MASTER CLASS 1–(RECORDING GREAT STUNNING GUITARS)
DAY 1 9am-12pm
Deciding on microphones for the job
- Microphone designs
- Dynamic mics:
- Ribbon mics:
- Condenser mics
- Microphone placement techniques
- Single mic technique
- Stereo mic technique
- Three point system
- Four point system
Stereo miking techniques
- Spaced or (a/b)
- X/y
- M/S
- Blumlein
- M/s pro tools / mixer trick
DAY 1 1pm-4pm
Acoustic Guitar Placement Techniques
- Listen to the guitar and rate it’s sound aggression factor
- Listen to the mics and rate their sound aggression factor
- How to listen to the guitar in the actual room
- How to listen under headphones
- Where to place the amp
- Listen to the amp in the room
- Decide on a mic technique
- When should you use a DI
DAY 2 9am-12pm
Guitar Miking And Headphone Techniques
- Deciding on a mic technique
- Setting up a microphone for the guitar
- Using more than one mic for the guitar
- Creating a headphone mix for the player
- Setting up tracks for the acoustic guitar
- Coarse adjustment of placement
- Fine tune adjustment of placement
Controlling the Guitar Sound
- Create a track or tracks
- Create a headphone cue mix
- Turn up the amp or the pre amp and listen for tone
- Decide on height
- Decide on distance
- Decide on angle
- Decide on the type of Pre to use on the mics
- Using a compressor while recording
DAY 2 1pm-4pm
Great Electric Guitar Workshop
Electric Guitar-The Different Animal
- What affects the sound of the Electric Guitar
- Type of wood or material
- Pickup Placement
- Types of Pickups
- Tone Controls
- Frequency range
- Things that can make your electric guitar sound bad
- How to listen to the guitar amp in the actual room
- Should you use a DI
- Using quick punch and track punch for guitars
- Using Pre Roll and Post Roll settings for guitars
- Loop Record and Multiple Playlist Settings for comp tracks and emotional decisions later
- Setting quick punch and track punch crossfade preferences
DAY 3 9am-12pm
- RE-AMPING AND MULTIPLE AMPS
- Single Mic to Amp Techniques
- DISTANCE
- Using Two Mics Together
- Phase matching
- Different Speaker Cones
- Ambient Mics
- Although shunned by a few famous producers combining the close and ambient techniques
- Multiple amps
- Creative use of phase cancellation between microphones
- The use of timed effects as part of the performance vs ambience