Acoustic Guitar Recording 101

[Carlos Quintas]

nice man

[goodstudios]

Making an acoustic sound acoustic after amplified has been almost a lifelong endervor...lol Until recently. We put BBands in our acoustics and simply plug 'em in a record.... sounds too easy I know. But it works well.

[sciencebase]

Excellent. Need this. Just starting out in home recording, got a condenser microphone and an M-Audio USB box to connect to my laptop. Experimenting with different mike positions...love the mixing process...

[silvercn]

Speaking of MId-side (using the figure 8 and mid mic routine / decoding) have a few questions: If "side" track needs EQ tweaking - is it best done before you split and decode it to L+R - ? Or would it be better to leave it alone - and then EQ the L and R sides to taste, seperately?

My other question - what are the suggestions out there for a professional reference song of acoustic guitar solo, to use for my mixing?

Thanks !

[WhiteStrat]

Try an Audio Envy cable to hear a more accurate reproduction. There is a lot of amazing harmonic textures and richness that comes back.

Really?

Perhaps you could post an A/B comparison of an acoustic guitar recording with a "regular" cable, and one with an Audio Envy cable? My ears are quite sensitive--I'm sure I'd hear the amazing harmonic textures and richness that comes back.

[adventureboy]

interesting read. Thanks

[adventureboy]

actually, I need some advice on something. I need to start a new thread on this subject

[Jackster]

Thanks for the great work. Your article has helped me improve my recording of acoustic guitars.

[WhiteStrat]

Thanks for the great work. Your article has helped me improve my recording of acoustic guitars.

You're welcome! Have fun recording--I look forward to hearing your results!

[mbooe]

Great Tutorial, thanks. There's another technique I've heard about but I don't quite know how to pull off in pro tools. George Martin used to double the Beatles vocals by duplicating a track, but offsetting it by a split second so that he got the extra dimension of another live performance. Anybody tried that one?