Guitar Recording at Alchemy Studios - Guitar Recording Studio
Electric Guitar Recording
Alchemy Studios is known for huge guitar sounds. Usually the guitar goes through a DI to make re-amping possible if needed. Often the guitar signal is split send one signal to an amplifier in the guitar room and another to an 11 rack procsessor for 3 tracks total per take. Sometimes the solution is to double mic the amp speaker using a dark mic / bright mic strategy. Alchemy Studios has some excellent guitar mic choices including the Royer 121.
Guitar Recording Room at Alchemy Studios - Guitar Recording Studio Room
The Guitar Room
The guitar iso room is approx. 6 x 7 x 8 with non-parallel walls and sonic absorbers. Usually the speaker or amp is placed inside the room and mic'ed. Then the amp can be turned up to a reasonable recording level with out leakage into the rest of the studio. When possible the amp head will be placed outside the room so as to make sound adjustment easier.
Guitar Recording Studio - Guitar Recording Studios
Acoustic Guitar Recording
We haven't forgotten the acoustic instruments! The vocal room is a wonderful environment to record acoustic instruments including guitars. Often a multiple mic setup is desired to accurately capture the full sound of your instrument. For more details, hit the link and check out our acoustic recording page. Acoustic
Guitar Editing at Alchemy Studios - Guitar editing Recording Studio
Guitar Editing
Almost anything is possible, a good take is always preferable but occasionally you may want to fix something. In the case of solos - sometimes extensive editing is required, sometimes it the only way to get that elusive "sound in your head".
We can re-amp your performance to get the sound you need, We can insert or overdub new fills or whole parts, trade/exchange parts from one take to another, loop parts and adjust pitch or timing issues.
The Studio Guitars and Amps
The following amps and guitars are generally in the studio and available for your use.
Triple Rectifier/Acoustic 270 Orange OR15 Marshall Valvestate 100
4 x 12 w/Eminence Speakers Mesa 1-12 Cab 4 x 10 w/Celestions
Fender Stratocaster Epiphone Les Paul Hamer Gold Archtop
Hagstrom Ultraswede Epiphone Cherry Casino Strat style 12 string
Jackson Warrior Jackson Randy Rhodes Jackson style 7 string
Musicians
If you should need musicians, Alchemy Studios producer Jeff Muller can play all the instruments in the studio. We can also hire expert players for any additional parts you need - for more info click the link.
