The additional instrument which we recorded was a didgeridoo. The song we were recording required a D-note. However, the didgeridoo supplied, as it seemed later on, a whole other note. This was easily fix with Auto-tune from Anteres, but we are getting way ahead of ourselves here! We had the condeser mic placed under the didgeridoo and placed a popfilter in front of it. We pressed record, our guitarplayer took a woof of air and played. End of sequence. That's it!
Vocals however seemed to require a bit more work to record. Because of all the noise reflection of the room we had a blanket placed over a speaker in front of us. Like this:
Furthermore, we placed a popfilter (or in our band called "spitscreen") in front of the condenser mic and had a closed pair of headphones on. Because vocals need power on actual recordings we took a bit distance (a tiny bit of distance though, or else you get a lot of ambient room sound with it) and sung a bit louder that we usually do. Also, this condenser mic was very sensitive, so we pressed the headphones a bit more to our ears.
That's it. Just sing and remember to press record. That's it for my view on the subject. I've invited another band member with whom I recorded to join this blog and post his adventures and views concerning the recording process. I, on the other hand, will continue to the mixing part of this journey. That's when the fun starts.
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Some people tend to for get that it's not always about the greatest recording room but about the best performance!
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