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Yax
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How do you record? It's far more likely it's something else that causes it and not your DAW.Don Dokken said:I'll look at it. The biggest problems i have with Audacity are A) Acoustics andRecording with a distorted guitar it comes out really bad. Will I have these problems with AA?
I record with my laptop. I think it's the microphone. I'm gonna start to put some tuning cones (that's what I call them have no clue what he real name for them is) on my wall and move my amp further away from the laptop and see if anything changes. My room has too much reverb for some strange reason. I might also consider a better microphone (any suggestions?)Yax said:
Yax
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I assume you also use an external soundcard?Don Dokken said:
And do you have flutter echo in your room? You said your room is very reverberant. Flutter is a very fast burst of repetative reflections between the floor and the ceiling. I have it in my livingroom, and it's very destructive when it comes to recording.
As for the cones, a bookshelf with books randomly placed will also absorb sound.
Do you mic closely to the amp? As for microphones, a good old SM57 is a great choice for a cheap microphone. There's a reason why it's the most commonly used mic.
Comb filters are also the recording musician's worst enemy - You easily get it while attempting a stereo recording, but you're recording mono, right? I'm not sure, but I seem to recall my acoustics teacher (I'm a first year audio production student) said that interference might occur due to reflections anyway, even with one mic. Reflections are created which gets picked up by the mic later than the direct sound. The waves get out of phase with eachother (as you get both direct and reverberant sound) and frequencies cancel out eachother.
No I don'tYax said:
No. When I play my acoustic it sounds like i'm playing at the end of a hallwayYax said:
I have a small bookshelf already. The cones would go on the ceiling.Yax said:
I did but I rearanged my amp and set it farther away and I will see if that helps. I will look into using a SM57Yax said:
Yax said:
I'm recording stereo but I'm using about 3 or 4 guitar tracks moving one left one right, and 2 to the middle. Should I be recording mono?
just got reaper. It isn't free. I thought it was. Maybe I will buy it.
Yax
Ancient Mariner
In that case, you desperately need an external soundcard. Integrated soundcards (as in, on the motherboard like in a laptop) are useless for recording. Extremely useless. Your microphone also has a 6.3/3.5 connector? Those mics won't do if you want a quality recording. For your situation I recommend getting a good soundcard and line the electric guitar, and then reamp is with software, like Amplitube and Guitar Rig 4 - Those softwares are fantastic. Especially Amplitube. That way you won't get any flutter echo, reverb, interference or anything.
Cones on the ceiling sounds good to me.
And by recording stereo, you mean you mic it with two microphones, right? You can get an overall stereo sound by panning several mono tracks, (I do that at home) but stereo recording is when you record with two or more microphones. Mono vs Stereo depends on the situation - "Gothenburg Metal" bands record stereo with two SM57's, one placed slightly more away from the amp. That's the contemporary technique. Or pretty much, not sure about the mic placement.
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Anyways, Stereo micing in a room such as yours with your current equipment and situation seems a bit overkill to me. But to use several mono tracks to create a stereo effect is what I think you should do (or maybe that's what you're doing?).
To conclude though, I'm positive the best way for you to record a distorted guitar is through amp modelling, where you line the guitar to an external soundcard (the external soundcard thing is of extreme importance. As I said, the built in soundcard is useless for recording) and add the amp later digitally. Satriani lined his marshall heads and used modelled cabinets on his Professor Satchifunk... album.
Here's a vid of guitar rig and Amplitube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf2CbUAi83U
Cones on the ceiling sounds good to me.
And by recording stereo, you mean you mic it with two microphones, right? You can get an overall stereo sound by panning several mono tracks, (I do that at home) but stereo recording is when you record with two or more microphones. Mono vs Stereo depends on the situation - "Gothenburg Metal" bands record stereo with two SM57's, one placed slightly more away from the amp. That's the contemporary technique. Or pretty much, not sure about the mic placement.
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Anyways, Stereo micing in a room such as yours with your current equipment and situation seems a bit overkill to me. But to use several mono tracks to create a stereo effect is what I think you should do (or maybe that's what you're doing?).
To conclude though, I'm positive the best way for you to record a distorted guitar is through amp modelling, where you line the guitar to an external soundcard (the external soundcard thing is of extreme importance. As I said, the built in soundcard is useless for recording) and add the amp later digitally. Satriani lined his marshall heads and used modelled cabinets on his Professor Satchifunk... album.
Here's a vid of guitar rig and Amplitube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf2CbUAi83U