Some problems with electric guitar recording. Guitar recording post processing

Electric guitar recording is generally divided into two ways: internal recording and external recording.

Internal recording refers to the recording of the guitar directly or through the sound card of the effect (many multi-effect devices can now be directly connected to the computer to record and the sound card can be omitted).

External recording refers to recording through microphone pickup.

External recording has certain requirements for the recording environment, and in order to ensure the recording effect, it needs more perfect and better equipment, internal recording has relatively low requirements for equipment, and even the effects can be replaced by software effects, and it can also record a great timbre in the case of proper adjustment, and it does not disturb the people, so the internal recording is very suitable for recording something at home, and most of the performances on the Internet are also recorded like this.

Equipment required.

In addition to guitars, effects, speakers and other equipment, you also need a microphone, a sound card, and preferably a monitor headphone.

For internal recording, you basically only need a guitar, a sound card, and a pair of monitor headphones (or a pair of monitors).

Software. First of all, you need recording software, and the commonly used software is cubase, which is powerful and relatively easy to use.

Recording**also need**software to synthesize audio and** and**add some special (duang) effects (duang) and the like, commonly used software has VideoStudio and Sony Vegas Pro, the former is easier to use, but the function effect is relatively simple, and the online cracked version is not easy to find, so I personally recommend Vegas Pro

In addition to the above software, it is best to prepare an effect software, commonly used guitar rig and line6 pod farm, both of which I use, recommend guitar rig, because it is best to use the sound card of line6 with pod farm, that is, to use the genuine cracked version, it seems that you can't install the VST plug-in in cubase, that is, the recording interface can't be used, even if you use the genuine version, although the timbre is very good, but the adjustable items are not as rich as rig Many of the preset sounds also require an upgrade package to be purchased.

Other instrumental sounds refer to accompaniment.

Generally, you can directly put the original song to cover some big songs like Canon I'm alright kind of online can go down to the accompaniment.

There are also those who do their own accompaniment, but it is slightly more difficult.

Equalization adjustment, note no answer or intention silence.

1. Record an ambient sound, extract noise samples, load songs, and process noise;

2. Perform the volume, sound image, and spatial sense of each instrument, and highlight the balance of each instrument;

3. In the early stage of processing, do not add time and space effects, including delay and reverberation;

4. Finally, when the fine adjustment is made, it should be supplemented appropriately to increase the delay and reverberation;

5. Add it to eliminate it again, which will cause the sound quality to deteriorate, and the cover should be adjusted in a balanced manner.

If it's your own original, there are a few basic things to pay attention to.

First of all, no matter what software you use, and no matter whether there are vocals in your songs, you must pay attention to the volume, sound image, and spatial sense of each instrument.

If you do it more carefully, the various parts of the drum should also be classified, including cymbals, brass drums, snares, kick drums, etc., and the balanced frequency band should also be clearly distinguished, otherwise, the overall effect will be very chaotic and there is no sense of space.

After these have been made basic adjustments, the second thing is to add the effects you want, and when you process them in the early stage, don't add all the time and space effects, including delay and reverberation, etc. At the end, when the fine adjustment is carried out, it can be appropriately supplemented, and the delay and reverberation can be added at the beginning, and there is no regret in the later stage. So before doing each step, you have to think clearly, what you want, have a general direction, and back up your files.

Just in case. If your guitar track is recorded internally, that is, the line-in method, it is best not to turn on the reverb when recording, and even the delay can be turned off, and then added in the later stage, because if you add it in the early stage, this "amount" is not easy to grasp, and when the overall effect is adjusted together in the later stage, it will be good to add the effect through the software, maybe you will feel bad when recording, but for the final result, this is one of the methods.

If it is recorded externally, that is, miced, there are more things that need to be paid attention to, including the silence of the ambient sound, the placement and angle of the MIC, etc., these cannot be adjusted in the later stage, only in the early stage.

If it's purely about post-production, that's what I mentioned above, the most basic thing is the balanced adjustment, so that the various parts don't fight, how to adjust the specifics, this is not something that can be explained for a while, it depends on the actual situation and experience.

If you use cooledit, you can simply do some effects, such as noise reduction, pressure limiting, reverberation and so on. The Chinese version of the next cooledit is clear at a glance.

First cancel the noise, record an ambient sound that doesn't play anything, then extract the noise samples and load them into your recorded song to process the noise.

Then add some chorus and reverb appropriately, as well as EQ equalization, and the acoustic guitar is basically the same.

Electric guitars may also need to be handled with specialized effects software.

What software do you use? This thing can't be said in a few words, but you still have to buy the corresponding textbook and come back systematically to learn to progress faster.

In this case, the wiring sequence should be: guitar audio, computer linear input, headphones connected to computer monitoring. It's fine if your sound card doesn't have latency, but it's usually a little bit of delay.

Look at the configuration. My recording is so connected, I recommend it to you. Of course, you can also have a guitar stereo, then headphones in the stereo monitor, and then connect to the computer to record, and that doesn't affect anything.

This way, you don't have any latency problems.

In this way, the same as your speaker's, the speaker output line is used in a two-way transfer 1 point 2 One plugs in the headphones and you monitor by yourself, and the other can be directly input into the computer MIC It depends on what software your computer uses, the computer opens the mic input and there is sound, and you use the software settings to record or something.

It's good to buy a good microphone, the piano uses a box, there is a converter that can be connected to the computer, you can look for it, use a good guitar, preferably more than 1000 pianos, even if you want to borrow one, the recorded timbre is very different, I wish you success.

If he says, you can use your ready-made one, but try not to use the cheap one, if you play for a while, you should have a decent one, you can use that one, buy a good microphone.