Touch ups
Tyler Porter posted
I have been recording on a recorder, and I seem to get by with just reverb and thrown in effects once and a while…. but in some cases I just can’t make it sound as full as I want it… granted I am only playing acoustic and singing… but bands such as City and Colour and Conor Oberst seem to be able to make acoustic songs sound so full…. I’ve tried a few things like percussion and bass boosts.
Does anyone know of a couple tips in making my music sound more full? I do assume professional equipment would of course be one way…. but I haven’t had a job in four months…. haha… musicians…
Posted on September 04, 2009
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Tyler Porter said
Thanks man, I appreciate the feedback! I think I’m getting a hook-up so I can run my mics straight to my computer and equalize each track more freely instead of working with the clumsy operating system of the recorder. And good advice with the 2 separate guitar tracks, I’ve tried this with vocals, but didn’t have the smarts to get to sounding right, maybe I’ll give it another go.
Happy recording!
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Soumitra Bhat said
The most important thing about recording acoustic guitars is capturing the natural low end through your microphone. Your recorder microphone probably doesn’t catch frequencies that low. I think a cheap microphone that you have on laptop headsets can also do the trick.
If you check the ‘Wonderbrawl’ song on my page, I’ve used a headset mic to record the electric guitars – just placed the mic in front of my amplifier. You can still hear a workable low end (it’s not gorgeous, but then it’s cheap). (TIP: its good to cover the soundhole of your acoustic guitar with a thin sheet of plastic while playing so that the mic doesn’t feedback from the resonance when you place it close to the hole.)
Once you have a decent raw recording then you can use reverb/eq etc to suit your taste.
Another thing I would try would be to double track the guitars. Record the guitars on one track first, and then play and record them again on a separate track…. so it (almost) sounds like there are 2 guitars playing…. remember to not just copy and paste the first track into the second, because then you will get two ‘identical’ guitar tracks and that would end up sounding artificial.
I’m no pro myself, so take all this with a pinch of salt :)
cheers