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amuseddaysleeper
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How to eliminate pick scraping?

Anyone have any advice?

I try playing my pick at a different angle or recording further away from the mic but no matter what I still get that screeching pick sound under my acoustic guitar strumming

is there a way to eliminate this?

Post Tue Jan 02, 2007 9:39 am 
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RhoneRanger
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You are learning now that recording is much different than playing life. You have to be clean.. REALLY clean.

A lot of live players are unable to play in the studio for this very reason, and studio musicians can make a lot of money!

(I do it part time, and charge $40 an hour, including practice time. Most songs I need 2 hours to learn well, and add another hour for the actual studio time, that's 120 per song! )

The easiest way to reduce if not eliminate pick scrape, is use a harder pick, and strum lightly. Light picks are just crap for recording.

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