Recording Handbook - Hol.gr

Q3.1 How do I get a good sound?
David Copeland (davidc@access.rrinc.com.blacksburg.va.us) writes:
- Try to record intruments seperately (unless you have lots of rooms
to isolate the instruments)
- Mike the bass. Plugging a bass straight into a four track usually
leaves a dull thud bass sound. If you don't want to mike it, try to
use an eq pedal or something to shape the sound and boost the signal a
little (or if you have active pickups...)
- To get a really good guitar sound, this is what I try to do.
o Record the drums and bass onto two tracks.
o Have the guitar player play the guitar track on both of the
remaining tracks separately (so there's two takes of the same track)
o Then, put the bass and drums center and one guitar right and one
left. It creates a really cool chorussy sound and makes the guitar
extra heavy.
o Then mix down onto another cassette. The new cassette has
everything but the vocals on two tracks leaving you with two more
tracks to do vocals, leads or whatever. This process can be repeated
for more tracks.
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