This first recording session at Bens with Jacob was incredibly useful to us, it helped us gain a better understanding of how the whole recording process works in a studio kind of environment instead of just sat in front of my computer at home.
The first thing we recorded was my guitar which is lead for this song. I recorded with a Marshal amp head going into an interface, it took a few takes to get it to where I was happy but it should take a few anyway. We stripped all effects from the amp and pedals to make it so all the effects can be put on with the DAW. This is the way Ben said will best to work with my guess is just to clearly hear if its gonna make the final cut or not. I recored in sections and moved on when I was happy with what I had done. I prefer recording like this so we can really get the best takes. After me we did Jacob who after like 3 takes was happy what whats he got. Jacob recorded with his pedal board and a DI into the interface.
Now when it came to bens he had looked up some mic placements for an upright piano and has found one he liked the look of. He recorded his take what looked to be effortlessly and then when we went to get listen to his work we could all agree we could find a better mic placement as we could here the tapping of the keys and some other unwanted noise too. So I suggested sticking em in the top of the piano and closing the front string cover to capture the sound in the piano instead of an outside distance sound. We moved the mics and gave it another go and it sounded beautiful also we could no longer hear the unwanted sounds and was satisfied with his take.
this is a photo of the first mic placement when we had all of the unwanted noise.
This is the photo of my idea (there is a mic on either side) This is the sound we preferred as you can see the only open part is the top.