Recording Acoustic Guitars - mono? Stereo? Where do you stick them?

[mjbphotos]

I'm probably an odd duck, in that I still like to "double track" acoustic guitars (just like I do with electric guitars). Which in turn gives it a bit of a "stereo sound".

If it works for you, great, but what I have found is that unless the guitar/sound/playing changes between the 2 takes, some weird phasing-like issues can happen when the strumming doesn't match exactly. If you extreme pan and/or use headphones you may never notice, but if you listen in mono it can become quite distracting.

 

[Ujn Hunter]

If it works for you, great, but what I have found is that unless the guitar/sound/playing changes between the 2 takes, some weird phasing-like issues can happen when the strumming doesn't match exactly. If you extreme pan and/or use headphones you may never notice, but if you listen in mono it can become quite distracting.

I never listen in mono, and I'm a stickler for making the strumming match exactly... so I probably don't notice.

 

[grimtraveller]

The differences between pros and home recordists are obvious.

They are. There again, Tom Dowd doesn't record guitars for me and I like the sounds that I do get, so it's kind of moot. I'm not after any person's sound.