This is how we setup the microphone to record the guitar for our track we actually recorded the guitar on a Marshall amp and was much bigger than this. I set it up myself I turned a flash on my phone and pointed it toward the Marshall amp to find what direction the speaker of the amp is positioned at. Once I found where the speaker was at I placed a SM57 dynamic microphone on a stand a pointed it towards the speaker on the Marshall.
This is how our drum set up was like it looked almost the same I believe the microphones for the left and right overhead are measured evenly in this picture ours wasn’t. I also think there is no microphone placed under the snare whilst on our drum we did I think that’s the only differences of this setup to our setup.
Recording bass live from a amp has the exact same process of setting it up as a guitar amp does.
Recording bass live from a amp has the exact same process of setting it up as a guitar amp does.
We didn’t have a microphone setup for our keyboard as we used a MIDI keyboard this really frustrated me as I wanted all the instruments to be recorded live but we didn’t have enough time to set up microphones for the piano by that time.
For the drums we used multiple different microphones to record it.
- For the kick of the drums we used a AKG D112 as this microphone specifically picks up bass and low end frequencies which is perfect for kicks on drums
- For snare and all toms we used a Sennheiser MD 421-II Cardioid Dynamic Microphone as it can handle high pressure levels
- For the overheads and hi hats we used a AKG P170
We actually recorded this song live all together in one room but in a way they’re wont be much leakage into the other microphones I was the only one in a different room I was playing guitar in the recording room as there was already y a guitar amp there and if i recorded with the rest of the band in the same room here would be too much leakage into the other microphones. I am glad we recorded it live in the same room as I believe doing a multi track recording would be much more difficult and take up too much time.
The difference between Analog wave and Digital wave is the fact that Analog is the authentic recording sound wave of the instrument when played live from a real instruments and not a software instrument whilst the digital wave is played from a software instrument and tries its best to sound as authentic as possible. You can see from the image above the digital wave is not as curvier or as smother than the Analog wave.
I believe when recording you should record the instruments live whenever you the chance as software instruments can sound really bad such as a guitar as a software instruments sounds very bad and not authentic at all.
We didn’t have a microphone setup for our keyboard as we used a MIDI keyboard this really frustrated me as I wanted all the instruments to be recorded live but we didn’t have enough time to set up microphones for the piano by that time.
For the drums we used multiple different microphones to record it.
- For the kick of the drums we used a AKG D112 as this microphone specifically picks up bass and low end frequencies which is perfect for kicks on drums
- For snare and all toms we used a Sennheiser MD 421-II Cardioid Dynamic Microphone as it can handle high pressure levels
- For the overheads and hi hats we used a AKG P170
We actually recorded this song live all together in one room but in a way they’re wont be much leakage into the other microphones I was the only one in a different room I was playing guitar in the recording room as there was already y a guitar amp there and if i recorded with the rest of the band in the same room here would be too much leakage into the other microphones. I am glad we recorded it live in the same room as I believe doing a multi track recording would be much more difficult and take up too much time.
The difference between Analog wave and Digital wave is the fact that Analog is the authentic recording sound wave of the instrument when played live from a real instruments and not a software instrument whilst the digital wave is played from a software instrument and tries its best to sound as authentic as possible. You can see from the image above the digital wave is not as curvier or as smother than the Analog wave.
I believe when recording you should record the instruments live whenever you the chance as software instruments can sound really bad such as a guitar as a software instruments sounds very bad and not authentic at all.