Recording the singing guitarist. Any successful results?

[dmc777]

This has proven to me over and over again to be hard as hell to do without phase interference. Anyone have any mic placement techniques with 2 mics that have recieved good results? All I have is cardoid mics and 2 inputs. A 57, Adk hamburg, Mxl990, and mxl993. Thanks for the help guys.

 

[Track Rat]

The best luck I've had is to use a single mic all to one track. But if you have two mics that'll both do figure 8, you can position them so their null point is pointed at what you DON'T want for some isolation. I still like a sinle mic.

 

[cello_pudding]

hmm...maybe try to do a false stereo micing technique where you don't close mic either of them, but try to point the most fitting mic towards each instrument. not perfectly towards.

so like...vertical false stereo with the 990 pointed up and the 993 down. sorta out in front of the 12th fret of the guitar but not too close to the guitar, and possibly slightly up to capture the voice a bit better.

you should be able to get a stereo image out of that for the acoustic and hopefully will catch the voice well.

 

[AGCurry]

I'm with track rat - my AEA R44 does a great job all by itself.

If you want stereo, a single X/Y or Blumlein pair is the ticket - but tell the talent not to move!

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

I'm with cello on this one and go for the vertical coincident stereo.

You might even take it a step further and try a horizontal version of a Jecklin disc, though I have not tried that.

Additional options that are quite workable - though a bit guerella and not sonically ideal (and also don't match the equipment you have at hand) - dual lavaliers or a pickup on the git and a lav on the throat.

G.

 

[Track Rat]

You might even take it a step further and try a horizontal version of a Jecklin disc, though I have not tried that.
G.

That's interesting. I've got a disc setup but I've never considered orienting the baffle horizontally for something like this.

 

[dmc777]

Thanks guys I'll try these.