Mic recommendations for acoustic guitar

[bbZ]

littlemutt, do you always take things soooo seriously??

social skills in Rock & Roll? Brawhahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!

lighten up! there's cool war about to happen on primetime...

bbz

 

[littledog]

i prefer to laugh with people rather than at them, although with you i might make an exception...

 

[Mark7]

Let me ask everyone else here. Has anyone, other than bbz, noticed this hissiness in the ECM8000 that he refers to?

 

[bbZ]

littleMutt - you sound like my wife!

 

[Chris Tondreau]

proof is in the pudding...

Well... If you won't take Harvey's word for it (God knows why you wouldn't.... you'll see for yourself how knowledgeable he is if you go find "The big thread"), then here is something I just recorded for the purpose of this thread.

It's an intermediate level acoustic guitar (Norman B20) with old strings. I miked up a pair of ECM8000's in an XY configuration (sort of, anyway... capsules about 2 inches apart, a little less than 90 degree angle) pointing roughly at the 12th fret. Both mics were plugged into my Behringer MX802A mixer (yes... ), and directly to my Delta 44 soundcard into Cubase. There was NO EQ, NO compression, NO effects/signal processing going into Cubase. Once recorded and playing back, I was wishing that I had engaged the Lo cut on the mixer, but I didn't, so I applied only enough EQ to roll off the low frequencies below about 100hz. Nothing else... completely raw.

In retrospect, I should have placed the mics a little lower so that they were angled more toward the top strings than the bottom so as to reduce the "boominess" a bit more naturally... oh, welll...

It's one take (there are mistakes in it), and it's short - about 44 sec. and about a half a meg as mp3.

I don't hear any excessive hiss... do you?

Click on ECM8000 demo

Chris

 

[littledog]

littleMutt - you sound like my wife!

obviously you have better taste in women than she has in men...

 

[Mark7]

Hey Chris

Sounded fine to me. I think our friend either has a faulty unit, or a snake has taken up residence in his studio. I'd like to know what bbz has tried to record with the ECM8000.

 

[Chris Tondreau]

If I remember right, bbz posted a classical guitar piece in the mp3 mixing clinic. Although well-played, I did comment on the hiss that seemed to run through the recording. I suggested that, perhaps, it was a problem with gain-staging or something like that. He was certain that the problem was his microphones, as evidenced by an A/B test that he had claimed he did.

Chris

 

[bbZ]

my what a nice little clique you got going in here.

chris, have you done your required A/B test with them yet?

I didn't think so.

Chris: F

 

[Mark7]

You're a very bitter man. Why do you have this insane urge to turn everyone against the ECM8000? Are you Greg Mackie in disguise?

 

[bbZ]

Por chris the mountie. are you and little mutt married or something? You both sound like a couple of humorless women.

Ur constant whining and borderline psycho focus on a lame problem like the 8000's makes me laugh.

Oh, I forgot, you're Canadian, eh? No wonder your pissed off. You can take the collective musical talent of Canada, stuff it into the navel of a flea, and STILL have room left for 6 caraway seeds and an agent's heart.

canada - man, you have some nerve

little mutt - is that lame wanna-be music school Berklee still there?

bbz

 

[Chris Tondreau]

chris, have you done your required A/B test with them yet?

I didn't think so.

Chris: F

Required A/B test with what? I was simply demonstrating that the mics themselves are NOT excessively hissy. Did my recording sound hissy to you?

As far as littledog and me being married... yeah, we used to be married, but I recently filed for divorce after a big arguement about cable testers and intellectual laziness.

Chris

 

[Track Rat]

Sweetnubs & bbZ. Two pissed at the world self proclaimed pros. Hmmmm.

 

[DJL]

I think we're wasting our time with bbZ, it's obvious he's a prick.

 

[Richard Monroe]

Can you say "ignore list"? I knew you could.-Richie

 

[Freudian Slip]

Did I come at a bad time??? No, no that's alright, I'll show my self the door.




F.S.

 

[littledog]

I always just wonder what conceivable benefit or pleasure sociopaths like bbZ could possibly get out of hanging out on a site such as this. Isn't there someplace else he/she could go where his/her shining intellect and wit wouldn't get dragged down into the mud by talentless, ignorant, and humorless hacks like myself? What masochistic urge could possibly be strong enough to make bbZ want to stay here and suffer?