This recording setup refers to following amps: Fender Bassman Head and Fender Bandmaster Reverb Head

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The cabinets were closely miked with 2 Shure SM58 from the front. Both mikes were routed through a mixing console and then fed into my old Yamaha 4 track cassette recorder. Tracks 3 and 4 were fed with the backing track from a portable CD Player. At home a little room reverb was added and the internal equalizer of the multi-tracker was adjusted fairly neutral. The stereo signal was then digitised by the PC soundcard via n-tracks software. Besides normalising the signal , no other sound editing was done to the tracks.

Both amps were used without power soaks (direct amp to speaker connection).

A compressor ( Boss / Ibanez) was used with just a little compression adjusted, to get most out of the clean channel (it adds a very nice sweetness).

A digital reverb unit was connected to the parallel Fx loop for the Bassman, Super Amps and Bandmaster Reverb were using their own spring reverb.