My father has been playing guitar with a guy up in NY, and this guy has a few original songs which are reportedly really good. My father has been trying to get this guy to put them on tape and shop them around to some country music heavyweights that this guy knows somehow. But the guy is reluctant.<\/p>\n
My father came to visit a few years back and saw my Boss BR600 digital recorder. It's a multitrack recorder, about the size of a couple National Geographics. He thought it was cool and bought one for himself, to record this guy. But, he's not quite as tech-savvy as this little device requires its users to be, so it has gone mostly unused.<\/p>\n
This weekend, dad calls me and says \"Hey, [this guy] wants to know if it's OK if he comes down to your place so you can record these songs for him?\"<\/p>\n
\"Drive from NY to NC to have me<\/i> record him? It's a 13 hour drive, and will cost hundreds in gas and tolls and food?\"<\/p>\n
\"Yeah!\"<\/p>\n
\"Why not just take a couple of hundred bucks and find a local guy with a garage studio to record it?\"<\/p>\n
\"He doesn't want to do that.\"<\/p>\n
OK. So I agreed that, if the guy drives down here (which is not a sure thing), I will do my best to record him. Problem is, I don't record other people. I really don't know know anything about sonic fidelity or what it takes to record vocals because neither of those has ever been important to me - I take a no-fidelity approach to my own stuff. I don't know why my father thinks I'm the right person for this.<\/p>\n
So... anyone out there know anything about recording vocals and acoustic guitar?<\/p>\n
I have a simple outboard compressor (an Alesis Nanocomp), a few mics, the BR600 (which can record two channels at a time), a big house, etc.. But no idea how I should approach this, should it happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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