Man this is going to surprise you. I have spent ALOT of time using GARBAGE for recording equipment, and I think I have gotten better at using this stuff haha. I had rented some better preamps and condenser mic's but things just turn out horrible. I started using nothing but a cheap computer mic months ago, but with this tune, I basically split the on board sound card's line-in input (its asus's dobly digital onboard soundcard) into left and right channel with a splitter. I used my crappy zoom 505II guitar pedal as a preamp for my shure sm57 and placed it about 5" from where the neck meets body. For the left channel, I just plugged my old twangy acoustic pickup on there and adjusted some volume levels at mixdown. Im somewhat surprised with the quality, but I have finally decided that recording an instrument in stereo, or at least double tracking somehow in stereo makes everything sound bigger and better.
As for my guitar... Im playing a 1964 Yamaha Fg-180 Nippon Gakki. Its not a red label, its a white label because I believe this was their first production year. Supposedly it was built with the same quality as alot of the martin's are today. It needs about 800.00 worth of work to get it back up to perfect looks, but I mean I cant find a guitar for under 3000.00 that sounds better than this.
Thanks for input man.
You have done something right with finding a good natural sounding acoustic tone. Good composition as well.