Daw & Live Sound Setup Operation In A Recording Setting
In a session outside of time in class a few of us got together to jam, during the afternoon I got some recordings of Das on the electric guitar as he was showing us some of the phenomenal sounds of his inspirations ranging from blues to raga, joined by Luke on an acoustic guitar layering in some rhythm and Bethany adding in vocals. Using a stratocaster, Das was lined into a mixer which took the sound and sent it both directly into the audio interface for recording through the main outs, and out the control room jacks to a stereo monitoring amp stack. Das applied some EQ on the mixer and amp settings, boosting highs and drive in some sections to accompany the genre of the piece he was playing. We did not mic up any amps, opting just for the DI to get a clean sound on the electric guitar. During the session the acoustic guitar Luke played was mic’d with an AKG condenser at the twelfth fret to get a rich tone which also picked up a lot of nice high ringing transients, this was also directly lined into the interface. This mic did also pick up room noise as we recorded, bleeding the electric slightly, as well as including the original sessions vocal recording which were later tracked over. This was done in another session later with the same AKG mic, for consistency in tone with the preexisting recording, DI’d in and applied with vocal EQ, Tape Delay spreading and reverb. We decided on doing this double tracking with the second recording as the vocals were not properly audible or sonically clear at all behind the acoustic in the original recordings.
The recording software used was Logic Pro, within which I took the dry DI sound of the electric and double tracked it, added various EQs / Tape Delay / Reverb / Compression. EQ was also used to boost the acoustic, along with reverb to fit it better spatially in the mix. Throughout the afternoon as I tracked more of Das’s improvisation, Luke and Bethany joined in to cover a version of Strange Brew by Cream, and Luke played rhythm along to an original composition of Das’. Linked below is an mp3 bounce of the afternoon’s recording session, in the track is the recorded guitars and vocals, the Strange Brew Cover and previously mentioned original work of Das and some of his improvisation. I took the afternoon’s recordings and condensed them together removing dead noise, and as we all like the jam session recording styles of the Grateful Dead, sorted it in a way I felt made for a continuous albeit capricious arrangement, mixed all together into a flowing piece, provided through the line below, Enjoy! :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vAGWV4yG_zIJu_S8klxQ048o_Kv1SoXH/view?usp=sharing
(30 Jan Recording Session audio file)
