Recording Trickery.
I am fly; not only am I a mogger, I'm also in a band and play producer when we record. We are a moderately well-equipped bunch; between my drummer and I, we've got a slew of microphones, two eight-tracks, a mixer, and more wires than we could possibly know what to do with.Lately we've been recording a lot of stuff; and along the way we've been figuring out stupid little ways of getting the sounds we want. I was getting irritated while laying down a very up-tempo guitar track today, as I was playing a power-chord rhythm guitar part high on the neck and kept slipping with my pick and hitting the B string, getting a bell tone I did not want. I ended up wrapping the B and high E strings with Kleenex and got a track I was happy with. What sorts of bizzarre techniques give you the sounds you want? I'm curious to learn. It's always the weird things and unexpected fixes that give you what you want -- after all, no one close-miked drums until the Beatles did it and it sounded better than anyone could've expected.
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