Recording the vocals and bass

For both the bass and vocals, I used the neumann TLM103 in its Shockmount.

For the bass, I placed the microphone a few inches away from the amp speaker, slightly away from the centre of the speaker to create a warmer sound.



For the vocals, the microphone was placed in the vocal recording booth, slightly to the side of the room (to avoid ambience and unwanted room reflections etc). The vocalist positioned herself a few inches away from the pop shield. I used the Neumann TLM103 to create an open, clear and defined recording quality of the vocals, and I kept the Shockmount for the microphone to reduce the levels of unwanted noise.

Recording the acoustic guitar and piano for task 1

I used two Neumann TLN 103 Condensers to record the acoustic guitar. I placed both microphones parallel to each other, a few feet away from the guitar (A-B Technique).



The piano was recorded using two Ribbon microphones placed either side of the piano. The lid of the piano was opened and the microphones were placed inside, approximately a foot above the piano strings.





The acoustic guitar and piano were recorded separately, both using a click and the recorded drum track to keep in time.

Setting up drum kit microphones for task 1

For recording the drums for my cover of Amy Winehouse's 'You know I'm No good' I used:

-Neumann TLN 103 (Condenser) microphones for the Overheads (placed in the same way as described in previous blog post).

-Sennheiser E602 (Cardioid, Dynamic) microphone for the Kick drum (placed inside the Kick drum, as shown in previous blog post)

-DPA 4090 (Condenser) microphone for the snare, however, instead of placing one above and one underneath the snare (shown in previous blog post), I used only one DPA microphone above the snare as one of the DPAs had too much spill of the other drums/high hat.



-DPA 4090 (Condenser) microphone was also used for the high hat (placed similarly to the AKG 414 shown in the previous blog post).