Amateur Mic Placement, And How To Avoid It

Here’s how I used to approach mic placement in my home studio when I was getting started: I’d put the mic where I thought it should go, get some signal, and then say “Well it sounds alright to me,” and I’d hit the record button. But the big problem here is that I was doing what so many of us beginners do: we settle.
We put up a mic on our guitar amp and say “Well it sounds like a guitar ...