Chords for How to Record Guitar for Youtube Videos by Adam Rafferty - Part 1

_ [F#m] _ _ _ [E] _ Hey gang, how [A] you doing?
This is Adam Rafferty, [E] funky finger style guitarist out of New [D] York
City.
In [F#] this video, I'm going to do [Em] a little lesson [B] on how I record my guitar for [A] YouTube
videos.
[E] And I'm going to try to go fast, and I'm going to list all the links of any equipment.
I'm going to explain the equipment, and I'm going to explain my process of using the equipment,
so that you hopefully [F] can use some of this knowledge [N] and get some nice sounding videos
happening.
Maybe your videos sound good, but maybe this will give you a new idea.
So, [F#] anyway,
I've got a little cheat sheet here.
I'm going to run down the equipment that [C#] I use. _
Maton
Michael Fix model guitar, and there's going to be another video coming soon just about
my guitar.
[E] The camera that I'm speaking [N] to right now to talk to you is a Canon Vixia
HF M40.
Whatever, models come and go.
If you pick up a pretty decent camera, you'll be
in good shape.
Now, what you don't see, I have these two lights that I got from a company
called Adorama in New York City.
It's really cool because it's pitch black outside now.
It's 8 o'clock at night.
I'm here shooting video.
So, light is, I've found to be _ as important,
if not more important than the camera because when a camera is shooting with low light,
it doesn't look so good.
Okay, I'm going to go real quick.
I use a good old 2008 MacBook,
one of the white plastic ones, MacBook computer.
There are two pieces of software.
One is called
Audacity.
That's a free download.
You're going to need to do a little bit of utility stuff
with that, which I'll explain to you.
I think we're going to do some screen grabs because
it's, if you see [C] what I do, it's a little easier.
[Em] And I use Max GarageBand for a [D#] basic
mix. _ _
Just a quick, this goes without saying, I put a brand new set of strings on before
I shoot a video, just as if it were a gig.
So, these are [E] from a couple days ago when
I did a Beatles video, [Bm] but brand new strings.
Make sure you're in tune and practice the
piece enough before you get in front of the camera.
Now, the one [A#] piece that I did not
mention that is, of [E] course, there are many different pieces of equipment you could use.
There's many different ways to do the same thing, but I'm recording the audio on a Zoom
H4.
Now, I'm going to see if I can zoom in on the Zoom right there.
I don't know if I
can.
And I want to show you how I'm recording.
Now, I am not using these microphones.
[D] I'm
[E] plugged into the back.
I've got the [Em] Phantom Power on.
That's the Plus 48.
_ Oh, excuse me,
I almost failed to mention, I have an [B] Octava MK319 large condenser [E] microphone right here.
Sometimes I use Rode microphones.
What I do, don't get hung up on the brand, what I do
recommend is a condenser microphone.
You're going to get a very nice sound from that.
Watch what's [A] happening here.
When I [Em] play, _ you are not only hearing [N] this microphone,
you are also hearing the direct.
I have the guitar plugged directly into one of the inputs
on the back of the Zoom.
I don't know if you can see that.
_ _ So, essentially, what's happening
is _ _ I'm recording audio of a direct guitar signal because I love the sound of the mate
and pickup and a mic signal.
I blend the two when I do a mix.
_ _ _ I just find I'm the kind
of player, I make noises with my mouth, I rustle around.
I've got [G#] people being beaten
up outside my window, ambulances, school children getting out of school at 2.30,. screaming at the top of their lungs. The direct signal helps you, listeners, not hear that. But the microphone brings in a little taste of the real fingers on the strings. What I'm going to do is I'm going to play just a short passage. _ You're going to hear [C#] the different sounds. I'm going to do this in the mix. I'm going to move this microphone down towards the guitar a little bit. Something like this. _ _ [E] You probably heard a big bump from that. Now, let's listen [F#] to just the DI. I'm just going to play [E] a little bit of a D chord or something. This is just _ [Dm] the guitar going into the H4, which is now on the floor. _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ [C#] _ [A] _ _ _ _ [C]
That was something between Here Comes the Sun and Bach. I'm not thinking about playing right now, I'm [E] thinking about talking. Now, I'll play the same sort of D chord mish-mash and we'll only listen [Am] to this microphone. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[E] When I do a blending of [N] those two in the final edit stages of just the audio in GarageBand, it starts to sound really good. Oh, I left out one thing. I do the audio completely separately and then when I bring it back into iMovie, I use iMovie for the video editing where I put the nice little letters and blurring and all that. I turn the audio from the camera all the way off on the screen. You're not hearing any of the mic going in the camera. Basically, the audio and the video are coming from two separate places. _ That just gives me greater flexibility to massage the audio track to get it to sound as perfect as I can get it to sound. Once in a while, almost never, once in a while, I do make mistakes and I'll edit. If I botch a chord, I'll just put a little slice in. If I totally screw something up. I know I shouldn't admit that. I should give you the illusion that I'm perfect all the time, but I'm not. I make mistakes too, but if it's a good take, I'd like to keep it. _ _ Let's go now to the screen. Let me show you real quick what I do in Audacity and GarageBand with a couple screen grabs and everything. We'll see on the screen and I hope you're having