Blog 2: First Recording Sessions

[3/16/26 - 3/30/26] During the latter half of March, local musician Mark Hitchcox came into the studio several times to record an original song.

The first session [3/16/26], saw the initial tracking of the guitar and vocals. For the vocals, we used a small diaphragm condenser mic, while we used an AKG 414 and a Beeznees Judas for the acoustic guitar. This setup allowed for a lot of body in the guitar and a very natural sounding vocal. The overall session went very well, only requiring a few takes full takes to get a satisfying recording for that day in particular.

After the guitar and vox were tracked, Rob and Mark worked together on sequencing midi upright bass and violas to help fill out the empty space and make the song sound more full. From here I was able to make note of Rob’s processing skills that helped these midi instruments sound far more natural.

Over the course of a few weeks, Mark came back in to deliver a vocal and guitar overdubs. This was because of large amount of bleed in several of the mics, causing discrepancy between the takes chosen for each track.

For these sessions, I spent most of the time setting up, and helping Rob shoot out the various Mics. In my next blog, I will discuss the mixing process we went through in the following weeks.