Fender Super Reverb

Hi,
today I made some tests with a Meazzi ribbon mic, which allegedly was a pretty common mic in the 60s. I´ve got it some weeks ago in bad condition, but a "mic doctor" I know repaired it.
Looks like this:
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I set it up in front of my Fender 1974 Super Reverb with original Jensen speakers. Clean sound, vibrato channel.
It picks up a very fat sound, the typical Fender highs are pushed back quite a bit.

What do you think about the profile? Does this mic do justice to the Fender?
I like it with brighter guitars, my vintage Strat sound fat, my P90s equipped Thinlie Tele delivers a nice jazzy tone.

Have fun

thank you all for checking out my Fender!

Quote from DonPetersen

very nice!

I also love ribbon mics!

thanks!

this Meazzi mic needs a very loud source. You have to turn up the mic preamp´s gain very high, to get a reasonable level. Recording for example an acoustic guitar with it gets very noisy...but loud guitar amps are quite allright for the job
So far this is the fattest mic I ever had.

Quote from waraba

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Any chance you do a profile of your fantastic Shiva (my favorite is the Clean+ setting) with the vintage mike ?

unfortunately not
A friend of mine was the owner of the mighty Shiva and sold it literally the day after I profiled it! I know, it´s a shame, but he got himself a nice upgrade: a brand new Ecstacy

I uploaded another profile with the Meazzi mic, this time I used my little Bugera Vintage 5 valve combo, a very cool amp for cheap!
The amp´s got a new Eminence 8" speaker some time ago, which sorted out the amp´s only weakness, the really honky sounding stock speaker.
The Meazzi mic delivered a fat sound again! I like it

Check it out and tell me what you think!

Quote from DonPetersen

My 'sweetspot' for a ribbon right now is dead center and about 28cm from the grille.

Where do you position the mic relative to the speaker?

thanks

I placed it slightly off center and about 10cm from the grille.

When I´m in the studio next time I´ll try to go further away form the speaker, but right now I only could do some tests at home, where I cannot turn the amps up as much as I´d love to