So unfortunately, I had an unexpected financial thing come up and it makes a lot more sense for me to go home a week early instead of staying until next Friday, which means tomorrow is my last day at my internship. This is unexpected and I didn’t know it was going to happen until yesterday. Luckily my boss and colleagues are completely ok with it and understand. I’ll spend today and tomorrow finishing up my impulse responses and tying up loose ends with my living situation.
Today I started experimenting with using a Celestion Vintage 30 loudspeaker as a microphone. I reverse wired it and boosted the signal with a mic preamp and actually got some pretty interesting results. The same method is used for the Yamaha Subkick mic, which is used primarily on kick drums. The goal is to try it in different places around the room to get a thick ambient room tone, and then turn it into an IR. So far it’s worked fairly well as long as it’s blended and EQ’ed properly. Even with the Celestion fairly far away from the guitar cab it still picks up an incredible amount of bass around 90 Hz, and can sound muddy if just thrown next to another guitar track.
These Celestion IRs will probably be the last ones I’ll do depending on if we can get another amp in the studio tomorrow.
Glad they were able to be flexible with your end date. It is important to leave the internship on good terms, because you never know when you might need a reference from them OR they may have a job open up. If you leave on a bad note, they will surely remember.