From the course: Music Production Secrets: Larry Crane on Recording
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Creating an ensemble from one musician - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Music Production Secrets: Larry Crane on Recording
Creating an ensemble from one musician
Larry: I'm going to show you a really cool trick that, I've never heard people talk about that much. It's real easy to do, and it's a really neat effect. You can create a whole ensemble recording, using only one musician, as long as you do this. Use a stereo pair of mics in a decent sounding room. Now what I do, is I take the musician, and move them. Acou-, leave the mics where they are, and move the musician in the room, so that they're showing up in different parts of the stereo field. This is a really great trick, and adds a sense of depth and width to the recording. So we got my friend Erin back here. We're going to have her sing a, a vocal part four times over itself, the same part of the song, and we're going to move her left to right, across the sound field while we record this. Or while, we'd run the different takes I should say. So we'll move up here, and we'll start up here, on the carpet here. And then we'll do the first take, and then we'll do three more passes. And we'll…
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Setting proper microphone levels8m 11s
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Miking snare drums5m 28s
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Treating snare drums for alternate sounds4m 47s
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Comparing four common vocal mics5m 39s
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Recording live performances of acoustic guitar with vocal11m 32s
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Vocal recording tips10m 31s
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Recording miking bass amp and DI together10m 34s
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Using distortion with bass guitar4m 28s
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Creating an ensemble from one musician6m 26s
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Finding the best drum placement in rooms4m 1s
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Miking drums8m 14s
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Treating drum sounds in the room8m 37s
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Destroying hum9m 14s
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Recording upright piano13m 19s
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