Hi all, this is my first post here so bear with my if some of my questions are dumb. I'm going to be recording a female singer+songwriter+acoustic guitarist in a couple of weeks and I need some help deciding which mic to use. My school has an Equipment Room where I can take out a variety of microphones, but I dont have much experience with most of them so I wanted to hear some of your opinions. I was thinking of using two mic's - one for the vocals and one for the guitar, but I have heard some people suggest using one mic. Anyway, here is the list of mic's at my disposal:
AKG C414B/ULS
AKG C 460 B
Audio-Technica AT815B
Audio-Technica AT822
Audio-Technica AT825
Audio-Technica AT3035
Earthworks SR-77
Sennheiser MD-421
Shure SM57
Shure SM58
Which would be good for the female vocals and which would be good for acoustic guitar?
The ER (Equipment Room) doesn't have much of a preamp selection, so I'm going to use the preamps in a Mackie 1202 VLZ (PRO I think) because I've heard those are decent. I have a Powerbook G4 but I don't have a good quality audio interface...so unless I can find one I'll probably recording the mix to a Tascam DA-P1 PortaDAT. and then bring it into software through the school's G4 PowerMac with MBox.
As for the recording space, my school's radio station has a room that is acoustically treated and I think I should be able to get access to it to record in.
Another question I have...if I can find a good quality audio interface with more channels, I'd like to record the direct line out from the acoustic guitar...in which case, would I need to use a D.I.? or are those only for electric guitars?
Thanks to everybody for your input...I really appreciate any advice you can give me
AKG C414B/ULS
AKG C 460 B
Audio-Technica AT815B
Audio-Technica AT822
Audio-Technica AT825
Audio-Technica AT3035
Earthworks SR-77
Sennheiser MD-421
Shure SM57
Shure SM58
Which would be good for the female vocals and which would be good for acoustic guitar?
The ER (Equipment Room) doesn't have much of a preamp selection, so I'm going to use the preamps in a Mackie 1202 VLZ (PRO I think) because I've heard those are decent. I have a Powerbook G4 but I don't have a good quality audio interface...so unless I can find one I'll probably recording the mix to a Tascam DA-P1 PortaDAT. and then bring it into software through the school's G4 PowerMac with MBox.
As for the recording space, my school's radio station has a room that is acoustically treated and I think I should be able to get access to it to record in.
Another question I have...if I can find a good quality audio interface with more channels, I'd like to record the direct line out from the acoustic guitar...in which case, would I need to use a D.I.? or are those only for electric guitars?
Thanks to everybody for your input...I really appreciate any advice you can give me