Guitar Cabinet Mic Stand

As to why this mic is so adored on electric guitar one theory is that the low end rolloff at 200hz compensates well for the proximity effect from close miking a guitar cabinet.

Guitar cabinet mic stand.

But regardless of why the shure sm57 is so insanely popular on electric guitar and so cheap that it s the only option i recommend for beginners. For example if you re searching for multiple stands in order to ensure everyone in your group as their own separate stand start with the musician s gear tripod mic stand with fixed boom 10 pack. This gave me lots of flexibility. For these multi mic setups i used the excellent latch lake xtra boom with four arms attached to a single mic stand.

A minimal investment compared to all your other guitar gear can yield drastic improvements in your tone. Carefully position your mic for the best tone by buying a mic stand for your guitar mic. Guitar amps are traditionally associated with close mic ing and even the slightest change in position can drastically affect the captured tone. The amplifier settings are shown in the photos below.

Don and i spent hours experimenting with mic positions on cabinets read about it in my article the importance of mic placement for guitar amps and used that research to guide our mic placement on the prs j mod cabinet starting with the sm57 patched into a chandler limited tg channel mark ii mic preamp we determined.