Gents-
I am experiencing a strange aural phenomenon while trying to record an Alesis Andromeda thru a Carvin keyboard amp.
I will give a little info- I am tracking through a Mackie 1604VLZ into Samplitude. I am tracking w/ a band right now KBD, Bass and drums. The keyboard amp has direct outs that I have been using mostly, they sound really good. But the other night the keyboard player wanted to a different sound from one of her tracks, something less DI sounding. So I though “no big deal, the amp sound really good I will just throw up some mics and voila! cool mic’d sound.” I was quite wrong. The amp has 2 10” speakers and a 15” and a little tweeter up top. So I put a 57 in one 10 and a Sennheiser 421 on the other (to compare later), a beta 52 and an AT atm25 on the 15”. I also put a ADK A51 (lrg diaphragm condenser) about 2’ back from the amp AND ran a stereo DI signal.
The DI signal as usual sounded really good. But each mic either together or by itself sounded very phasey and muddy. So I tried reversing phase on the channels in different combos and they all sounded bad and phasey no matter what. Totally unusable. So after an hour of moving them around and rerecording them I finally gave up and just put up my two Earthworks TC30k’s (matched pair), thinking that these are the best and most neutral mics I have, I set them about 6’ away from the amp in an XY pattern, recorded it and got the same results weird phasey dull keys.
I mean, we are very happy w/ the DI sound but this has become a bit of a personal issue at this point, I should be able to record this amp!
Am I totally missing something here? Is there some physics anomaly that I am not taking into consideration?
Any help is GREATLY appreciated
Twonky