FMP BLOG WEEK 4

In this week i arranged for a guitar player to come and work on the first track for my FMP, we meet up previously befor the session and shared some idea's, so that when we came to the recording session we was able to crack on as soon as possible. so the first thing we did was to mic' up the guitar amp, i deiced to use a SM57 mic because it has a good SPL level which ment we could crack up the amp to get a nice full sound and also the frequency response of the mic was perfect for recording the guitar amp, after this was set up we got 4 guitar parts record and arranged for a basic skeleton, after all the tracks were finished we used the same mic and set up 2 snare drums to use as a sample that i could trigger via MIDI on the computer. we also use another SM57 to record the snare from underneth so that i could have 2 different recording to play with on a trigger pad. we recorded 4 times but in the end we chose the recording that we felt was the best and as there was roughly 5 people in the room i had lots of feedback for the best snare sound. once this was was done we took everything down and padded up the booth so that it would dampen the room so i could get rid of all natural reverb in the room so i could record vocals as the guitar player i had was also a talnted singer as well. we used a TLA compression unit on his voice to make it sound fat so we could get a decent recording to play with, also we use a pitch correction plug in to give the vocal a bit more of a future sound so that the vocal would belnd in with more of the electronic sounds and this finished off my session.