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This weekend I am having a bass guitar and electric guitar played, and recorded in my studio. Sound like a good weekend right?? Wrong. I have absolutely NO experience recording live instruments. I have a Line 6 Pod farm guitar interface ( which i am obviously yet to use) One thing I am wondering is: which would produce a beter sound? Micing up their amps, or plugging them directly into my interface? On top of answering that question, could you guys please give me any other tips that have proven to be useful when recording guitars? Thank you in advance. I check this forum daily, so if you have any questions about the specs of my studio, feel free to ask, especially if it will help you to give me advice.
 
Same thing I said in your other thread:

Let the players choose their poison.

If you've never recorded with with a mic...you should try it on the guitars/amps.
Yeah, these days you can DI just about everything except vocals...but IMO, that gets a bit stale-n-sterile.

(Oh...keep it to one thread...no need to ask the same question in several forums.... :) )
 
BSharp810 said:
This weekend I am having a bass guitar and electric guitar played, and recorded in my studio. Sound like a good weekend right?? Wrong. I have absolutely NO experience recording live instruments. I have a Line 6 Pod farm guitar interface ( which i am obviously yet to use) One thing I am wondering is: which would produce a beter sound? Micing up their amps, or plugging them directly into my interface? On top of answering that question, could you guys please give me any other tips that have proven to be useful when recording guitars? Thank you in advance. I check this forum daily, so if you have any questions about the specs of my studio, feel free to ask, especially if it will help you to give me advice.
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Micing the amps are good. What do you have for microphones?
 
Don't think you will be happy with the results first time out, no matter what methods you use. Positioning mics, adjusting the sounds from the amps, adjusting the DAW, ......
 
Ive recorded vocals many of times...not enough times to consider myself anything but a " Newbie " still... but im familliar with mixing and all that....ect.

I am using an Akg perception 220
 
BSharp810 said:
Ive recorded vocals many of times...not enough times to consider myself anything but a " Newbie " still... but im familliar with mixing and all that....ect.

I am using an Akg perception 220
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That's all you have for a microphone?

You might want to run out and get a Shure SM 57 or a MXL R144 ribbon mic to record the amp. ;)
 
Suprisingly my guitar session ended with some recordings that both me, and the guitarist are happy with. I Took your advice and mic'd up the amp, played around with placement, and made money...haha. One problem that i did encounter was a delay. I would record the take, and it would be miliseconds off. I just moved it into place, nonetheless, it was still annoying. Does anyone have any advice, or even a solution to that problem?
 
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