Punchy Compressed Guitar
by Ross Brown
Gretsch Duo Jet with DynaSonic pickups through a Fender Deluxe Reverb with a Celestion Greenback. Both pickups wide open, tone wide open, amp on 3-4 volume on second input of the Vibrato channel with spring reverb and vibrato engaged.
Bidirectional Ribbon
Placed about 10" from center of speaker, on-axis.
Solid State
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Compressor
RMS setting.
- Threshold: -22.1dB
- Attack: 9.47ms
- Release: 20ms
- Ratio: 3.12
- Knee: 0
- Model: FB
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Reverb
Tweaked “Bright Room” preset
- Early Reflections: Spin: 6.93 (amount) at .11Hz (rate)
- Predelay: 5ms
- 70% density
- A lot of high frequency diffusion
- Decay time: 500ms
- “Reflect”: 6 dB
Here’s a screenshot of the settings
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Reverb
A secondary reverb for a darker decay.
- Hi Cut at 949 Hz
- Pretty intense “Spin” settings on the Early Reflections
- Decay Time: 932 ms
- “Reflect”: 3 dB
Here’s a screenshot of the settings
I had the amp’s bass control at 1 or 0 to avoid low-end breakup, knowing the Fat Head would add a lot of beautiful smooth low end to the recording. Definitely love this mic on electric guitar.