Thread It's time to ask for help
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Well, not to rub it in, I use a closet in my basement studio. 
A good first mic would be an SM57- it's kind an industry standard, especially for recording guitars. That's what I use.
In all honesty, though, you can get a decent tone going direct. A mic will sound better, but if you spend some time tweeking your patches on your processor, you can get a decent direct tone out of most. I didn't think the tone you had was all that big a part of the overall problem. It was decent, especially for the style of music you're playing.
I would work on the overall recording and mix tips I gave you above and see how much improvement you can make with your existing setup before I started spending money- especially if recording a live amp isn't very practical for your current situation.
The tunes on the gzsmuzik website in my sig line were all recorded direct. I used an old Digitech RP2000 (one of the first modelling guitar processors). I think the guitars sound pretty decent. The tunes off my blues cd listed at the very bottom of my sig file were all recorded with the SM57 and the closet. I think they sound better overall, but those mixes are quite different because I wanted them to have more of a live feel. Give them a listen- it's an interesting comparison.
A good first mic would be an SM57- it's kind an industry standard, especially for recording guitars. That's what I use.
In all honesty, though, you can get a decent tone going direct. A mic will sound better, but if you spend some time tweeking your patches on your processor, you can get a decent direct tone out of most. I didn't think the tone you had was all that big a part of the overall problem. It was decent, especially for the style of music you're playing.
I would work on the overall recording and mix tips I gave you above and see how much improvement you can make with your existing setup before I started spending money- especially if recording a live amp isn't very practical for your current situation.
The tunes on the gzsmuzik website in my sig line were all recorded direct. I used an old Digitech RP2000 (one of the first modelling guitar processors). I think the guitars sound pretty decent. The tunes off my blues cd listed at the very bottom of my sig file were all recorded with the SM57 and the closet. I think they sound better overall, but those mixes are quite different because I wanted them to have more of a live feel. Give them a listen- it's an interesting comparison.
The Axeman (##(===> Cuts From My New Blues CD
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