This session allowed for us to establish any extra recordings that we wished to add to the song. We decided at the beginning of the session that we wanted to add acoustic guitar recordings and also backing vocals to help ‘flesh-out’ the track.
The acoustic guitar recording was chosen first by the group. We used two AKG414 microphones, one placed in front of the body of the guitar, and the other near the twelfth fret to obtain the sound of the harmonics in the recording capture. We used this setup both in the live room and the dead room so that we could experiment with whether we preferred the natural environment reverberations of the live room or the dead space with just the audio capture. This was fed into the wall via XLR leads and fed back to the desk, with levels being set and input into Pro Tools.
Then the backing vocals were recorded. Two vocals were recorded at the same time, one in the live room and then the other in the dead room. Both musicians used the AKG414 microphones to record.
