For week 9, it was time to record the electric guitar parts. Our group had two volunteer guitarists – Jack Bartley and Jack Johnson. J.Bartley played the rhythm parts while J.Johnson did the lead bits and harmonics.

All the recording was done in the live room using an amp mic’d with three mics. A Shure SM57 was place about two inches away from the protective grill pointing directly at the cone. A second SM57 was placed 5-6 inches to the right, off-axis pointing at the edge of the cone to give us a grittier, crunchier sound that will cut through more in the mix should it need to. A third mic, AKG C414, was place about 7 feet away from the amp with the omni-directional cardioid pattern selected to recorded the general ambience of the room. A we were recording in a live room there was plenty of natural reverberation that was recorded with the C414 mic.

On the recording desk, a high shelf at 60 Hz was applied with a -6 dB gain cut to remove unneeded bottom end that a guitar doesn’t use anyway. No FX or compression were applied at this stage.