This week we recorded our acoustic guitars. For this we didn’t need the backing track we had recorded in the first session as we did for recording the bass guitar. It was Me and Paris playing the guitars. We decided to record one in the live room and one in the dead room. This was so the two guitars weren’t picked up in the same mix as one another. Also it gave is two different guitar recordings; the live room giving reverberation and an ambient sound, the dead room giving more of a clean recording. We used an Sm57 on the 12th fret on my guitar which was is in live room and also a room microphone which was the SE22OOA. This allowed us to pick a close and clean signal from the guitar and also the reverberation from the room. Paris was located in the dead room and was using an electro-acoustic guitar so we used a DI box for him. After the levels were sorted out on the desk we hard panned left for my guitar and hard panned right for Paris’s. This sounded perfect in the mix as my guitar played the harmony to Paris’s.
An improvement that could of been made in this session was the organisation of what was going to be played. We had only rehearsed once prior to this session an was noticeable when it came to recording. Other than that the recording went smoothly once the structure had been discussed. We had to record over a mistake at the end but was easily sorted out by using the pre-roll feature in pro tools
I believe we recorded the guitars really well and produce a diverse and interesting sound as we panned the guitars helping boost the harmonising effect.