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Hey there -
I just joined this site - very good place to get new ideas!!
I have used some of the ideas here many times - at least partially...
I used to record a part on two or three tracks simultaneously (voice or guitar), put a slightly different reverb on each, then add in a few milliseconds on one of them - delete a few millisecs on the other, pan them apart & leave one alone in the center ... didnt have the ability to change the pitches tho ...
Eventually I decided its a better sound to just make one track, & record more takes (double or triple the parts, if I can re-do them closely enough, which in rare).
Sometimes I'll set up 3 mics - two dynamics up close & a condensor a few feet back (as a room ambience mic). My Dynamic mics p/u different enough that you can hear one is slightly more mid-rangy than the other. Dynamic 1 is left & dynamic 2 is right (not quite 100% panned), about a foot & a half apart, one gets my DD6 & the other gets the mixer's onboard reverb. The condensor is center, mixed in with less volume & gets no Efx. During recording, you can alternate between the two cardioids to make panning happen as you turn from one to to to the other (not continuously, just at strategic points in the song)- or "swish" from one side to the other as you move thru the field of recording between the 2 mics. I think it works better if you do not get too close to either one, and have them far enough apart that there is noticeable track separation.
In my current setup, I mix all the sounds into a stereo mix, and send the 2 tracks out to the firewire box - so I'm only recording a stereo track on each take, panning controlled by the mics I'm singing into. Sometimes it works well, sometimes it sux. I think it works ok for shakers if I work at it...
I'm sure this is not a really good way to get what I'm after - but hey - I'm not a recording studio !!! Takes trial & error to get the mic spacing right to get a good swishing from one side to the other without dips in the overall signal levels, but thats fixable too... on a computer.
I'm just trying to do things w/o needing so much after-editing on the computer - I can do that, but I get tired of sitting there all day - I'd rather find stupid ways to do simple things!!
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Hey there -
I just joined this site - very good place to get new ideas!!
I have used some of the ideas here many times - at least partially...
I used to record a part on two or three tracks simultaneously (voice or guitar), put a slightly different reverb on each, then add in a few milliseconds on one of them - delete a few millisecs on the other, pan them apart & leave one alone in the center ... didnt have the ability to change the pitches tho ...
Eventually I decided its a better sound to just make one track, & record more takes (double or triple the parts, if I can re-do them closely enough, which in rare).
Sometimes I'll set up 3 mics - two dynamics up close & a condensor a few feet back (as a room ambience mic). My Dynamic mics p/u different enough that you can hear one is slightly more mid-rangy than the other. Dynamic 1 is left & dynamic 2 is right (not quite 100% panned), about a foot & a half apart, one gets my DD6 & the other gets the mixer's onboard reverb. The condensor is center, mixed in with less volume & gets no Efx. During recording, you can alternate between the two cardioids to make panning happen as you turn from one to to to the other (not continuously, just at strategic points in the song)- or "swish" from one side to the other as you move thru the field of recording between the 2 mics. I think it works better if you do not get too close to either one, and have them far enough apart that there is noticeable track separation.
In my current setup, I mix all the sounds into a stereo mix, and send the 2 tracks out to the firewire box - so I'm only recording a stereo track on each take, panning controlled by the mics I'm singing into. Sometimes it works well, sometimes it sux. I think it works ok for shakers if I work at it...
I'm sure this is not a really good way to get what I'm after - but hey - I'm not a recording studio !!! Takes trial & error to get the mic spacing right to get a good swishing from one side to the other without dips in the overall signal levels, but thats fixable too... on a computer.
I'm just trying to do things w/o needing so much after-editing on the computer - I can do that, but I get tired of sitting there all day - I'd rather find stupid ways to do simple things!!
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