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.

Musicians