Heavy Breathing

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Well, it's been a pretty good afternoon of tracking...my foam sneeze guard seemed to do the trick along with a figure 8 setup. Only very very slight hints of body sounds in my recordings which I've been able to nudge out with some track clean-up.

Thanks everyone.
 
i had an old guitarist who basically would suck in air really quick and then do a riff holding his breath and let it out at the end of the riff....i never understood that crap but i didnt have great equipment so it didnt pick it up too well thank god. does he need to see what hes doing on the guitar? you can always make him turn his head away from it....I need to record some acoustic guitar to see what it sounds like with my condensor mic....hmm i wonder how much it'll pick up
 
Have the guy breath out of his mouth. I have the same problems when I have a cold. For some reason it's alot quieter breathing through my mouth during those quiet passages.

That and have him turn his head off to the side.
 
I think I remember someone mentionning a technique for separating vocals from guitar when recording live solo tracks somewhere on the forum. The trick was to place cardboard horizontally in front of the guitar player, halfway between the guitar and his mouth, and then have a microphone picking the guitar (placed under that cardboard) and another picking the voice (above the card board:

dude's head -> O voice -> mic1
/|\
/ | \ ---- cardboard----
| guitar -> mic2
/\
_/ \_


hope the picture clarifies a bit...
 
the picture went wrong, he I go again:


.dude's.head.->O voice -> mic1
......................../|\
......................./.|.\ ---- cardboard----
.........................| guitar -> mic2
......................../\
....................._/...\_
 
i would recommend just gating it. if you gate it for the right dB then you'll eliminate all minor sounds. all the loud stuff you can see on the waves and just delete them if you zoom in enough
 
a technique i have tried and works if you have a hard time getting rid of the breathing, is breathe in time to the song. If you focus on breathing in every 4 bars and out after another 4, you will first reduce the amount of breathing and secondly, it could possibly fade into the mix as some kind of percussion. Although I've never heard an instrument that sounds like someone breathing haha.
 
lysis said:
i would recommend just gating it. if you gate it for the right dB then you'll eliminate all minor sounds. all the loud stuff you can see on the waves and just delete them if you zoom in enough
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Maybe. But on 'solo acoustic'? Maybe if you're tossing the natural space and filling in with verb.
 
A fig 8 mic is as good as 'deaf' on the side, you do the math.
 
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