How to Record Guitars on a Demo Tape

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Hey! My name is Jerimae Yoder and I am with Expert Village. I am going to talk to you a little bit about home recording and recording electric and acoustic guitars and base guitars right now. One of the things that you want to make sure that you are doing is different guitars have different methods of transferring sound. For instance, an electric guitar plugged directly in through a quarter inch plug and you run that through an amp or you run that directly into your recording device. An acoustic guitar obviously has a sound hole. Some acoustic guitars has a mic input within the sound hole but generally an acoustic guitar is just this, a piece of wood. Mine has a pick up on the inside and the bridge portion with an EQ also on the top of it so that I can EQ my sound a little bit and go directly into recording device via the input on my acoustic guitar. But with acoustics you really want to have that ambient sound. You want to have a little bit of outward sound so another technique is to place a mike in the sound hole when you are recording and when you replace that mike into the sound there are a couple of things to remember. The lower to the butt end of the guitar you are going to get more of a basey sound and the higher you get away from the sound hole up on the strings you are really going to pick up that string sound. On the 12th fret, is a really good place to place your mic. As far as mics, go and that SM 57 or something like that is a really good mic to pick up your string sounds. Run through your amp and mic your amp. Get a really good tone on your amp and then just reinforce that sound by running it through another mic like again a SM 57 or 58 placed at about a 45 degree angle or so at one of your cones just back a little bit. We'll get you really sound out of your cabinet and as you get to know your equipment a little bit more, you can add a little bit more crunch to that, some EQ's, some compression to really get that tight crunchy sounding guitar that you really want on impulse production. Base guitars are basically the same thing as an electric guitar. You want to send that through. A lot of times you can do a base direct too and you can get a pretty decent sound. But to get a really nice round warm tone, you are going to want to run through your rig and mic your rig and maybe even set up a mic back a little bit to get the full sound of your base and get a good warm tone to it.

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