Apologize Final

New Experiences:  Micing a piano and violin

Post-Recording:

Everything went fairly smoothly since both of the other Aaron’s were involved in the session as well (one performing and one observing).  I first created a temp track for the piano and violin to play back with.  I then recorded the piano separately, followed [...]

mi guanguanco: Afro-Cuban 1

Afro-Cuban 2

Afro-Cuban 3

Afro-Cuban 4

For this project, I was faced with both a music style I was unfamiliar with (Afro-Cuban drumming/singing), a recording style I was unexperienced in (four-track portable recorder), and six musicians all eager to play their parts.

I set up a Rode NT4 [...]

Bolling Trio Mvmt 1

Bolling Trio Mvmt 2

Bolling Trio Mvmt7

Faced with a purely acoustic classical/jazz trio, I was definitely challenged in this recording process.

Miking decisions: Neumann KM184s for the piano, Sennheiser 421 on the flute. SM57 for the snare, AKG d-112 for bass drum, AKG c-451s for the cymbals.

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Here are some of the other songs I recorded in the studio.

Heartbeats

Cover of a Jose Gonzalez song. I used the AKG C415 condenser mics to double mic the two guitar parts. Vocals were recorded on the Neumann TLM 193 mic. I wanted to capture all of the warmth of this song. There [...]

Dill Pickles

Pre:

I had planned to spend about 30 minutes for set up, about 15 for levels and balance, 55for recording, and 20 for take down.  I was going to have the Rode NT4 as a room mic in front of the xylo and then the AKG C451s as close mikes on [...]