Recording Koto at Vista

Today, we are doing a trial recording of the Koto instrument. This is to notate down some of the possible problems and for us to ensure that we can get a 'clean' sound during future recordings.

Some of the key issues we will be dealing with today is:

- Mic placement: getting the best possible sound for koto instrument

- Proper mic gain: ensuring that levels are not clipping

- Ensure a high signal-to-noise ratio: high signal output

- Tuning the koto instrument

- Playing to a metronome: playing on time so that we can used samples for our song compositions