Need help with recording songs

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Hello guys,

I'm trying to rec some covers hoping to understand how to record properly songs before do songs that I wrote.

This is the tone\result I want:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtTGbB1sE2M

Anyone can help me? I'm really bad at recording.

This is what I have:
- acoustic guitar
- electric guitar
- Rode Nt1a
- a shitty passive shadow pickup (probably the shadow sh 330)
- Logic pro X
- Guitar rig 5 (for guitar tone)
- Izotope nectar (for voice tone)

thanks for your time.
 
What you have is pretty well all you need in the way of equipment to get reasonable recordings. Fortunately for you, you can ditch the shadow pick up because you won't need it. Just use the mike on the acoustic guitar.

You will need some reasonable monitors to listen to stuff, and you will need a recording space that's acoustically friendly.

Most importantly, though, you will need to develop your recording skills and techniques. In particular, you will need to develop critical listening skills so that you can hear what others have done and how they have done it, and so that you can figure out what's lacking in your own efforts.

There is no easy way out here . . . it means a lot of trial and error . . . getting things wrong, then figuring out to fix them. This takes practice, experience and knowledge, and is not something that can be passed on simply, like a cake recipe.
 
Just record a song, take note of the details of how you did it, then post it here in the MP3 clinic with those details.
The guys will analyze what you've done and make suggestions as to how to improve what you've got.
Also you can ask questions on how to fix things you're stumped on.
Step by step, song by song, you will get better at it. But you need to get feedback on what you have, after you do it.
I am still learning and have been posting songs since 2005. My first mixes were absolute crap :D
 
Maybe I'm not seeing something the guys above did - but I don't see that you have an audio interface - a device to get the sound from analog to digital and into your computer.
 
Thanks to you all.

Of course I've an audio interface (focusrite saffire pro 14) and all.
I've already recorded several stuff but I'm not satisfied.
I was asking for more precise tips to record a track that sound like the one I posted. From the mic position to the guitar rig tone. It's pretty hard for me, at the moment I'm recording with the microphone at about 15 cm form the 10th\12th fret.
Thank you guys
 
iknownothing said:
Thanks to you all.

Of course I've an audio interface (focusrite saffire pro 14) and all.
I've already recorded several stuff but I'm not satisfied.
I was asking for more precise tips to record a track that sound like the one I posted. From the mic position to the guitar rig tone. It's pretty hard for me, at the moment I'm recording with the microphone at about 15 cm form the 10th\12th fret.
Thank you guys
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Ok, you didn't tell us you had an AI, hence my mention of it.
Is your tracking (and listening/mixing) room acoustically treated?

Like Ido suggested, post your recordings in the MP3 clinic and go from there.
 
Yes post the recordings,I would mix and master to see what you think.
 
Hi,

You should have some monitor(I had m-audio av40.. Cheap and powerful). I started like you with a rode nt1a. Personally I think acoustic treatment isn't important to start(I didn't).The most important thing is knowledge, learn what is a compressor, eq, reverb, delay.

To record guitar track search on YouTube there's plenty of video that say we're to place mic(habitually in front of fret 12, 3-4 feet from mic.). Record two same guitar track and pan one on left and other one right.

You can check my cover channels : YouTube.com/F2DProduction I did everything by myself with cheap gear. Learn everything on YouTube, forum, book.
 
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