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recording harmonica
recording harmonica
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tf10music
75 posts
Mar 31, 2011
12:38 PM
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for those of you who do your own recording, how do you filter your acoustic harmonica tracks? My default for high pass filter is 40 hz, and for the low pass filter, it's 16500 hz. I get the feeling that I could optimized my sound if I filtered my harp tracks separately, but I don't know where to set me filters.
Thanks!
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oldwailer
1580 posts
Mar 31, 2011
12:44 PM
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Wow--I wish I knew the answer to this kind of question--I do my own recordings--but I just dick with it until it sounds the way I want it to--kind of like the way I set up my gear for playing out--dick with it--that's my answer. . .
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waltertore
1245 posts
Mar 31, 2011
1:03 PM
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tf10music: I record acoustic harp and vocals at the same time through the same LDC mic for 99% of my songs. That makes it tough because the two like opposite eq'ing. Oldwailer has it right. Let your ears tell what sounds good. Don't be afraid to spin the eq dials. Basically the harp likes the highs trimed and from there you can tweek the middle and bottom sounds. A lot depends on what kind of harps you play, the way you play, the key of the harp, the room it was recorded in, and the song tones (if you are with a band or backing tracks). THis is what I love about learning to make recordings. It is on the surface a very simple puzzle but once you get into it, it is intensely complicated. Let your ears do the mixing. That makes it do-able. Play the song on several different players and put it up against a harp sound you like by another artist that was recorded professionally. The net is flooded with crap sounding videos/music out of home studios. What kind of eq do you have? Do you use a compressor? What mic/preamp/software/interface do you use? Lots of questions I know but this is part of the learning curve with being a recording engineer. Walter
PS: Also the quality of your recording chain will impact the final sound. Like I said it is a very complicated puzzle that little tweaks can make huge differences in the end result.
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Last Edited by on Mar 31, 2011 1:19 PM
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christopher godwin
4 posts
Apr 04, 2011
7:44 AM
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I record at home and use a lot of harp. To some extent
it depends on the type of music. When I want an acoustic feel, I play the harp into the recording mic;
when I want a more electric or a dirtier feel, I play through a harp mic into an amp, and record that.
If you are playing a lead break, EQ the mids up. If you are playing behind a guitar or vocal, EQ the mids down.
I always EQ the bass up, and the trebel down.
Effects are fun too: chorus, echo and reverb...I'm playing with this stuff, and have no personal formula for using them. Whatever sounds good, sounds good.
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