Arnold Krille wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 11. April 2007 schrieb Robin Gareus: >> 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... wow you are fast! or were you referring to past recordings? > 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
