11 Apr
2007
11 Apr
'07
9:51 a.m.
Arnold Krille wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 11. April 2007 schrieb Robin Gareus:
wow you are fast! or were you referring to past recordings?
If your guitar has a built-in pick up, record it
as well. adding *a
little* of those other mics will greatly improve the ambience of many
home- recordings!
I tried that on the first track of guitar we recorded. The line-signal is very
good for stage-use but in the studio (ie. my living room) compared to mic
signals from the tube-mic or one of my condensors its just noisy crap... My next step was to use the condensor at the hole in
the corpse with 30-40cm
distance and the tube-mic at the neck.
But after some more track we went for just the tube-mic positioned at 30-40cm
distance from the point where the corpse goes into the neck and aimed a bit
at the hole. Gives a wonderful sound with concert acoustics and western
acoustics (ovation and others)...
right. 90% of a recording is a good mic setup! - 9% for good musicians &
engineering. 1% lol.
Thumb rules:
* half a meter away
* aim between "the hole" and "the last fret".
* moving towards the bridge -> a more brilliant sound.
But instead of using come cheap room-effects or Flangers: add "a
little" of the other mics - maybe even phase-invert (like the mixed
pickup settings on a Strat.) - i'm not into Ovations or Western-guitar
but into Keziah Jones or Ani DiFranco sound...
A SM58 is great for adding a high-freq "hackbrett" taint.. or a more
volume in the 2nd Verse... - and come on: recording a 2nd opinion Mic
does not hurt: disk-space is so cheap :)
I usually don't EQ the "tube"-mic! but filter the other mics.
I use compressors them *before* digitizing; but that's just because my
pre-amp & analog equipment is better than the cheap DAC. - for a
high-end studio equipment pre-recording compression is not an issue.
#robin