Keep the nose breathing for the Zen Buddhist mediation temple.
In the studio... Please breath through the mouth.
I just trashed hours of recording an up close, intimate, classical guitar with a condenser microphone, because I could hear a strange sibilant sound coming in and out like a wave in the audio track. It was me, nose breathing!
Took me a while to figure out what that subtle sound was; I though it was room echo, comb filtering, the sound of the PC fan, a faulty sound card or dirty microphone...
Nope, it was me who ruined the session.
Now I have to learn how to mouth breath while playing the guitar.
I go back and forth between this forum and the homerecording.com forum, and it's really weird how your issues here seem to run parallel to things other folks are dealing with over there. Your experiments with finding a decent acoustic guitar sound were in tandem with some other dude doing almost the exact same thing, and now this.
Well... I guess I'm not alone in the quest to get a descent sounding guitar and vocals. I mean - doing the home recording - sometimes cheap gear shuffle?
Do you want to laugh a bit? hehehe
Check out my brand new 'treated room' / recording booth : made it yesterday and recording in it today. Very promising results - if I can stop the nose breathing (note: something I noticed BECAUSE of this booth - that was the only background sound, unlike when I record in the living room at my computer desk)...
Well... I guess I'm not alone in the quest to get a descent sounding guitar and vocals. I mean - doing the home recording - sometimes cheap gear shuffle?
I've been tracking vocals and or acoustic for 20+ years now. I'm quite proud of the results I get now, this was NOT the case when I started. They are better now for three reasons...
1. Better gear choices than when I first started.
2. Well-treated room.
3. After all those years of doing what you are doing, I just got better as time went by because I kept trying.
You can't truly know what not to do, until you've done it enough to know what not to do.
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Keep the nose breathing for the Zen Buddhist mediation temple.
In the studio... Please breath through the mouth(
Heh heh on a related note, I've got a client that wants to stand while playing his acoustic guitar. Actually he just likes to stand while he's playing guitar, harp, or singing and he can't stop tapping his toe to the music.
I finally found a good padded scatter rug for him to stand on and that took care of it.
Heh heh on a related note, I've got a client that wants to stand while playing his acoustic guitar. Actually he just likes to stand while he's playing guitar, harp, or singing and he can't stop tapping his toe to the music.
I finally found a good padded scatter rug for him to stand on and that took care of it.
...or you could go the other way and tape a tambourine to his foot
certain clothing can also cause issues when you move the guitar a bit while playing.
Reminds me quite some time ago we had this problem, and actually tried a bandana tied around the players face as a joke, but found a heavier t-shirt actually did work quite well.
I was listening to A Prairie Home Companion the other night. They had the Dover Quintet. Either they left the dude's lavelier on or one of the instrument mics was pointed right up somebody's nose. Whoever it was would take a loud inhale before every phrase, and after all of whatever smashing happened on the way to my car radio, those breaths were as loud as the instruments. That would be reasonably easy to duck out of a recording cause there's nothing happening that you want to hear at those points anyway. The best sounding part - actually all of - a violin or viola is right in the performer's face. That's not even to start talking about flutes! Some of these things are expected from that kind of music, but this was nuts. Good show anyway.
I was listening to A Prairie Home Companion the other night. They had the Dover Quintet. Either they left the dude's lavelier on or one of the instrument mics was pointed right up somebody's nose. Whoever it was would take a loud inhale before every phrase, and after all of whatever smashing happened on the way to my car radio, those breaths were as loud as the instruments. That would be reasonably easy to duck out of a recording cause there's nothing happening that you want to hear at those points anyway. The best sounding part - actually all of - a violin or viola is right in the performer's face. That's not even to start talking about flutes! Some of these things are expected from that kind of music, but this was nuts. Good show anyway.
It's just not the same without Keillor and crew...
It's just not the same without Keillor and crew...
No. It's a completely different show. I very much resent the fact that the new host has a mandolin with him at all times. I don't believe I've heard a full episode since Garrison left, but I work every other Saturday and my drive home is during the first half of their second hour. The musical birthday segment can be kinda fun.