How I recorded the guitar sound in my cover "The Hermit"

[Jean Pierre]

I'm happy with Mike and Farell's questions about my reccord of Hermit cover (John Renbourn)

One of SC's interests beyond the congratulations that are required is to exchange recording procedures at an amateur level...

That's why I post this post also in the "DAW and music Software" forum

- The DAW I use is REAPER from Cockos (Daw free or almost free!)
- for this John Renbourn tune I used my Martin 000 guitar (a good guitar...but not exceptional)

This Martin is purely acoustic, no integrated microphone, so I go through a microphone here a T BONE S 400, it's the one I had on hand (good condenser microphone... but not exceptional

The sound recording is monophonic with the microphone facing the guitar neck/guitar body junction, at about 30cm

You can hear on this extract (first musical sentence of "The Hermit") the sound recorded dry in the first part

...and the sound processed, only with VST Plugs in de Reaper (plugs in free too!)

For the acoustic guitar sound I have a chain of Fx that includes:

a Rea Tune (plug in that has an extremely precise tuner and an analoque tonal correction tool in Melodyne)
a Rea Fir (plug in FFT Eq by subtraction which allows to strongly modify the frequencies
a ReaEq (multiband equalizer)
a Reaverb (convolution reverb), the impulse convolution used is 1960 Taj Mahal Deep 6 (free convolution also)

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator

screen copy and MP3 Dry/wet in attachment

thanks  guys for your listening

[Farrell Jackson]

Thanks for the recording info. JP ! You got a very good acoustic sound with that set up and effects.