This week we recorded acoustic guitars for the piece. We decided to record both guitars at once in slightly different methods to give us good experience in tracking guitars. We decided to record using an amp as well as a room microphone and a DI line from the guitar. We tuned the guitars and both guitarists decided on a strumming pattern that would fit with the songs. One guitarist was in the live room where we used the SM57 and the room microphone. The other guitarist was in the dead room with the guitar directly input into the desk.
We used the fold back feature on the desk to send the track via headphones to both guitarists. No desk EQ was used to help us get a rawer sound to mix.
We had a run through of the song and recorded it with a few problems. We rerecorded some of the sections using the pre role setting in pro tools which meant we could get a very clean take.
Overall we got a very good set of takes which allows us to have a good amount of leeway when we mix the piece.
