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I'd like to settle on a decent mic for recording acoustic guitar and Dobro, and my budget is about $500. This is a very broad question, I realize, but I'd like to hear from some folks with experience recording acoustic instrument, thanks!

I've been away from recording for a while but would like to get back to it. My current issue is this: I'm recording acoustic guitar with a condenser mic into a Scarlett 18i20 into GarageBand 10.1.6 - (my iMac is too old to update). After recording a track, I'd like to mute the mic to avoid...

My ten year old TASCAM 2488 seems to be failing, and I'm again looking at the option of moving to a desktop computer based recording system. My recording projects consist of acoustic string band music, with vocals. I've dug out my older iMac and it seems to run fine. It's an early 2008 with the...

I've been recording of my acoustic string music on and off for many years; originally with a TASCAM 788 and with a 2488 for the past ten years or so. Apparently, the CD burner function of the 2488 has failed, and I'm in a situation where I'd like to be using it a lot, recording demos for the...

I want to use the mid side technique on an acoustic guitar project, and I have a question about how I can best do this with my Tascam 2488. I realize that the standard procedure is to duplicate the side recording and then put one of these tracks out of phase with the other. With the Tascam...

Where can I find a clip that will allow me to mount my C1000s to a mic stand? All the clips I see advertised are too small. The cheap plastic one that came with the mic failed, and the AKG SA 63 that I bought to replace it is threaded for some other type of mic stand, and I've returned it...

I'll have added two figure 8 mics to my collection next week, and I'm wondering how the Blumlein technique would work with an acoustic duo. One guy sings and plays guitar, I sing and play Dobro. Of course, the definitive way to answer this question is to "try it", which I will, but I wondered if...

I've "dabbled" in recording for the past several years, using a TASCAM 2488 MKII desktop recorder. While the quality of my recordings is acceptable, I get very frustrated with using the 2488 and am considering switching to a computer based DAW. I"m sure there are potentially plenty of...

I've been recording a singer/songwriter who plays acoustic guitar while he sings, and he likes to be seated while we record. I'm using two mics, a Rode NTK w/pop screen for the vocal and an MXL V67N on his D18. My problem is that I'm getting a lot of guitar on the vocal track, to the point that...

My Rode NTK is about seven years old, and it seems to have gotten noisier lately. I primarily use it to record acoustic guitar and, when I'm working at a level that works with my TASCAM 2488, it seems like I hear a lot more background noise than I used to. Today, I hooked up another mic for...

I'm recording some acoustic string instruments with vocal, and would appreciate some suggestions regarding placement of the various tracks in the stereo image. I'm typically using a single vocal track, a rhythm guitar, a rhythm mandolin chop, upright bass, dobro and mandolin playing leads and...