Metal Mixing Bowl in Front of Guitar Amp

[melveyr]

Nice free FX for when recording. So if you have the kind of microphone that you can hang over your amp (like a sennheiser) then use that, then placing a metal mixing bowl (rounder is better) over the microphone then put a blanket over the amp. This does a couple of things

1) something about the metal mixing bowl with the mic inside of it focuses the tone more, reducing muddiness. for my wurlitzer it brings out the nasal/plucky parts of the tone that almost remind me of banjo. maybe it's a phasing thing

2) when you get the wurlitzer to bark it pushes a lot of air through the amp and you get almost like a plate reverb affect because the metal bowl will vibrate

3) removes any bad room sound

4) allows you to crank your amp a bit louder without bothering people 

try it out! especially for wurli!