Rookie question

Posted on May 10, 2004 10:25 am
Mauz
grrrrrrr
Member Since: Mar 29, 2004

OK. so I have now taught the songs to my bass player who has a fretless bass and jazz background. We are going for really simple sound. Jazz drums, simple bass, acoustic and voice. Bsically something like embelished acoustic with really good rythm musicians, but super chill.

The drums will be recorded live style in one stereo track since I only have two inputs on my tascam us-122. The bass will go direct straight down the middle.

So the acoustic will be important to give dimension to the recording. I basically play simple chords or pluck around a bit. I am going to mic the strings with my new akg 2000 (which has a very nice sound btw) and also go direct with the preamp. Will the difference between these sounds be enough to give dimension?

Or should I bounce down the stereo track into mono and pan it hard left? Then re-record the guitar on a new track, bounce down and pan hard right? This seemed to work on a recent tune, but sounded a bit messy since my strumming was not exacty the same. And changes in tempo (something i'm very into) was difficult to catch.

Maybe I could bounce and then try the little delay trick giving the right or left side 3-5ms delay? This is probably what I am gonna go for because I am lazy. Any oter tips would be welcome before I immerse myself into days of intense time wasting!

Usually the problem is fitting lots of instruments into a small space. I want few instruments to take up a lot. OK - now I wrote too much and you all wil have dozed off by now. Feel free to kill my topic dB if you feel that it is too rooky a topic. I just thought it was interesting to have to look at an inverse situation when you have lots of panning space and want to make things sound full.

[ Back to Top ]