Micing Acoustic Guitar with dynamic mic

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Welcome to the club Mssy :)

I regularly record my acoustic (guitar) using only an M201 and one of the mixer channels on my 388.

The 388's pres have enough clean gain to enable me to mic the guitar at quite a good distance (around about 6 to 12 inches).
 
Note: That's for strummed acoustic. For fingerpicking (which I don't do that often as I'm rubbish at it) I break out the M201's lil omni brother, the M101 :D
 
That would involve me possessing a decent soundcard. I.E. one with a line input.

So, sorry, no :(
 
No probs.

I've been having a look round all the suggested gear and will consider it all once I get a bit of money! :) I may invest in a pair of monitors first. From what I've heard monitering through headphones dosen't let you know how well the instruments are sitting in the mix or somthing like that.
 
I've heard good things about the Kef hi-fi speakers from the 70s and 80s (Crestas I think, Han would be able to set me straight). Apparently they're much better than any of the cheap studio nearfields out there.

You can find them on eBay.
 
Stu, I have three very old M201's and I use them on snare, hi hat and ride cymbal.

The 201 sounds better on hi hat than many condensors, it'll give you a very tight and crisp sound and although I haven't used them on acoustic guitar because I have many mics, I'm certain that the 201 wil do very well on any acoustic (string) instrument.

I've used the 201 on many other things, it'll do great on trumpets, Tbones and other horns, it's the best snare mic, great on kick, toms, amped guitars and bass amps. In the near future I will use it on acoustic guitars, banjo and upright bass, just to find out how it sounds, I'll keep you guys posted.

One thing though, it doesn't have a high output, but neither has the Sennheiser MD441, so if you use it on soft instruments you better use a decent pre amp.

A true classic microphone, very rejective and a nice off axis response!

BTW, most Beyer microphones are great.

I'm sorry, I don't have a clip for you.
 
Mark7 said:
I've heard good things about the Kef hi-fi speakers from the 70s and 80s (Crestas I think, Han would be able to set me straight). Apparently they're much better than any of the cheap studio nearfields out there.

You can find them on eBay.
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Mark, actually I do have some 10 or 11 pair of IMF speakers and IMF did use many Kef drivers, but I think they were not very satisfied aboud them and began to devellop their own drivers, which indeed sound better.

I have a pair of KEF 104 ab reference series monitors in the studio that belong to my son and I can tell you they do sound nice, but a bit dull compaired to any IMF monitor, as if there's a curtain in front of the Kef.

I believe the old Cresta has a B110 bass/mid driver and a T27 tweeter and although the B110 is a great mid driver, it's a little small for low end and the T27 is a tad harsh compaired to the Audax tweeters.

Neverthless I think the Kef speakers are more usefull than many so called 'studio monitors', a very well know Jazz studio in the Netherlands uses Kef monitors and he gets jazz bands from all over the planet.
 
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