It’s now Week 3 of the Michael Jackson’s Beat It cover for out Multitrack session and this week we are working on recording the electric guitar. The the Beat It song is over doused with guitars so a lot of work needed to be done when recording the guitar section. Setting up the equipment for the recording session we were using two Shure SM57 microphones. One of the SM57 just about at the centre of the Vox amplifier (A small but powerful speaker) while the other SM57 microphone was positioned just left of the centre of the speaker. The setting on the amp was set with a high gain, no bass, a little bit of treble and some mid, it gave out a sort of heavy metal kind of effect to the way the guitar sounded. They put a sE2200a II to use as a room microphone set in as a omnidirectional polar pattern. The sE2200a is a large diaphragm condenser microphone, didn’t think we needed a room microphone but when it came to testing out the levels and Eq’s the room microphone seemed a lot more useful than I had originally though. We put a high pass filter on the guitar because when we was testing the level of the guitar on the mix we realised the guitars are sounding really full of bass which didn’t sound to nice so a high pass filter was added just to get rid of the majority of the bass created from the electric guitar. We also cut any low frequencies below 50Hz (Keep in mind Danny was playing through out the testing of the levels and Eq’ing). After that we started in recording the track section for the guitar, Danny had to play the whole entire song which was impressive really, we only did about two takes with a bit of editing at the second chorus of the four ending choruses where Danny made a minor mistake that normal people wouldn’t of noticed but if it wasn’t for me noticing that little tiny mistake no one would of said anything, never been so proud of myself and my listening skills. We overdubbed the guitars to make a more, how you say, fuller sound (If i used the correct term?) and the overdubbing came out really well.
