#machineblues

[oonazoona]

RECORDING ACOUSTIC GUITARS

which means time for my Fender Hellcat. After trying out a lot of guitars I decided to buy this one a while ago. It is not very loud but it has a sound that suits my needs very well. It has skulls too...

I tried out various strings to get the best results and it took a while to find the right mic placement. I ended up with a ribbon mic pointing to the 12th fret of the guitar and a condenser mic above my right shoulder. The ribbon supplies a very full-bodied sound as expected. The condenser will give me an open-sounding addidtion to the ribbon  if I am heading for a little more presence.

I am quite satisfied with the results.

Some experiments during the session included the heavy use of a capo, different tunings (I often used DADGHD), and the infamous Nashville-tuning (the octave-strings of a 12-string set). In fact there is one track I used a DADGHD tuning with the octave strings and the capo on the 9th fret; kinda fake mandolin ;-)

[oonazoona]

RECORDING THE ALBUM PART THREE

SOME MORE DRUMSYNTH MADNESS

Recorded a few tracks with my self-assembled breadbox drumsynth by LEAF AUDIO. It´s basically a clone of an 808 bassdrum. You can trigger it via Audio or CV.

It does nothing except BOOOOOOOM, but it does this exceptionally good.

Might use it again during mixing for subsynth or fattening up bass drums. We´ll see.