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Originally Posted by RDBOIS
Yeah, but the most important part of the equation is missing...
Where's the link to the song?
hehehe
I too often record my nylon classical guitar. I've yet to find a way to record and process that I'm 100% happy. I was hoping to hear what you managed to do with these plugins - and then ask you the setting and mic set up.
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The album is getting a lot closer to completion now. I still have a couple of tracks to finish and one of them is an electronic prog rock epic so it is a huge mixing job.
In the past, I have often released songs as they are completed but this time, I'm not releasing individual tracks but rather waiting to release the whole album at once.
I will say though that there are a number of factors involved with the recording of the nylon string as mentioned above.
It is a brand new, custom built guitar and one Lyndon is still getting used to. It doesn't have the bite that his other nylon string guitars have but it has a character we both like. My challenge was to add the bite and top end sparkle I wanted for this track and EQ and dynamics alone were not doing it. We could have just used another nylon string but Lyndon was visiting me and only brought the one guitar with him. He lives more than 700 kilometres from me so that is a LONG journey to get one of his other guitars!
Given all that, I chose to record it with a number of mic's and choose the ones that worked best later during mixing. I ended up going with a combination of a Shure SM81 and a PZM I designed and built. Both were quite close to the guitar and the SM81 was pointed at the fret board towards the edge of the body (around the 12th fret). The PZM was right next to the SM81 but being a PZM, it tends to pick up everything in front of it quite evenly and with a closeness only a PZM gives. I time aligned them both in REAPER using
l8r from Boz labs (I measured the distance between each mic and the guitar during recording).
The most important plugins I've used to shape the sound to what I want are ReaEQ, Waves F6, Scheps Omni Channel and Scheps Parallel Particles with the latter giving the added HF air and MF presence.
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Originally Posted by airon
Neat. This works really well on some dialogue. Thanks for the heads up.
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You're most welcome.