Hey guys,so as the title suggest, I'm planning on taking on my first acousitc recording and need a few pointers or mic'ing technique, and room selection.
THE SCRATCH TRACK Will Be recorded using
-DI/ TS on my acoustic-electric
-1 Mic somewhere between the guitar's soundhole, and vocalist's soundhole lol.
(The scratch track quality isn't a huge concern of mine, i'm just using it for refrencing guitar fills and other junk like that. I'll be comping all the seperately recorded pars later.)
THE PROJECT WILL CONSIST OF
-Vocals/ Rapping (Probaly recorded farily dry/ with very little to no room ambience. Will ad artificial reverb later)
-Acoustic Guitar Finger picked and strummed. THink something like "More than Words" by Extreme (D.I./TS into my MBOX 2, and maybe close mic'd with a low end roll off on the mic) Hoping somebody will have some pointers ont mic'quing the guitar to get a nice full sound.
-Electric guitar solos and fills. (Recorded D.I./ TS Since i don't have an amp)
-MIDI DRUMS, BASS, and KEYS Pretty Straight Forward. I have most of the midi
parts composed already.
Thinking about buying some drum plugins for this project. If any body has any suggestions. I'm thinking something like tooktrack's Superior Drumer 2.0 ?
THE MICROPHONE I'LL MOST LIKELY BE USING FOR THE WHOLE PROJECT:
STERLING AUIDIO ST 59 condenser mic. Has a -10db pad, cardiod, figure 8 and onni pattern, and a low end roll off
VOCALS - Cradiod pattern, and maybe a low end roll off.
ACOUSTIC GUITAR -Low end rolls off (most likely, so it won't sound too boomy).
Not sure if I should use a cardiod pattern, or embrase my room's shitty acousitics with a figure 8 or omni pattern.
ROOM OPTIONS:
-MY ROOM
NOT TREATED! However , I do have 2 beds (don't ask lol), carpet, a nice thick blanket covering my bed room window, and some other small home furnishing , which I think should help kill some of the unwanted air and low end.
To avoid the highs getting drowned out by the furniture/ muffled sound, I usually face the back fo my mic (in cardiod pattern) at about a 45 degree angle from my closet's somewhat hallow door (about 1 and a half feet in distance from the closet door) . This, I believe, helps me capture a little bit of the room's reflections. I could be wrong, but it seems to work for me.
My fear is that the guitar will sound too muffled when recorded in my room.
-Friend's home studio/ Booth
One of my class mate's has a decent home set up (some neumann mics, nice pre amps, a real vocal booth, not a makeshift closet.)
My Concerns
-She charges $20/hour (not terrible). But since I'd be tracking myself without a session engineer, it'd be twice the work, and also cost atleast twice as much out of pocket.
- i've hear good and bad things about recording booths. I'm not sure how much justice a booth would pay to the acoustic guitar parts. or if they would sound too unatrual/ muffled in a booth. Maybe I would try recording the vocals there, if my home recordings don't work out too well.
Vocal Booth At School
- I have access to a nice booth at school, which isolates sound pretty decently. The only problem is that we have some internet servers in the rooms, whose hisss can clearly be heard in recrodings. Not sure If i wanna have to gate the performance, or really deal with hissing durring post production at all.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated
THE SCRATCH TRACK Will Be recorded using
-DI/ TS on my acoustic-electric
-1 Mic somewhere between the guitar's soundhole, and vocalist's soundhole lol.
(The scratch track quality isn't a huge concern of mine, i'm just using it for refrencing guitar fills and other junk like that. I'll be comping all the seperately recorded pars later.)
THE PROJECT WILL CONSIST OF
-Vocals/ Rapping (Probaly recorded farily dry/ with very little to no room ambience. Will ad artificial reverb later)
-Acoustic Guitar Finger picked and strummed. THink something like "More than Words" by Extreme (D.I./TS into my MBOX 2, and maybe close mic'd with a low end roll off on the mic) Hoping somebody will have some pointers ont mic'quing the guitar to get a nice full sound.
-Electric guitar solos and fills. (Recorded D.I./ TS Since i don't have an amp)
-MIDI DRUMS, BASS, and KEYS Pretty Straight Forward. I have most of the midi
parts composed already.
Thinking about buying some drum plugins for this project. If any body has any suggestions. I'm thinking something like tooktrack's Superior Drumer 2.0 ?
THE MICROPHONE I'LL MOST LIKELY BE USING FOR THE WHOLE PROJECT:
STERLING AUIDIO ST 59 condenser mic. Has a -10db pad, cardiod, figure 8 and onni pattern, and a low end roll off
VOCALS - Cradiod pattern, and maybe a low end roll off.
ACOUSTIC GUITAR -Low end rolls off (most likely, so it won't sound too boomy).
Not sure if I should use a cardiod pattern, or embrase my room's shitty acousitics with a figure 8 or omni pattern.
ROOM OPTIONS:
-MY ROOM
NOT TREATED! However , I do have 2 beds (don't ask lol), carpet, a nice thick blanket covering my bed room window, and some other small home furnishing , which I think should help kill some of the unwanted air and low end.
To avoid the highs getting drowned out by the furniture/ muffled sound, I usually face the back fo my mic (in cardiod pattern) at about a 45 degree angle from my closet's somewhat hallow door (about 1 and a half feet in distance from the closet door) . This, I believe, helps me capture a little bit of the room's reflections. I could be wrong, but it seems to work for me.
My fear is that the guitar will sound too muffled when recorded in my room.
-Friend's home studio/ Booth
One of my class mate's has a decent home set up (some neumann mics, nice pre amps, a real vocal booth, not a makeshift closet.)
My Concerns
-She charges $20/hour (not terrible). But since I'd be tracking myself without a session engineer, it'd be twice the work, and also cost atleast twice as much out of pocket.
- i've hear good and bad things about recording booths. I'm not sure how much justice a booth would pay to the acoustic guitar parts. or if they would sound too unatrual/ muffled in a booth. Maybe I would try recording the vocals there, if my home recordings don't work out too well.
Vocal Booth At School
- I have access to a nice booth at school, which isolates sound pretty decently. The only problem is that we have some internet servers in the rooms, whose hisss can clearly be heard in recrodings. Not sure If i wanna have to gate the performance, or really deal with hissing durring post production at all.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated
