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Originally Posted by Ticker  KillerV,
TonyB,
Thanks a lot for the input; I've got a few Q's for ya! When I get to recording, I plan on recording all my tracks seperate so as to not have some of my acoustic track getting into my vocals and my vocals into my acoustic track.. I hope that makes sense? From what I've gathered here, when recording my acoustic I should go with a SDC and when doing the vocals go with my LDC, amiright?
Ticker |
Yes it does. I find that for an intimate setting where it's just the singer and guitar player (both are one in the same), I can get away with one mic for both. Fortunately my studio is built and shaped like a church hall so I capture the natural ambience of the performance. No ITB dynamics needed (for the most part).
However, most of the time I do need to track the vocalist and acoustic guitar separately, especially in a band situation. I get many country bands who's lead singer also plays the acoustic guitar, where the vocals will need some sort of processing ITB to get along with all the other freq's floating about (i.e., electric guitars, keys, cymbals, etc).
What I typically do is record a scratch of the vocals and acoustic guitar (usually along with the bass and drums while I'm laying down those tracks). Once the core of the song is tracked (i.e., drums, guitars, bass, keys, etc), the singer will lay down his/her acoustic guitar; then once that is done, he/she will lay down the good vocals.
You're right, it's good to isolate the performer's vocals and acoustic guitar when possible.