Recording Week 5: Extra Parts

For our last week of recording we recorded two additional parts for the song; a mandola and a piano part. To record the mandola we used an SEX1 condenser with a cardioid polar pattern to pick up just the sound from the mandola without any room ambiance. We used tremolo strumming on the mandola in the verses, then switching to strummed chords in the bridges. In addition to the mandola we also had a keyboard part to record. The keyboard was simply D/I’d into the desk from the live room, playing chords in the verses.