I just did a bluegrass type session last night for Project Jackson ( www.myspace.com/projectjackson ), and got a bunch of pictures of mic setups and all that stuff so I thought I'd post 'em here. We had an upright bass, a banjo, an electric guitar, an acoustic guitar, and a fiddle. We had the acoustic guitar in an isolation room mic'd up with a pair of Neumann KM 184's in an X-Y configuration. The mics were approximately 1.5 feet off of the twelfth fret with one pointed at the bridge and the other pointed at the nut.
The upright bass was also in an isolation room mic'd up with a Rode NT2 about three feet off of the instrument to allow those low frequencies to really develop. It was set about 2 feet higher than the bridge, but pointed down towards it.
We had the electric guitar, the fiddle, and the banjo all in the main live room. The guitar amp was mic'd with a Neumann U87, and we also ran one channel direct.
The fiddle was an electric fiddle, so we just ran it in direct in, no mic. Then we had another Neumann U87 on the banjo, about 2 feet off of the instrument pointed directly at the bridge.
Sorry, I'm not much of a photographer, but hopefully with the descriptions, you get a feel for what I'm talking about
The upright bass was also in an isolation room mic'd up with a Rode NT2 about three feet off of the instrument to allow those low frequencies to really develop. It was set about 2 feet higher than the bridge, but pointed down towards it.
We had the electric guitar, the fiddle, and the banjo all in the main live room. The guitar amp was mic'd with a Neumann U87, and we also ran one channel direct.
The fiddle was an electric fiddle, so we just ran it in direct in, no mic. Then we had another Neumann U87 on the banjo, about 2 feet off of the instrument pointed directly at the bridge.
Sorry, I'm not much of a photographer, but hopefully with the descriptions, you get a feel for what I'm talking about
