Need tips and tricks RIGHT HERE: recording advice

Infin · Post by **Infin** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:31 am

I'm still learning the finer points of Live, Running live 5 and using a diaphragm condenser mic to record acoustic guitar and vocals. I have all the effects and about a million plugins, but of course I don't know how to use anything.

Here's a sample recording (which is not that strong but whatever) and you can here the static and background noise at a low volume, also the vocals are kind of metalic and very thin.

Plays in the browser: http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplaye ... 22600&q=hi

What I'd like is to clean up that static out of the background, thicken up the sound, and get some nice clean tone instead of that cave sound I've got going on.

My effects chain: EQ 3 -> Resonator -> Compressor

I have a vague idea of how to use eq and the compressor, but the res I just fiddle with the knobs but I don't know how it works. What else do I need to know to unlock the tone? Any plugins or settings or values I need to pay attention to.

Fill me with knowledge! Thanks for the help.

Michael-SW · Post by **Michael-SW** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:18 am

Start by just doing the recording clean. The effects you can apply afterwards. There is no benefits to applying the effects before recording if you are doing it all inside your host.

The noise during silence you can get rid of with a gate, pre or post recording. The noise might very well come from you computer BTW, so a longer mic cable/separate room etc will help.

Concentrate on the getting a good nice sounding clean recording. If that sounds bad too, it is probably due to your mic (enough phantom power?) or your soundcard.

(Why the Resonator? It is a cool effect, but the metallic sound is probably due to that)