March 15th

March 15^th

Today I used the editing suite, because all of the over studios were occupied. My intentions for today were to record some basic percussion for my 2^nd FMP. I chose to record a Bongo, Wood block and a Tambourine. I already had midi parts of each of these instruments laid out on my composition already, but I thought it would be a good idea to have each of these played in as live instruments rather than samples. To record the bongo I used the SM57 placed quite closely to the skin of the drum. I chose to use the SM57, as I wasn’t after too much detail in the sound, I wanted to capture just the effect of two consecutive rhythmic hits, rather then the noises and ambience created by the bongos.

For the Tambourine and Wood Block, I used the c1000, as this microphone is a condenser, so therefore more sensitive. Which is what I required for these to instruments, as I wanted to pick up all the details and accents occurred when playing each of these. For both of these the microphone placement was quite similar, I set the microphone up in one corner and played the each of the instruments about half a metre away away.