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Tomorrow the guitar player of our 'project' is going to visit me at my place to record a few parts of a bunch of songs (intro's) using a semi-acoustic guitar. He wanted to know if he should bring his (old) RP1 effect machine for a decent line-signal to be recorded. Well, I was basically thinking I'd be recording the acoustic signal with (condensator?) mics and blending that with the signal from the element/pick-up inside the guitar. I do not know specs about the guitar and/or used element/pick-up. What would you recomend for recording that type of guitar, using mics/or not, using the elements/or not, blending mic & pickup lateron in the mix or use only one source for recording. I need it to blend nicely with a very heavy rock tune that starts right after the intro.
My gear:
-Sonar 2.2, 2.2GHz, 512 MB mem, Delta1010LT, M-Audio DualMP3, Phonic (I know..) 4 ch. mic mixer and many many cables. Also a drum-mic set with 3 condensormics (el-cheapo, Collins).
I think I'll set him up in the room I have that sould be pretty 'dead' due to carpeting, wood in/on the walls ect. We'll plug his element into the RP1 and allow him to set up a decent sound he likes (via my crappy monitor speakers using the RP1 stuff at a minimum, volume & eq only) and blends nicely with the stuff it has to fit to. Also I'll setup a small condensor mic (one of my Collins-8 piece mic-drumset) to pick up the acoustic stuff inside the room. He can play with the clicktrack and his guitar sound on a headphone (but quite soft, since the mic might pick it up, and he's supposed to play that intro alone). These are really small parts he's to play, but I want a decent sound and a decent performance.. I'm pretty sick with editing the other stuff we've recorded, so this intro-stuff has to be right as it is. Having the right ideas about the setup might help doing just that
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Thanks guys/lads.
My gear:
-Sonar 2.2, 2.2GHz, 512 MB mem, Delta1010LT, M-Audio DualMP3, Phonic (I know..) 4 ch. mic mixer and many many cables. Also a drum-mic set with 3 condensormics (el-cheapo, Collins).
I think I'll set him up in the room I have that sould be pretty 'dead' due to carpeting, wood in/on the walls ect. We'll plug his element into the RP1 and allow him to set up a decent sound he likes (via my crappy monitor speakers using the RP1 stuff at a minimum, volume & eq only) and blends nicely with the stuff it has to fit to. Also I'll setup a small condensor mic (one of my Collins-8 piece mic-drumset) to pick up the acoustic stuff inside the room. He can play with the clicktrack and his guitar sound on a headphone (but quite soft, since the mic might pick it up, and he's supposed to play that intro alone). These are really small parts he's to play, but I want a decent sound and a decent performance.. I'm pretty sick with editing the other stuff we've recorded, so this intro-stuff has to be right as it is. Having the right ideas about the setup might help doing just that
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Thanks guys/lads.