Glad to hear you liked the "over the shoulder" omni technique. For those of you who've tried it, and wondered how and why it works, here's a brief explanation:
1. By aiming the mic straight down, the carpet absorbs some of the high frequency reflections, and you get a more accurate picture of just the guitars sound.
2. By placing the mic near your ear, the mic is basically hearing how you hear the sound of the guitar.
3. It uses the players head as a gobo to block some of the finger squeeks. Also, since the mic is more directional at high frequencies, aiming it downward reduces the squeeks, compared to pointing a mic directly at the fingerboard.
4. It reduces the problem of uneven guitar radiation by getting the mic away from the front of the guitar.
5. It eliminates the proximity effect of close micing with cardioids, no bass boom.
6. It's a very repeatable setup that gives consistent results from session to session. (Miking from the front of a guitar will cause drastic changes with just slight differences in distance or angle.)
7. It is not as critical to slight player movements as front miking.
