Armistice
Son of Yoda
So, I know this comes up from time to time, and I used to do it but never really thought it added much as most "pickup to desk" sounds are fairly crap...
What I have discovered is that, instead of taking a line from the acoustic pickup straight to the desk, if I run it through my Class A tube amp in another room at low volume and route that back to the board via an LDC, when added to the two mics I have on the guitar (an AKG SDC and LDC at 12th and 5th frets respecitively) it fills a sonic hole that's been bugging me for years...
I take all the bass off the amp and have mid and highs at about 50% - on its own you can imagine what that sounds like, but added in, just a bit, to the other two channels, it gives a much more "present" sound in the high end which saves me reaching for the EQ on the miked channels and thus introducing further system noise...
And you'll have noticed I'm using an SDC and an LDC instead of the "normal" method of two SDCs, and that the LDC is up over the fretboard. Gets rid of all that excess bass I used to spend hours EQing out..
Bear in mind I do instrumental acoustic guitar-based music, so the acoustic guitar is much more audible in the mix than in your basic pop/rock song mix...
Worth a try if you're not happy with your recorded acoustic sound...
Cheers
What I have discovered is that, instead of taking a line from the acoustic pickup straight to the desk, if I run it through my Class A tube amp in another room at low volume and route that back to the board via an LDC, when added to the two mics I have on the guitar (an AKG SDC and LDC at 12th and 5th frets respecitively) it fills a sonic hole that's been bugging me for years...
I take all the bass off the amp and have mid and highs at about 50% - on its own you can imagine what that sounds like, but added in, just a bit, to the other two channels, it gives a much more "present" sound in the high end which saves me reaching for the EQ on the miked channels and thus introducing further system noise...
And you'll have noticed I'm using an SDC and an LDC instead of the "normal" method of two SDCs, and that the LDC is up over the fretboard. Gets rid of all that excess bass I used to spend hours EQing out..
Bear in mind I do instrumental acoustic guitar-based music, so the acoustic guitar is much more audible in the mix than in your basic pop/rock song mix...
Worth a try if you're not happy with your recorded acoustic sound...
Cheers