This week we layed down my acoustic guitar tracks. We started by creating a booth infront of the window and set up two groove tubes in xy position, the reason for this mic choice was i feel the GT's pick up a nice clear warm tone, far brighter and clearer than the c1000's and in the xy position it would pick the the strumming of the guitar, the movement on the fretboard and the entire range of sound, giving a complete stereo field. On top of this i used a shure sm-57 on the sound hole to pick up the warms and just the sound of the whole and then an Akg 414 to pick up more of an overall sound, we played around with the position of and polar patterns of the mic and eventually decided on a figure 8 pattern and this would pick up the sterofield and create a slight delay for a bigger sound. Once we had it patched through i started to mess around with compression, i started by compressing the 57 and 414 but eventually decided on compressing the groove tubes as this gave the whole overall sound a brigter feel. Having several free tracks i decided the patch through the reverb machine and record these onto track 7 and 8. However the 1st time we recorded, the channels with the reverb recorded the click leading to me needing the patch the reverb through on auxilery channels 3 and 4. I played around with several plates but eventually decided on a medium rich plate.
The actual recording of the track didnt take long at all as there are only 4 guitar parts throughout the track, this allowed me to record several takes to give me more to play around with during mixing, which will allow me to use alot of panning and different reverbs to give my mix a 3-D professional sound.
I feel i got a decent level of recording and with the compression and reverb i got a nice full sound and with more work and levelling during mixing i can get a nice sound however i feel let down by the cheaper acoustic guitars, although i like the tone of the guitar, when you begin to play it hard it creates a chuggy sound, and as im doing a rather soft song with female vocals im not sure how this will work. If time permits and i can get a nicer acoustic i would like to re-record the rhythm parts as these are the parts with the chugs but i am more than happy with the melodies.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Studio session cinq
This week we had an extermly productive session nearly completing laying down an entire track. Once again we had a lack of a drummer so we got straight into guitar tracking. WE mic'd up the line 6 spider with a Shure Sm-57 front and back, i chose these mic's as i feel they capture the entire range and pick up the warmth of the track. The mic on the front picks up more of a general sound and the 57 on the back picks up a fairly bassy sound which gives the guitar tracks depth. We routed these through to channels 1 and 2 and patched the TLA compressor in. We allowed 3-5 gain reduction as this compresses the raw sound to give a more controlled and warmer sound but leaves enough raw material to use when mixing.
Whilst recording we had Dan sitting in the control room too make communication easier and allowed him to hear what we were hearing in the studio.
we managed to get all the guitars layed down and double tracked and were left with another session, Whilst Mary-Beth and reece set up mics and created a booth me and Dan Midi'd all the drum parts.
For the booth we used to fake walls either side the mic and had these positioned infront of the glass to allow for maximum communication during the vocals. We set up the booth to improve the room acoustics, this would lead to us getting a rawer vocal sound and not picking up too uch of the room reverb, this would allow us to be able to manipulate it later as you cant delete reverb, but you can add it later. We set up the AKG 414 with a cordioid polar pattern. The AKG was selected as it has a high sound pressure level capability and wide dynamic range to pick up the entire vocal range. The cordioid pattern was selected as it would pick up all the sound from the front of the mic but wouldnt pick up the reflection from the glass window behind it.
Whilst Dan was warming up his vocals we decided to make the most of the time and started laying down gang shouts. We surrounded the mic and layed down the shouts and started layering them up to pad them out and make them sound alot bigger.
Whilst recording we had Dan sitting in the control room too make communication easier and allowed him to hear what we were hearing in the studio.
we managed to get all the guitars layed down and double tracked and were left with another session, Whilst Mary-Beth and reece set up mics and created a booth me and Dan Midi'd all the drum parts.
For the booth we used to fake walls either side the mic and had these positioned infront of the glass to allow for maximum communication during the vocals. We set up the booth to improve the room acoustics, this would lead to us getting a rawer vocal sound and not picking up too uch of the room reverb, this would allow us to be able to manipulate it later as you cant delete reverb, but you can add it later. We set up the AKG 414 with a cordioid polar pattern. The AKG was selected as it has a high sound pressure level capability and wide dynamic range to pick up the entire vocal range. The cordioid pattern was selected as it would pick up all the sound from the front of the mic but wouldnt pick up the reflection from the glass window behind it.
Whilst Dan was warming up his vocals we decided to make the most of the time and started laying down gang shouts. We surrounded the mic and layed down the shouts and started layering them up to pad them out and make them sound alot bigger.
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