I would love some help on getting great single take acoustic guitar and vocal recordings with my two channel alesis io2 express. Here is what I am doing now with my two mics. It seems to work pretty well, but I want to improve:
1: Close up vocal into At2020 condenser
2: AKG D5 on the guitar body.
I use the guitar body mic to add low mids for the guitar, since the vocal mic picks up guitar and becomes thin as I EQ the vocal. I pan the tracks slightly off center, add a light chorus to the guitar, and reverb sends on both tracks. I mess around with compression by ear until I'm happy. The only other thing that sounds decent is using just at2020 from a couple feet, but it's a compromise for both guitar and vocals.
1: Close up vocal into At2020 condenser
2: AKG D5 on the guitar body.
I use the guitar body mic to add low mids for the guitar, since the vocal mic picks up guitar and becomes thin as I EQ the vocal. I pan the tracks slightly off center, add a light chorus to the guitar, and reverb sends on both tracks. I mess around with compression by ear until I'm happy. The only other thing that sounds decent is using just at2020 from a couple feet, but it's a compromise for both guitar and vocals.