Trash & Heat

|May 2, 2009 | Gear

What’s that? Using a microphone you found in the trash to record guitars? Well, why not? Back when Sean and I ran The Saint, I found an Electro-Voice 635A in the giant ( I mean giant, all the way up to the ceiling ) mound of trash we cleared out of the back room. It turns out that this mic was considered a kind of secret weapon on guitar amps in the 70s and 80s. This particular one sounds sort of okay, but it doesn’t really do anything that standard mic choices don’t do. Who knows how much liquor has been spilled on it through the ages, though.