This week we were recording Adam playing the Electric Guitar for the track.
Clementine and Alex were the sound engineers this week, and so they were in charge of setting up the mics in the live room where Adam would be recording.
The mics that were used this week were a sE2200aii, which was used as a room mic and therefore had its polar pattern set to Omni directional as this would fully capture the sound of the room, and two Shure SM57 mics were used to record the actual electric guitar amp, one of which was placed closer to the centre, which gave a brighter sound, while the other was placed closer to the edge which gives a darker sound.
When setting up the amp, it was initially set to give quite a heavy metal sound, which most of us felt would not go with the sound of the rest of the track, and so this setting was tweaked until we found a more appropriate setting.
I was in charge of Pro Tools this week, while Callum was in charge of the mixing desk, and so it was my job to add the tracks, colour code and name them, and I would then go on record Adam’s performance.
There were a few sections where we needed to re-record due to minor errors in Adam’s performance, but the re-records went pretty smoothly as I gave Adam around 8 seconds of pre-roll to make sure that he had time to get his bearings.