Sunday 8 April 2007

Week 6 - AA1

This week’s exercise was to test several recording techniques for acoustic guitar.
I did this week’s project with Alfred Essemyr and Edward Kelly.
1- Using an AKG C 414 and a Neumann U87 (Both condensers) in an XY figure as shown in the picture below:AKG is sent to the left channel and U87 to the right; this is the result:



2- Using two Neumann KM48 condensers, one in front and one in the back of guitar. As shown in figure 2:The front one is the left channel and the back one is the right channel.



3- We used two KM48s again, but this time one close to the bridge of the guitar (right channel) and one pointing the nut of it (left channel)


4- Two KM48s, in an XY pattern:



5- Finally, here is a sample of acoustic guitar recorded using a RØDE NT4 stereo microphone:

The entire session of ours in Protools looked like this:

It should be noted that as the picture shows, we recorded few more tracks but I chose 5 of them since we were supposed to post 5 samples.


References:

- AKG C414 B-ULS Condenser Microphone :
http://www.zzounds.com/item--AKGC414BULS
- Neumann U87 Condenser Microphone:
http://www.neumann.com/?lang=en&id=current_microphones&cid=u87_description

- Neumann KM184 Condenser Microphone (developed version of KM84 which we used in this session):
http://www.neumann.com/?lang=en&id=current_microphones&cid=km180_description

- RØDE NT4 Stereo Microphone: http://www.rode.com.au/?pagename=Products&product=NT4
- Music Technology - Audio Arts Week 6 (PDF format); Click here.

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