- 1). Place each musician in the studio so that the acoustics of the studio will best complement his instrument. Place drums in larger rooms with reverberant qualities but place vocals in small rooms with little to no reverberation. For maximum separation between instruments, isolate each instrument into a separate recording room. This will keep the instruments' audio signals from bleeding into one another.
- 2). Select microphones that will best capture each instrument. Dynamic microphones are good for recording drums and electric guitar. Condenser microphones are suitable for recording cymbals, acoustic guitar and vocals.
- 3). Place the microphones in order to properly capture each instrument. Place microphones close to the sound source if you want a direct sound. Place the microphones farther away from the sound source to capture the sound of the room in addition to the sound of the instrument you are recording.
- 4). Plug each microphone into a microphone preamplifier to boost the signal of the instruments you are recording to an audible level.
- 5). Adjust the gain or volume levels of the microphone preamplifiers to achieve the appropriate signal level for each instrument. Be careful not to set the microphone preamplifier gain too high, or you may experience clipping and hear distortion in the recording.
- 6). Route the signals boosted by the microphone preamplifiers to a digital recording device, such as a computer, or an analog recording device, such as a tape machine.
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