Monday 1st February

Monday 1^st February

Prior to today’s studio session, I done some research on different types of microphone placements and microphones that I could use for recording. I considered loads of different placements and microphones. My initial idea was to use a single SM57 placed at the sound hole, but I decided not to go with this, as it wouldn’t capture the sounds that I wanted, the SM57 gave a warm flat sound, I decided this wouldn’t suit the mix. As I was after something more bright and crispy, which was more possible to capture with a condenser microphone, so I decided to use 2 AKG C451, to capture a stereo recording one placed at the sound hole and one half way down the fret. So that they captured both the main sound and the sound of the fingers brushing back a forth whilst playing the notes.

Today’s studio session was quite hectic all 3 of us made use of having the guitarist in the studio, first I recorded, and had Ruben and Dom as my sound engineers, and we alternated when it was each other’s turn to record.

Me and Ruben both used an acoustic guitar and went for a similar set up. In the live room we created a kind of isolation chamber, in case the drum kit in the room affected the natural reverb.

The recording process for mine didn’t take too long; Dan had thought of two ideas for the composition, a rhythm section and lead guitar section, I recorded full 56 bars for the lead guitar, so that a had a lot of audio to select from when it came to the arrangement process.

Ruben already had a guitar section laid out in midi, which he wanted Dan to recreate.

Dom wanted to record an electric guitar, this involved us changing the studio set up that we had, we kept the isolation chamber and closed mic’d a guitar amp with an SM57 microphone

I will post some images soon of each of these set ups.