Recording Technique Examples

[Heady Jam Fan]

I was just messing around after work (note: excuse some of the sloppiness ) and decided to turn on my mic!

I recently switched my rig back from W/D/W to mono in case I find time to play out or jam this month and I don't want to bring my PA, as well as the fact that I am temped to sell my wet gear. Anyway - this relates because I used to record the same way my W/D/W is set up; on three tracks, the two wet ones with a stereo spread chorus>delay>reverb. The last recording I did sounded good - very full and wide, but to some degree I wanted a bit more space - I mean, TS's and a Ross sounds pretty fat to start! On the other hand, most modern recording uses some technique to make the guitar sound wider.

The track compares 3 techniques of adding width to a track after recording:
1) Doubling the track, hard panning and detuning one side 5 cents
2) Stereo Spread Chorus
3) Double the track, hard panning and putting a 10ms delay on one side

Song clips include: Wind Cries Mary, Waste, Stash, David Bowie and Harry Hood

I think I like the Detuned one most, sounds the most natural: chorus takes away some clarity even though it doesn't really even sound modulated, and the 10ms delay always sounds a little weird to me cuz I notice the delay especially on the attack.

Just figured I would share! I also liked Happy's example of how Trey (and Languedoc) actually do Phish recordings with a 2nd mic a bit further away, but I don't have a 2nd mic currently.

PS - using the Artinger, the dirtier TS on Wind Cries and Stash, the cleaner on the other tunes, I had my Retro-Sonic Ross Comp set really high (you can probably hear). I was using coil drop in the middle position (1 single coil from each humbucker in parallel) for Wind Cries, and I was using the neck humbucker for the rest of the tunes. Aside from that, I had my RV7 reverb set to Hall on all the tracks, my Flashback set to the Matt Beck Echo for Stash, and a little software compression (multiband) to catch any frequency peaks. All through my '65 Bassman with an Eminence Red Fang on an MXL2010 mic. (Can't forget my purple lava coily either).

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