Myra

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I'd say you're off to a great start. Very clean recording with lots of good separation between the elements.

Tell us more about the set up. What's direct vs. what's mic'd? The acoustic sounds like a pickup instead of a mic. You oughta try micing it. BTW--that's a very cool chord progression on the guitars.

Good luck and keep it up!
 
Thanks for the reply. :)

You, sir, are correct. The acoustic is DI'd, two separate tracks, one panned far left, the other panned far right, playing the identical lines. Although I've picked up an SM57 (DMP3 pres), I've been having some trouble getting it to sound clear. I tried mixing the mic'd sound with the DI sound, but it didn't quite have the effect I was looking for, and found this solution to work better. I'm sure more experimentation would yield better results.

The vocals were done with the MXL 4000 (ie MusiciansFriend version of the 2010, I believe), and I'm trying to solve issues with clipping, especially in the chorus, which is why the voice sounds a bit distant. I can't exactly tell what in the chain is causing the distortion when I turn the levels up, but again...this is a new studio and half (or more) of the trouble right now is trying to isolate issues and resolve them.
 
The DI'd guitar doesn't sound "horrible" and I'm sure it sounds better than it would with the 57. An acoustic really needs a condenser mic. I use a small diaphragm, but I've gotten good results with a large diaphragm vocal style mic too. Next time around give it a try with your vocal mic, and use the same approach--double track, send one left, one right.

Odds are, after a little tweaking the mic placement, you'll get a much warmer more realistic sound out of that acoustic.
 
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