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Taming boomy acoustic guitars - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Real Recording School Weekly
Taming boomy acoustic guitars
- [Man] Acoustic guitar frequently gets recorded with mics placed too close to the sound hole. These examples were recorded with a dynamic mic pointed towards the 12th fret or the joint of the guitar, which is generally a good place to aim the mic for a balanced recording. In the first file, it's two inches from the guitar. It's very close. Hear how this goes. (guitar strumming) It almost sounds distorted, even though the pre-amp wasn't being pushed hard and nothing was in place that would cause that, but it's very close and there's a lot of low-end buildup. In the second file, I moved it five inches from the acoustic guitar. (guitar strumming) A little more clarity ensues, opens up a little bit, but in the third file I moved it 16 inches away from the acoustic guitar, which sounds a little preposterous. (guitar strumming) But in that example, it actually works pretty well. It softens up some of the high tones of the guitar and the low-end drops quite a bit and opens up for a more…
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Finding kick drum articulation5m 30s
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Identifying bad drum edits6m 50s
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How small rooms affect drums5m 31s
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Dealing with snare drum ring8m 57s
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Taming hi-hat bleed6m 49s
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Stopping hollow kick drum sounds4m 29s
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Taming boomy acoustic guitars3m 29s
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Fixing boomy upright bass4m 44s
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Mid/Side or XY drum mics?4m 51s
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Problems with multiple mics on guitar amps5m 34s
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Too much room sound on the vocals4m 14s
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Vocals with proximity problems7m 12s
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Vocals with close reflections6m 15s
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Snare compression6m 29s
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Clicky upright bass4m 44s
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Identifying bad vocal edits6m 45s
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Different overhead drum mics4m 30s
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EQing overhead drum mics2m 23s
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Drum room ribbon mic angle2m 27s
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Connect the vocal notes1m 38s
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Bass in higher registers1m 28s
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Adjusting bass definition5m 7s
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Drum overheads or front-of-kit mics?4m 32s
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How to end vocal phrases2m 11s
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Listening to different snare mics4m 4s
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Drum bleed on toms with different mics6m 32s
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Damping snare by hand during tracking2m 43s
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How to support long vocal notes2m 9s
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Two bass amp mics to audition3m 2s
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Damping drum ambience or not?5m 38s
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Roving microphones on drums6m 6s
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Stereo vs. mono drum overhead mics4m 45s
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Cardioid or omni mono drum overhead mics3m 48s
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Blumlein vs. X/Y drum room sounds4m 9s
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Quick tip on recording snare drum3m 7s
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Drum overhead compression4m 4s
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Omni or cardioid drum room mics?2m 52s
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Do different kick drum sizes matter?5m 42s
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One electric guitar tracked stereo3m 55s
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Tracking one guitar with two amps: Splitting signal3m 49s
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Tracking one guitar with two amps: Ground hum5m 30s
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Tracking one guitar with two amps: Polarity5m 58s
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When to set delays off tempo4m 22s
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Duck echo effects with compression4m 57s
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Automate EQ on fake strings3m 3s
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Sum to mono your low end4m 56s
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Turning any sound into sonic wash6m 1s
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Drum room mics as overheads6m 23s
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Adding spring reverb to guitar parts4m 16s
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Bass sidechained from kick drum3m 23s
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Kick drum sidechained from bass3m 35s
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Kick drum low end in the mix3m 13s
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Reamping instruments with travel speaker4m 58s
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Changing vocal sounds with real tape4m 50s
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Changing instrument sounds with real tape4m 34s
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Reamping vocals through headphones2m 55s
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Reamping instruments through headphones3m 34s
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Let artists control their headphone mix2m 1s
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Parallel vocal compression2m 36s
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Parallel vocal compression with midrange EQ2m 19s
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Speaker mic on kick drums3m 27s
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Checking mixes: Left minus right2m 49s
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Checking mixes: Mono2m 10s
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Using the console as a keyboard5m 32s
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Moving mics while reamping5m 6s
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Moving speakers while reamping3m 11s
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Moving mics around speaker reamping2m 3s
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Creating wider sounds through reamping2m 51s
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