshSmithGuitar

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Sometime we added another amp, but this was the main setup.

What's all that buzzing in the background? I have ears like a bat!! 🦇

Hey josh! Are you a N Y yankee resident? Great playing I’m gland I found you!

@JoshSmithGuitar

3 жыл бұрын

Just a life long fan whose family is from Jersey and Connecticut

@unclesalty7778

3 жыл бұрын

@@JoshSmithGuitar Thanks for responding! I’m from Westchester n y if things get back to normal and you ever gig around the white plains area or surrounding area let me know I would like to see you perform! Be well and stay safe!

How do u use such big strings & somehow ur still able to keep the G-string from sounding heavy? Do u use pure nickels?

@JoshSmithGuitar

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, pure nickel.

@MAP448

3 жыл бұрын

@@JoshSmithGuitar that has to be the reason the G-string sounds a little bit softer. What strings do you recommend? I tried some of Fender's Pure Nickel 9's-42's but they sounded so soft & light. It took me a while b4 I started thinking. Hey maybe that's why S.R.V. used such big strings. U have to use much bigger strings to get a really good sound if ur using Pure Nickel. If u use steel strings u can use much lighter strings But they still have that pingy sound. They bite so fiercely. Making for a very high trebley sound. Unappealing to most people's ears. Thanks Josh! I think I get it now. I just needed to use bigger Pure Nickel Strings. I'll try & work my way up over a few months.

Josh could play with gloves on and it would still sound great.

Yeah but what is your I/O into the computer?

@JoshSmithGuitar

3 жыл бұрын

Avid 192s

@TheOriginalArchie

3 жыл бұрын

@@JoshSmithGuitar Thank you sir. I might have missed that, never heard of Avid, looking now.

The reverb we hear as you’re demonstrating each mic, was it added post or was it from the amp and you commit to it when recording?

@JoshSmithGuitar

3 жыл бұрын

From the amp!

Step 1 to recording good guitar: Play the shit out of a guitar.