My Guide Vox and Guide Guitar Dilema

[Muddy T-Bone]

Typically when I record, I lay down a guide vocal on one track, and a guide guitar on another track going DI into the interface. Then I use those guide tracks which are 100% isolated from one another, and lay down a keeper vox and a keeper guitar part and build from there.

This weekend, I wasn't getting the right "feeling" for the song using the method described above, and decided to lay down the guide guitar and guide vox using 1 mic for both my acoustic and voice.

I have 2 problems that I'm looking for suggestions on.

1)The problem here the recorded performance of both guide parts are pretty good. Not 100%, but say 94%, and they are very useable as a building block.
2) The problems with building the recording using the guide track as the base are A) since I used 1 mic, I can't pan either the guitar or the vox so I'm stuck. B) Mic placement was not optimal for either guitar or vox, so the recording quality is so-so.

My thought was to proceed as I normally do and record a keeper track for both vox and guitar, and build from there as usual, and then hope that I could back down fader considerably on the guide track and use that as a double for guitar and vox. I typically double guitar parts anyway, so that may be a timesaver for me.

Any other thoughts suggestions?

 

[RAMI]

Mic placement was not optimal for either guitar or vox, so the recording quality is so-so.

Then why do you even want it in your recording? A guide track is usually scrapped once the "real" tracks are recorded. I'm trying to understand why you're so intent on keeping it in your recording. If it's to save time, it's kind of a lazy way of doing things, while getting less than the best possible results. Besides, what are you saving, 5 minutes?

 

[PTravel]

Typically when I record, I lay down a guide vocal on one track, and a guide guitar on another track going DI into the interface. Then I use those guide tracks which are 100% isolated from one another, and lay down a keeper vox and a keeper guitar part and build from there.

This weekend, I wasn't getting the right "feeling" for the song using the method described above, and decided to lay down the guide guitar and guide vox using 1 mic for both my acoustic and voice.

I have 2 problems that I'm looking for suggestions on.

1)The problem here the recorded performance of both guide parts are pretty good. Not 100%, but say 94%, and they are very useable as a building block.
2) The problems with building the recording using the guide track as the base are A) since I used 1 mic, I can't pan either the guitar or the vox so I'm stuck. B) Mic placement was not optimal for either guitar or vox, so the recording quality is so-so.

My thought was to proceed as I normally do and record a keeper track for both vox and guitar, and build from there as usual, and then hope that I could back down fader considerably on the guide track and use that as a double for guitar and vox. I typically double guitar parts anyway, so that may be a timesaver for me.

Any other thoughts suggestions?

Notch filter the voice to another track and create a hole? I agree that, at best, you'll wind up with kluge. Perhaps, in the future, use two mikes?