It’s been quite a while since I did a recording/music blog. But check this out. I’ve had this track setting on my Maxtor outboard drive for a few months. It’s a pop rock arrangement that was done to test my then-new microphone setup. Here are the techniques I used:
- Recorded two acoustic guitar tracks with XY close condensers. One pointed at the neck, the other at the bridge. One acoustic has a capo so it has that mandolin-ish sound.
- Recorded the drums on stereo track with four mics: XY overhead, inside kick, and close snare (AKG D88).
- Added software-generated keyboard pad.
- Added electric guitar and bass guitar tracks, direct to the mixer.
- Minimal compression on everything except the drums (hence the cymbals sound a little “dark”).
- A little reverb on the master track.
Tell me what you think after you have a listen.
I am listening to a microtonal piano music performance right now, via the Microtonal Podcast Blog. What IS microtonal piano, you ask? Well, take a regularly tuned piano and then retune each key using the “in-between” pitches not normally employed in most popular piano music. The result can be aurally flustering but also downright gorgeous, depending on the ability of your ear to hear the intervals used in a standard-tuning-predisposed manner. You may have to listen for a while before it stops sounding “out of tune”. 
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