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So IME string gauge , material and construction have a HUGE influence on the overall timbre including resonances. Steeno is dead on about getting the nut right also which is why using a capo does not just "raise the pitch". It actually changes the timbre and resonances also by changing the scale...

Capo it. You will be surprised at the difference. That's what I have to do with my Taylor. For non capo I went to my local guitar shop and played every single acoustic, no matter what the cost. I found a Yamaha that's perfect for recording. Then I messed it up by changing strings. Different...

I have been experimenting with different D'addario mixtures and gauges and IME this is a great way to get different timbres.

Capo's change more than the key , they affect the timbre a huge amount. I have used alternate tunings for things like stones/faces , zep tunes, slide , etc. Recently, one of my 'living room' guitars fell over and somehow it knokced the G string down to F# making the intervals between the...

Looking at the pic I would say if you want to get some room with figure 8 I would put it up nearer the ceiling ~ 1-1.5 feet below,pointed at the drums so the sides null. You will have some crazy cool build up that will sound horrible on it's own but with a bit of eq and compression and added to...

The NI servers IIRC are in Europe but ever since the merging of Plugin Alliance, Izotope and NI the pricing and sales/freebee deals have created something akin to a near constant load on there servers. Best option IME is to download a day or two after a sale when server traffic is reduced...

I have two mono room mic's: one behind the drummer, overhead pointed at the center of the snare and the other ~4-5 feet in front of the kit,~ 4 ft up and aimed sort of generally at the top of the kick. The back one get's all of the upper mids and top end, the front one get's the bottom. Both are...

Or get some auto body polyester/epoxy filler.

May I suggest an import mic that you can transfer the parts into?

This topic comes up a lot. The biggest issue is often arrangement and automation issues. Depending on the genre there are going to be different ideals. However, in any track that is supposed to be drum driven, the easiest way to keep levels even is to do more LCR where the only thing really...

So a couple things to address. First off, arrangement is king. One thing that separates pro mixes from the rest is to have and apply an overall view of how a track should flow. IOW they are hip to the idea that nobody can hear every instrument at the same time so there has to be a plan to...

I have the ability to record amps so that's what I do but there are a lot of 'bedroom' productions using amp sims that sound perfectly acceptable (depending on genre) however from what I have read/heard a good IR loader and speaker IRs are required to get it 'right'. I would guess that there...

I have the eq and i found it to be too noisy to use for recording. FIne for stage use tho

Chris was famous for splitting the dual outputs of his Rick to different amps and recording separate low end rythmic and higher pitched melodic parts. The guy was a quiet genius IMHO.

A compressor essentially acts as a leveling amplifier. Not all amplifiers have positive audio output gain which is counter intuitive but the leveling part means that the quiet parts and loud parts become more evenly loud at output. Every compressor I have ever used makes the midrange shift...

This is a good place to start

Yamaha parlor guitar. Good used can be had for ~ $300 USD. Very balanced and not so loud that your going to have less room interaction.

I have tried pairing photos of setups with audio references so I can reproduce a particular sound. Turns out; a) it only gets close and b) as a lone person running my personal studio I can't be bothered to check my own reference material when I want to record. Partly because I am in 'creative'...

Filter cap ghosty?

Balanced 1/4" connections/sockets should have two "click" points, one as the tip locks into the 'ring' contact (the first click) then a second click as the tip pushes past the ring and locks into the actual tip contact. If it is not either an insert or a stereo out/in socket then it 'should'...