Hi guys,
I recently got together with a friend to have a go at making a demo tape/CD to send out of his brother's music. The guy sings and plays electric and electro-acoustic guitar. We want to record a few tracks, some of each style
We have been given use of our school theatre, though not designed for recording, it has the best sound equipment around that we know of. We have:
12 channel mixer
3 x good omnidirectional XLR mics
1 x Shotgun mic
1 x radio shack flat mike
Minidisc Recorder
Tape Recorder
DAT Recorder
Computer with Cool Edit Pro, Soundblaster 128 Gold card and CD Writer
Feedback defeat rack unit
Effects (reverb mainly) rack unit
At home I have got Cubase 5 VST/32
We also have all the equipment for monitoing the sound from the control room, and for supplying onstage monitors.
This is all great stuff, but where the hell do we start?!! I have absolutely no idea! Do we get him to play the guitar track without singing, then sing without guitar while playing back the guitar recording to him on headphones? how do we record the guitar? Should we do reverb live on the effects unit? or afterwards in Cool Edit or even later in Cubase? Should we record the parts on minidisc, tape, DAT, cd or as WAVs on the PC?
Many questions I know, but any guidance on the order in which to do things, how do to particular things would be greatly appriciated.
Kind Regards,
Seb
I recently got together with a friend to have a go at making a demo tape/CD to send out of his brother's music. The guy sings and plays electric and electro-acoustic guitar. We want to record a few tracks, some of each style
We have been given use of our school theatre, though not designed for recording, it has the best sound equipment around that we know of. We have:
12 channel mixer
3 x good omnidirectional XLR mics
1 x Shotgun mic
1 x radio shack flat mike
Minidisc Recorder
Tape Recorder
DAT Recorder
Computer with Cool Edit Pro, Soundblaster 128 Gold card and CD Writer
Feedback defeat rack unit
Effects (reverb mainly) rack unit
At home I have got Cubase 5 VST/32
We also have all the equipment for monitoing the sound from the control room, and for supplying onstage monitors.
This is all great stuff, but where the hell do we start?!! I have absolutely no idea! Do we get him to play the guitar track without singing, then sing without guitar while playing back the guitar recording to him on headphones? how do we record the guitar? Should we do reverb live on the effects unit? or afterwards in Cool Edit or even later in Cubase? Should we record the parts on minidisc, tape, DAT, cd or as WAVs on the PC?
Many questions I know, but any guidance on the order in which to do things, how do to particular things would be greatly appriciated.
Kind Regards,
Seb