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Originally Posted by timgman
Kølabrennern has it right.
a sure sm57 close and a large diaphram for ambient room. I'd put the large diaphram just off axis of the same cone though. so there aren't any phasing issues.
rock on Kølabrennern
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I have a good teacher, haha. Anyway, in the picture where you see only the single, big mic; that's the setup we most often use. However, using a Neumann mic at thousands and thousands of dollars in price is not very budget friendly, so the SM57 and a simple large diaphragm should do the trick just fine. The reason behind placing mics at different cones is because all of the speaker elements have their slightly own character. The phase problem is easily adjustable most of the time, when one is in the control room listening and the other is standing by in the recording room, ready to adjust either mic a few millimeters.
Soloben: Try angling the mic many different ways. And as mentioned earlier, recording at least two tracks and panning them left-right is alpha and omega here.
Edit: Or just try giving up micing your amp and test some free ampsim VST plug-ins. SimuAnalog Guitar Suite is really neat, and completely free of charge:
http://www.simulanalog.org/guitarsuite.htm