studio session something

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.