In axis? Distance?
No i play rock and hard rock
Yeah I figured haha. Don't pay too much attention to what I'm saying then.
I adore Ola a lot but his micing technique leaves a lot to be desired. I've even seen some videos where the mics are horribly out-of-phase with each other throughout the video and nobody apparently seemed to have batted an eye. I even bought one of his IRs that he has recently started shooting and selling for 5 bucks and boy was it a boomy, scooped mess.
Also agree with this a lot. A lot of the time, an SM57 on-axis, closest possible to the speaker, and a couple of inches off the dust cap just works best.
He's trying to get an "amp in the room" sound with mics and it just doesn't work I think.
I don't think that's a very good thing. Again, I really like his videos and I watch all of them. But I do think the tones he gets in a lot of his videos where he is micing a real cab need a bit more work. I mean how hard is it to find a sweet spot and stick to micing a cab in that position in a studio atmosphere? He's usually using the same three or four cabs. It'll take one or two good sessions to work out which mic sounds best in what scenario and position. Anyway, this shouldn't turn into an Ola thread! But point is, it's not that hard to consistently find a good mic position if one is regularly working in the same controlled environment. Ola doesn't seem to be doing that and it makes his videos sound not as great as they can be. His earlier work is a testament to the fact that he can do better with very little effort!
