hi,
I have encountered a slight(I hope) problem in some acoustic recordings I have been doing. I have tracked acoustic guitar, and vocals and a whole bunch of harmonies, done to a click track for 7 tunes.
The problem is, I was a bit of a goose and the guitar whilst being in tune with itself is probably about a quarter of a tone flat from standard tuning. ie. the low e string is somewhere between eflat and e. All the vocal tracks have been done to these slightly flat guitar tracks. Damn new strings!
Now this in itself normally wouldnt bother me, as long as the guitars in tune with itself, but I'd like to add some other instrumentation, namely keyboards.
I was hoping for some advice as to what I should do. This presents a problem because obviously the tuning of keyboards is very precise.
questions goin through my head are;
1) Could I shift the pitch of the entire performance without affecting the tempo? if I did this, would the vocal still sound natural or would I get a chipmunk effect? Furthermore, would I get a better result by running the entire mix through a pitch shifter or should the vocals and guitar be run through seperately.
2) Would I get a better result by somehow shifting the pitch of the keyboards? We would be using a nord electro. If i did shift the pitch of the keyboards, when recording how could I make the performer comfortable to play in a situation where what he's playing to is out of tune?
3) Should I bin the lot and start from scratch?(I'd be very dissappointed if i had to do this because the acoustic and vox were done using great gear and i paid for the studio time)
I realise thats a lot of questions but any advice would be much appreciated, I am a bit of an amateur with all this.
My main concern is that i want the recordings to sound natural.
Thanks for any advice,
Carl
I have encountered a slight(I hope) problem in some acoustic recordings I have been doing. I have tracked acoustic guitar, and vocals and a whole bunch of harmonies, done to a click track for 7 tunes.
The problem is, I was a bit of a goose and the guitar whilst being in tune with itself is probably about a quarter of a tone flat from standard tuning. ie. the low e string is somewhere between eflat and e. All the vocal tracks have been done to these slightly flat guitar tracks. Damn new strings!
Now this in itself normally wouldnt bother me, as long as the guitars in tune with itself, but I'd like to add some other instrumentation, namely keyboards.
I was hoping for some advice as to what I should do. This presents a problem because obviously the tuning of keyboards is very precise.
questions goin through my head are;
1) Could I shift the pitch of the entire performance without affecting the tempo? if I did this, would the vocal still sound natural or would I get a chipmunk effect? Furthermore, would I get a better result by running the entire mix through a pitch shifter or should the vocals and guitar be run through seperately.
2) Would I get a better result by somehow shifting the pitch of the keyboards? We would be using a nord electro. If i did shift the pitch of the keyboards, when recording how could I make the performer comfortable to play in a situation where what he's playing to is out of tune?
3) Should I bin the lot and start from scratch?(I'd be very dissappointed if i had to do this because the acoustic and vox were done using great gear and i paid for the studio time)
I realise thats a lot of questions but any advice would be much appreciated, I am a bit of an amateur with all this.
My main concern is that i want the recordings to sound natural.
Thanks for any advice,
Carl