Tracking the Troubador - Acoustic Guitar & Vocals Live

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Here at The Coolest Recording Studio in London Town - we get all kindsa musicians rolling through the door to conceptualise & make real their dreams & visions. 
Here's how we deal with your live singer guitarist - your performance artiste - they may not have great recording technique - but they sure can turn the fire on - & that's what we got to capture.

Generally sonorous, storytelling types like Joan Baez / Woody Guthrie  \ Leadbelly et al - these folks need to be in the zone - there's generally no overdubs or performances stitched together - they want it done live - they want it done proper!
So - this time with Mr Ben Holland - we set up a dedicated vocal mic set approx 18 inches away from his mouth. Then we set up two identical ribbon microphones - one facing the head, & one facing the guitar body. Angled like this the top one should reject guitar noise, & the bottom one should reject vocal noise - done right it works beautifully.
king krule meets ghostpoet in london recording studio

We then added a large bodied vintage Tannoy ribbon mic on the other side & set this back two and a half feet - this adds more ambience:
king krule mixing with micachu at london recording studio
Please note the unplugged (dead) microphone he is singing into - this is to give the artist some focus & to stop them leaning in to the live recording microphones.
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