Recording Trickery.

Posted about 5 years ago

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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Seizure 17 says You could also use an equalizer to cancel out the B frequency (do really narrow, though, or it will sound like total garbage.) On the other hand, that's probably only a good idea if, other than the b-string, your playing was so phenomenal you can't repeat it. If you can replay the part, it's probably best to work on getting it right. even with the b silenced, weird noises will still leak through.

Permalink posted 01/01/2007
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erikdidriksen says ** laughs ** You obviously have never heard my guitar playing! I'm not worried about not being able to duplicate something. The only reason I'm not working on getting it right is because we're recording on extremely limited time -- we're all in college and we're only together for short spurts of time. My eight-track alone doesn't transfer over to my computer. At any rate, I hope people don't limit their items of interest merely to my little example. I'm interested in everything and anything...

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Seizure 17 says Personally, I'm not a very innovative engineer...but there are a lot of great ideas in Recording Musician Magazine. It's been very helpful to me (although I'm still glad to have somebody else doing the toil on our next release.)

Permalink posted 01/03/2007

Recording Trickery.

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