BorisMusic
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The difference will be negligible. It might shave off a tiny tiny bit of high end. Pop filters are meant for stopping bursts of air from reaching the diaphragm of the microphone. I don't think there would be any arguments that you would leave it off except when recording vocals.
In the video, I don't hear any real trickery going on. The acoustic guitar sounds mono and centered, close-miked, with a bit of compression on it. It's a good-sounding guitar in the first place. Relatively new strings and set up pretty well. There's probably some EQ on the guitar to get rid of some low end, since it's a pretty large dreadnaught and it doesn't sound boomy.
Both voices sound centered and compressed as well, and there is some subtle reverb on the vocal and even subtler reverb on the acoustic. I think that the reverb is providing the only stereo content in the song.
Thanks Tadpui. I might change strings on mine, It's a pretty decent Ibanez acoustic electric V74ECE-OPN, it has a nice sound but I need to be able to capture it better to have it sit well in my mix and sound natural instead of distorted. How should I set my compression on guitar and vocals? Do I turn the gain up in the plug-in? How do I know if I'm going over the top? In the video I posted, their sound is very full and even right across, there's enough bass and depth to make it sound good (but not too much), there's no hissing. Mine sounds thin, I think that's one of the big problems I have.