Week 8 (Third Session)

This week we recorded the guitar and trumpet track in the multitrack studio. The trumpet track was played on ukulele by me. We stared by setting up the microphones at different distances from the vox valvetronix amplifier. The guitar used was a Ibanez Artcore. On the amplifier we added further gain for a more crunchy rock sound.In terms of microphones we used 2 SM57s which were set up 5 cm from the amp and were perfectly in phase. We also used an AKG 414 condensor mic in omni directional  mode to capture the sound from about 2 and a half metres away.

 

 

 

 

 

We put a wall between the mics and Robin the guitar player so the microphones didnt pick up the sound of Robins fingers sliding on the frets. We took a few recordings of the guitar track and recorded over the mistakes on pro tools using quick punch. To overdub the guitar track we changed the top input to the main recorded input in 4, 5 and 6. Once this was done we had 2 guitar tracks playing at the same time which gave the guitar track a more full and rich sound. With the ukulele we used only the AKG 414 in cardioid mode to capture one track which I did first time.