Hi
I feel that I'm fairly competent at getting an acoustic guitar to sit well in a full band set up mix as backing, however I often shy away from leaving a track raw ( that I'd prefer raw) because I feel I can't get an acoustic to sound strong enough on its own with minimal backing. I usually end up doing so much layering of guitars that I lose the sense of the song it was meant to be. So, my question is, what effects / eq / other tricks do folk add to their raw acoustic tracks to get them feeling fuller?
I'm recording using a matched pair of Rode M5s and familiar with the standard poisoning of the mics for acoustic guitar. I record using Reaper and obviously have access to to full cockos effects set along with JS and others ive downloaded.
Cheers, Mark
I feel that I'm fairly competent at getting an acoustic guitar to sit well in a full band set up mix as backing, however I often shy away from leaving a track raw ( that I'd prefer raw) because I feel I can't get an acoustic to sound strong enough on its own with minimal backing. I usually end up doing so much layering of guitars that I lose the sense of the song it was meant to be. So, my question is, what effects / eq / other tricks do folk add to their raw acoustic tracks to get them feeling fuller?
I'm recording using a matched pair of Rode M5s and familiar with the standard poisoning of the mics for acoustic guitar. I record using Reaper and obviously have access to to full cockos effects set along with JS and others ive downloaded.
Cheers, Mark