Michael's Texas Embrace

(Note, the samples are gone. No play.)

I got my sweet recording soundcard today! (The Echo Mia Midi) So I hooked up my little 6 channel mixer (also new) and my condenser mic and my cheapo dynamic mic up and ran some quick test records with some acoustic instruments. Man! This soundcard is quiet! No noise whatsoever until recording begins, and then everything is crystal clear and sweet. The two mics and the mixer work great too. (obviously this post is for the other recording nerds out there...)

test 1

This first demo is just an acoustic guitar. I used both mics and panned them to seperate sides for a sort of stereo effect, though the condenser mic is closer so that side is louder. Good reproduction of the sound though! Clearest acoustic I've ever recorded!

test 2

This second one is the same guitar run, but I added some mandolin and whistling, and moved them between the mics so they move around the stereo field, giving them a fancy panning effect. Whoa!

test 3

Here's test three, which is some of all the other stuff in a new little musical thing, and I added some chorus effect with a pedal ran through the FX send on the mixer, which I twist the knob in and out at the end. It sort of makes it sound like an organ, but it's just the acoustic guitar with chorus coming through the condenser mic being faded in manually and live as I played. Oh yeah!

P.s. This post was super geeky. Rock!