New Tune Recorded with Reaper and Zoom R24

[Greg Cutshaw]

This is my first attempt at recording an Ovation guitar. It was used on 3 verses and played through a Fender Princeton Reverb with Hall Of Fame reverb set on "Church". Amp was mic'd with a Shure SM57 into a Studio Projects tube hybrid preamp with the tube section turned off.

Hear It!

Here's the guitar I used:

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/ ... ric-guitar


I have this one also and it has a clearer tone but I can't keep the pickup working on it:

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/ ... ric-guitar


These guitars really offer a nice alternative to either an electric lead or a full accoustic. Never owned one before but they are a blast to keep handy and play while watching TV, especially the shallow back one.

The rhythm track used a Washburn S-10 capoed up around the 10th fret to get if out of the range of the lead instruments and it sounds a lot like a mandolin there, high and clear. That was recorded with a cheap condenser mic.

Like my other recordings, the drums were created with EZDrummer Nashville pack with lots of edits to take out the overly busy bass drum parts in the stock patterns. I also added most of the cymbal accents, stop on 5 and 7 patterns and transition patterns. The fills offered in EZDrummer are often too busy for a country recording and have too busy sounding Toms for my taste.

The Piano part was created in about 5 minutes by cutting and pasting EZKeys parts together, changing the keys offered and lowering them an octave.

I spent about 2 hours mastering the tracks in Reaper using volume envelopes and some compression to take out the uneveness of many ill hit individual notes. This is a real easy process and not painful at all.

There's 28 tracks to the whole recording, 26 tracks on the Zoom and 2 (piano, drums) created in Reaper. About 8 of the tracks contain patches of duration 1 note to a full measure to fix playing errors and a few multi takes where I selected the final take after hearing what sounded best after all the tracks were assembled in Reaper.


Greg

[Andy Sandoval]

I like it Greg.

[Dick Sexton]

Greg, I see that your also using Reaper. I'm finding that I can not get a usable input level from my mic. a Sennheiser 609(or a cheesie computer mic). I'm having to run everything on the computer wide open to even get close. I noticed your using a Mic Pre Amp. Was that a fix... System is showing IDT High Def Audio CODEC... Windows 8. Any suggestions?

[Greg Cutshaw]

I run my mics in a Zoom R24 then into a mic preamp to get the input signal above the noise floor of the R24. When I get all the tracks recorded, I port them to Reaper for editing and mastering.

Diagram of my setup is here:

http://www.gregcutshaw.com/Zoom%20R24%2 ... tudio.html

Greg

[Dick Sexton]

Thanks Greg...