AA1 Week 8

Electric Guitar recording was the lesson for me. Playing guitar is what gave me an interest in music, so learning about recording it was most enjoyable.

In these recordings we used the Shure SM57, Neumann U 89 and the Sennheiser 481.

The first example is of a Neumann U 89 on a slight angle to the amp, towards the edge of the speaker cone. The sound that was produced was very thick and "bassy", not very useful for my applications.

http://www.mydatabus.com/public/loudman/z/NeumannU89distoffaxis.mp3

The second example is of a Shure SM57 facing directly at the centre of the speaker cone. This sound was very dynamic, however sometimes a little thin or "trebbely." But dispute this slight flaw, it produced one of the best sounds.

http://www.mydatabus.com/public/loudman/z/SM57Dist.mp3

This next example was an experiment with stereo. We combined the two previous sounds and panned one hard left and the other hard right. This sound is very dynamic and produced the second best sound during the exercise.

http://www.mydatabus.com/public/loudman/z/SM57LU89R.mp3

This is the same set up as the previous stereo experiment, except this time we recorded a clean guitar sample.

http://www.mydatabus.com/public/loudman/z/SM57LU89Rclean.mp3

The final example was produced using a Sennheiser 481 facing directly at the speaker cone. This produced the best sound in my opinion because it was so dynamic. Because of this dynamic quality, we recorded a clean example. It seemed to have the best frequency response to the guitar's tone.

http://www.mydatabus.com/public/loudman/z/Sennheiser481clean.mp3

Overall lots of fun and personally (guitar being the main instrument i play) interesting.

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Sorry, having issues with uploading photos. Will do this at a later date.