Da, sada se ta pojačala ozvučuju mikrofonima. Kako to tačno izgleda, ne zna se jer Tool neprestano šire dezinformacije o opremi koju koriste. Treba ih razumeti, ipak oni žive od toga što samo oni zvuče tako kako zvuče. Na ovoj se sličici vidi bar deo opreme u studiju za vreme snimanja "Lateralus"-a:
Imaš intervju sa Džoom Barezijem na
http://mixonline.com/recording/proje...ays/index.html, gde on priča kako je ozvučavao i snimao Adamova pojačala na "10 000 Days":
"I usually used stock miking. For me, that's a Shure SM57 and a Sennheiser 421 on every cabinet. The third mic could be anything that I felt the sound needed more of.”
The signal chain for tracking guitar was a bit complex. “Adam would play into whatever pedals he needed,” Barresi says. “That signal then went into a Systematic Systems Splitter. Then it would go to between three and five heads. The signal from the heads went to their own individual cabinets. Each cabinet had two or three microphones on it. Then all the microphones came back to the console, and they were blended down as separated for each amp. The Diezel amp went to its own track. The Marshall amp went to its own track. The third track was a blend of the Bogner and the Rivera, or whatever I liked for the song. And that would be one take — three tracks of guitar.”