Nylon string acoustic

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Armistice

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Can anyone give me a starting point with miking a nylon string? Tried searching but couldn't separate it out from steel string.

I have NT5s, MXL603s, AKG 451, AKG 414, NT2, SM57

I need to do this in a bit of a hurry or I'd just muck around and see what it all sounded like.

What I'm recording needs to cut through a busy mix with lots of other steel string acoustic guitars, bass, keyboards, no drums, no vocals and it's a few minor "lead" sections, so picked notes (with plectrum) not chords or arpeggiated stuff.

From steel string experience I'd probably start with single MXL603 out from 12th fret, but if I'm about to do exactly the wrong thing because it's a nylon string, please tell me!

Thanks
 
I'd try the 451. Try pointing it at the lower bout close to the face. I know results will vary depending on the particular instrument but I've goten decent results there when I want it to sit in a mix rather than solo.
 
I personally prefer LDCs on nylon string, especially strummy parts. I'd use the 414.
 
It depends on what the guitarist is doing with the guitar. If you have a lot of melodic stuff, with pairs of notes and harmonics, real "pointeado" type stuff, or pure lead, I'd use the NT5's, X-Y, backed off 3-5 feet. to capture the whole picture. If the person is strumming hard, as in "Rasceado" or Flamenco type stuff, I'd treat it like a steel string, and put the 414 on the 12th fret with whichever of the 2 bass cuts sounds better engaged.-Richie
 
Thanks guys, I'll give your suggestions a try - the tune is an instrumental and it's a very small "lead" bit played on nylon string purely as counterpoint to the remainder of the instrumental lead which is on steel string backed with clean electric playing the same thing, but way back in the mix, so plectrum acoustic lead basically.

Cheers
 
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