4 Hints and advanced tips  

4   Hints and advanced tips

This section gives a few hints and tips

which may be useful to you when you

make recordings using the Porta02.

4.1

Recording techniques

Learning how to record is an art, not a

you, and there are several good books on

science. One of the best teachers is expe 

the subject which can explain the theory

rience. However, there are a few things

of recording and some of the techniques.

mentioned here which may be useful to

4.1.1 Recording electric guitars

Much of the sound of an electric guitar

4.1.2 Recording with effects

(and also bass) is due to the effects,

Professional recordings often use effects

amplifier and speakers, as well as the gui 

like digital reverberation on vocals, etc.

tar and style of playing. If you plug the

You can add some of these effects by

guitar straight into the Porta02, you will,

plugging the microphone into an effects

of course, be able to record it, but the

unit, and plugging the unit into the

sound will probably not be what you are

Porta02. Note that the effects unit must

used to.

be able to accept microphone level sig 

nals, and will output to the Porta02 at

Plugging effects units between the guitar

LINE

 levels.

and the Porta02 will certainly help to pro 

duce a fuller sound. The sound which

In addition, you will need to use the inter 

will come closest to a live sound, though,

nal balance control in the unit to decide

will be provided by the amplifier itself.

how much of the  dry  (un effected)

sound will be passed through to the

You can adopt one of two approaches:

Porta02 for recording.

either to put a microphone in front of the

guitar speaker and record this (at 

MIC

If you do not have access to a reverbera 

level), or to connect the output of the pre 

tion unit, you can try recording vocals in

.amplifier to the Porta02 and record at

a very  live  room (without much furni 

LINE

 level.

ture).

WARNING

Do not connect the speaker output (or head 

phone output, if provided) of the amplifier to 

the Porta02. This will almost certainly dam 

age the Porta02, and may damage the ampli 

fier. Only use outputs which are marked 

LINE OUT

, 

PRE OUT

,

 DIRECT OUT 

and so on. Avoid using any outputs marked 

SPEAKER OUT

, 

SP OUT

, 

4

, 

8

, 

16

or the like.

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