recording advice

[darkstar]

Greetings!  I have recently been able to experiment a bit with my recording gear that I acquired over the last few months via Santa, anyway here are a couple of recordings.  The first is an old Neil tune that I often do live - just me and guitar with a little bit of reverb.  Voice in one channel and guitar in the other and then I duplicated the track.  Do you think something like this is better in mono or should I put the guitar track down in stereo and then vocals in mono?  Also the instrumental was done in stereo and panned hard right and left.  Advice??  I'm new at working with all of this software.

[clark24426]

I know absolutely nothing about recording, but I sure like your picking and singing! Nice job.

[Matt Sarad]

http://www.homebrewedmusic.com/

Fran Guidry has spent countless hours and money with microphones, their proper placement, digital recorders, recording both guitars and vocals. He dedicated a room in his house to these experiments.

Read, listen and learn.

Matt

[darkstar]

Thanks Clark and thanks Matt - his website is very informative - already looking into multi-directional mics (figure 8 pattern) and such.  I think that Eric Skye had mentioned Mr. Guidry's site to me at some point as well.

[rick-slo]

Pan the guitar and voice closer to center - there is a big sound hole in the middle. Guitar in mono, voice in mono, or one stereo track of voice and guitar. Experiment.