The Evolution of an Acoustic Recording
 

I thought some might be interesting in a little behind the scenes demo of a recording project. I took a tune from my new CD and created a video showing the track as it evolved, from raw dry tracks thru adding reverb and some other light processing, thru mastering. Here's the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5kCVXyQDys

If you want to skip hearing me blathering about all the details, just go directly to 8 minutes in for a quick pass thru successive iterations, or go to

http://www.dougyoungguitar.com/WSSDemo

where you can hear just the final pass thru as a wav file without You Tube's audio mangler at work.

wow, that is very interesting to watch and listen to.

thanks doug!!

Stellar job Doug, clear, concise, simple. Bravo

Mahalo Doug!
 

Mahalo Doug,

Exactly! What Kevin said.

When I combine room & hall reverbs, it's difficult for me to hear differences on my tracks, especially the room verb. I could hear that slight difference that your combo made here in the overal effect. Subtle, but positive.

I could also hear a slight clarity difference in the upper mid's on the final mastered tracks - on the second one. Your friend's new toy seemed to add more space in that frequency range which enhanced the overall recording.

The second master also seemed to take out a tad more of that emphasized bottom-end wooliness (for lack of a better descriptive term) off the R-88 - an improvement too to my ears. Nice balance in the final product.

Bravo Doug!

Hope we'll see this as part of a "how-to-record-acoustic-guitar" recording or CD down the road at your site.

Happy Holidays & Mahalo a nui!
alohachris

Duplicate - Sorry
 

Sorry - Duplicate Post

Doug,

That was really fascinating -- thank you. Very well done Doug!

- Glenn

Thanks so much Doug......really enjoyed it!

thank you!

I cant tell you how impressed with that vid. I am now thinking about doing something similar. You know what the say about imitation :D

Great video Doug, so well put together. Its really informative to see the various effects and settings that you use. I remember going through a similar though process recording at your studio. The raw tracks didn't blow me away, but after mixing and then mastering it was a really different sound. Each little step in the process adds up.


Anton

Wow, that's what I call an informative demo. Outstanding!

Thanks,
Will

I second that!

Doug hey what is the Video software your using ? Kev

Thanks for the video Doug. It is interesting how two different reverbs can sometimes work together, for example one to fatten the notes and another for a nice reverb tail.