JohnnyAmato
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So I walk into Guitar Center last week for a few cables. Walked out with a $4,000 Taylor An 816ce Grand Symphony.
Wrote and recorded a few new songs with it, and this is one of them. I decided to post this one because the Taylor literally did all the guitar tracks, rhythms and leads. It was capo'd on the third fret.
I don't have too much experience recording acoustics, so I did a few different things here:
-Hard left is the direct electric signal from simply plugging it in.
-Hard right there's a mic'd track, that had a mic on the soundhole, and another mic on the body. The body track (which was obviously softer) is panned just a tad off center to the left, like 20%. Both mics were SM58s.
The leads/fills/melodies were all done just plugging it in and obviously all centered (except for few fills slightly to the right)
Issues/Questions:
The mic'd tracks are much warmer. The plugged-in track has way more mids and is a bit more harsh, but all three together sound huge, especially when the three are solo'd together. I'm hoping the plugged-in track isn't too mid-strong, or too harsh and taking away from the song, by clashing with the leads and melodies, since they are basically the same tones. I do have a spare mic'd rhythm track from another good take, but when I swap it with the left side (so both sides are now different mic'd tracks) It doesn't sound as good to me, it's almost too big and deep. Although the leads seemed in a better space that way...
I also tried using only the one mic'd track, with the soundhole mic hard right and the body mic hard left. It sounded good, but seemed like it was missing something.
Am I over-thinking it? Are two different acoustic rhythm tracks panned hard left and right common, like with electrics? Or is it basically a no no, and I should use just the one mic'd track (hole and body) and just get that to sound the best I can? I can easily post that version for comparison if anyone wants to hear it. Any other general mix comments are welcome as well, as this one will be getting vocals soon. Thanks ahead of time for any input!
Taylor Song Mix 1 | Johnny Amato
Wrote and recorded a few new songs with it, and this is one of them. I decided to post this one because the Taylor literally did all the guitar tracks, rhythms and leads. It was capo'd on the third fret.
I don't have too much experience recording acoustics, so I did a few different things here:
-Hard left is the direct electric signal from simply plugging it in.
-Hard right there's a mic'd track, that had a mic on the soundhole, and another mic on the body. The body track (which was obviously softer) is panned just a tad off center to the left, like 20%. Both mics were SM58s.
The leads/fills/melodies were all done just plugging it in and obviously all centered (except for few fills slightly to the right)
Issues/Questions:
The mic'd tracks are much warmer. The plugged-in track has way more mids and is a bit more harsh, but all three together sound huge, especially when the three are solo'd together. I'm hoping the plugged-in track isn't too mid-strong, or too harsh and taking away from the song, by clashing with the leads and melodies, since they are basically the same tones. I do have a spare mic'd rhythm track from another good take, but when I swap it with the left side (so both sides are now different mic'd tracks) It doesn't sound as good to me, it's almost too big and deep. Although the leads seemed in a better space that way...
I also tried using only the one mic'd track, with the soundhole mic hard right and the body mic hard left. It sounded good, but seemed like it was missing something.
Am I over-thinking it? Are two different acoustic rhythm tracks panned hard left and right common, like with electrics? Or is it basically a no no, and I should use just the one mic'd track (hole and body) and just get that to sound the best I can? I can easily post that version for comparison if anyone wants to hear it. Any other general mix comments are welcome as well, as this one will be getting vocals soon. Thanks ahead of time for any input!
Taylor Song Mix 1 | Johnny Amato
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