Recording Rhuari Campbell

Another set of recordings i carried out was with a solo artists from Dundee called Rhuari Campbell who plays folk music and folk/rock with his band Get Tay Folk. We were supposed to be carrying out the recordings in a venue however due to lack of preparation and time to find a venue we carried out the recordings in my living room. Although this is not an ideal representation of a gig, we continued to carry out the recordings on the basis that some live events do not contain crowds for instance live performances on radio stations.

Recording Equipment:

• Digidesign 003 rack plus
• Macbook pro with pro tools le 8
• 3 x Earthworks DK25/L microphones
• 2 x Neumann KM 184 microphones 
• Sony MDR-V500 headphones 
• KRK RP8 Monitors
• Focusrite ISA one mic pre
• Appropriate cabling and stands

Track List:

1. Earthwork with mic pre
2. Front left
3. Front right
4. Back left
5. Back right

Unfortunately due to wiring issues with Rhuari's guitar we were not able to recording a DI track of his acoustic. The following Pictures show the microphone placement, the Earthworks with the mic pre was placed around 6-9 inches in front of the IRT Cross:

Evaluation:

The whole recording process went fairly well, however there are a few things that could of been improved. I noticed after Rhuari had left, that two of the tracks we recorded contained slight interference from a mobile phone. Unfortunately there is nothing i can do about this except re-record the tracks that contain the interference but we were unable to because of busy schedules, so it is important to remember for future recordings to switch off all mobile phones within the recording space. Another issue i mentioned earlier was that Rhuari had some wiring issues with his guitar so we were unable to record a DI track, again there is nothing i could do about this except to ensure for future recordings that all equipment is working properly and if not get it fixed!