Recording a pop song cover
Pre
recording
Once I had the microphone set up, I had to go back into the
studio to make that they were picking up any signal and to do some level and
sound checks. If the signal was to high, I would have to sort out the gain to
make sure that there was no clip coming up on the mixer.
For one of my microphone set ups, I added 2 microphones for
the piano, one on each side of the piano. This would create a stereo effect and
that it can pick up both sides being played.
Before I started to record my talent for my pop song, I did
a run through with them before to make sure that they were comfortable with
what they were playing.
While is did the run through, I had to fix the gain levels
as they played since when they play, they would sometimes play the instrument
with force as they played, which would result into more gain changing.
I did a multitrack recording for 2 instruments: the drums
and the piano. What this does is record multiple tracks at once and it saves
the time for having to them one by one and it also helps to keep everything in
time while the talent plays.
Electronic
instruments
The only electronic instruments that I have used are the:
Direct Injection (DI) and the bass guitar.
The bass guitar is plugged into the mixing desk via a DI
cable and so whenever a string is played, the computer will pick it up like it
would do with and acoustic instrument and a microphone.
Recording
I monitored the instruments as they were being
played/recorded and to make sure that there was no clipping and that the gain
wasn’t too low.
The headphones we connected to the box on the wall, this
will then send the original track from the studio and into the other side of
the studio where the headphones are plugged in. This will then play through the
headphones and the person on the other side (who is playing the instrument) can
hear what the person in the studio can hear.
Talk back was used during the sessions. This was used to
communicate with person on the other side without having to get up and go round
to the other side just to talk to them.
I was able to identify each one of my tracks by labelling
them as to what they are and what they are representing and grouping them
together.
I’ve done some overdubbing, which is where you record a
track on top of another. I had to do that with the vocals but then I would have
t shorten the track bar because it was muting the other track. This was used to
record different sections of the song and for when the vocalist needed a lead
up for a certain of the song.
I had to listen for any unwanted distortion, especially
after the recording. If the entire track has distortion then the track would
need to be recorded again however if there’s a small amount of distortion at
one part then that part of the track can be turned down just so there’s no
distortion or clipping.
I had to check for any playback for when I export it to make
sure that the entire track was exported properly.
SoundCloud
link
https://soundcloud.com/user-308391730/every-heart
