Portfolio Assignment

Recording Drums

In todays recording studio, I recorded Josh playing drums for the track I am remixing, in employability called 'Do For Love' by 2pac. To start off we decided on a list of microphones we would need during the process, this included; 4 Sm57's and 2 NT5's. We chose these microphones so the Sm57's would be able to pick up individual sound whilst the two NT5's would act as overhead microphones to capture the drum sounds all together and give us the stereo image we desired, whilst one of the Sm57's were placed on the snare, another on the high toms, another on the floor tom, another on the hi hat and the last one on the kick drum. This was a successful idea as we were able to get a very clear, smooth sounding drum kit which gives me many options to chose from when editing. Below is the finished recording of the drums, with each track labelled of the positioning of the microphones.

Recording Bass Guitar

Recording the bass guitar was fairly simple, we set up 2 NT5's and placed them by the bass amp using a stereo axis positioning called ORTF to ensure the sound wouldn't clash, whilst brining out the best quality of the sound. We chose to use the amp rather than feed the bass directly into the D.I so we still had the ambience in the background rather than just purely the bass playing. We took multiple takes to deicide what bass track I would use on my track, furthermore we also added a titan as a room mic to add ambience to the sound. Below is a screenshot of the bass recording.