Recording Tips and Techniques

Mixer, producer Oz Craggs of Hidden Track Studio gives us 5 tips that are sure to make your guitar sounding great during recordings.

1. Phase Correlation  – probably the most important tip to know if you are trying to achieve that up to the top guitar tone. Understanding the phase correlation between your microphones.
2. Get a Great Monitor Mix even before you start tracking – understand that when you are tracking guitars, it is all about context. Doing this tip does not just ensures that you are doing it right but brings inspiration to your artist as well.
3. Guitar Picks – As small as they are they do matter

Read more here: https://audient.com/tutorial/guitar-tracking-tips-with-oz-craggs/

Pro-audio files’ Ian Fargo shares a story he experienced years ago that lead to the creation of Mastering in the Box, a 3-hour course where Vargo teaches different tricks when recording at home.
Excited about working on a particular project, his excitement immediately died down when his thoughts of a perfect track mixed in a somewhat decent studio with all the acoustics and gear he wanted, turned out the opposite. He worked hard to create a masterpiece that turned to be mangled by using compression incorrectly.
He then set on a path of mastering, with revisions after revisions of this work.
Read more here: https://theproaudiofiles.com/audio-mastering-in-2017/

Are the “rules” for using compression the same for all types of music?
There is no one rule when it comes to mixing. Different mixers (the people who mix) have different opinions, different experiences, different styles and many more difference.  But they all usually agree on one thing – producing good results.
When it comes to using compression, things get even more complicated because there are so many things you can do with it. In general, compression is a tool for making the volume level of something more even and consistent (check out out our posts Should You Use Compression In Audio Recording? and Improve Or Ruin Your Audio With an Effect Called Compression.
Compression can be a complex beast. And what works for one type of music may be totally inappropriate for other genres.
Read more about what to do with compression depending on the genre of music here: https://music.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-use-compression-in-different-genres–cms-29270

Like most music enthusiasts the idea of a perfect recording is probably the ultimate goal. Setting up the best home studio, working with sophisticated tools and setting up an environment for that one perfect mix, unfortunately for most of us, having all of these does not always equal to a perfect recording. Sometimes it’s the driving force that actually pulls away from this desire. The tendency is we tend to over do things in trying to remove all those imperfections and at the end, we take away the tracks life as well.
Learn to let go and loosen up a bit.
Read more here: https://www.recordingrevolution.com/the-art-of-embracing-imperfections-in-your-recordings/

There is no one size fits all when it comes to recording your acoustic guitar, this type just varies per instrument so recording one may need some variations. Good thing there is more than one technique you can choose from. Producer, engineer, author and coach Bobby Owsinski of the Music Production gives us three techniques from his book that is sure to work. Have them handy in case everything else you have tried failed.
First, consider the following, close miking the sound hole is a complete no-no because generally, this is where the worst way to produce that sound for your recording.
Close miking the sound hole is a complete no-no, as this produces the worst sound you can use for your recording.
Read more here: http://bobbyowsinskiblog.com/2017/08/09/recording-acoustic-guitar/