Thought's on how this acoustic sounds?

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Personally, I like it. Sounds OK to me. These sort of things are so subjective and personal.
 
thanks grimtraveller! yes understand it's very subjective thanks for the input tho! :)
 
Just personal preference/opinion. I'm hearing a little too much room. I would prefer to get the mics a little closer to the instrument to reduce room sound. I'm hearing a good amount of the low strings, and a good amount of the high strings, but I'm not hearing much of the middle strings during all of those strums.
 
Yep Ditto on the room. I tend to get lot more source in my recordings and I hear a lot more source in other people's recordings, ie they have the mic closer to the guitar - but I guess that's a personal taste thing.

Having just recorded some acoustic on the weekend, I'm a bit pissed off that your recording, even with the echo, sounds to me like a tasty one. Why doesn't mine sound as good as that!
What room were you in? Bathroom? A treated one?

As for the POD, I have a POD X3 but there's no way I'd record acoustic through it - I go straight from the condenser mic into my audio interface and definitely get better results. If you're using your POD as *the* interface or for the phantom power, well you have no choice but otherwise......

Hope this helps.
Cheers,
FM
 
pure.fusion said:
Yep Ditto on the room. I tend to get lot more source in my recordings and I hear a lot more source in other people's recordings, ie they have the mic closer to the guitar - but I guess that's a personal taste thing.

Having just recorded some acoustic on the weekend, I'm a bit pissed off that your recording, even with the echo, sounds to me like a tasty one. Why doesn't mine sound as good as that!
What room were you in? Bathroom? A treated one?

As for the POD, I have a POD X3 but there's no way I'd record acoustic through it - I go straight from the condenser mic into my audio interface and definitely get better results. If you're using your POD as *the* interface or for the phantom power, well you have no choice but otherwise......

Hope this helps.
Cheers,
FM
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It's just a Vintage VS300 acoustic, nothing speacial. Behringer C1 mic about a foot away into UX-1 toneport using Vintage UK preamp with a small amount of gain eq flat. I added some early reflections on preamp (probably added to room sound) recorded in my studio room which is large bedroom with carpeted floors. Really nothing special equipment or setup wise.

Muzza
 
Agreed that the mids are sorta missing. Depends on what you're going to use this for and what sound you're shooting for.

But, in general with one LDC I'd try placing the mic 8"-12" away straight out from the 12th fret and angled in toward the sound hole. And as a 2nd approach I'd place it 8-12" away and slightly below the sound hole and a few inches toward the butt of the guitar.

You're on the right track, I'd just mess with mic placement and not get too far away to begin with. Oh, and EQing a little out of the 800hz zone usually does a lot to make the guitar sound less boxy (in my experience at least), and open up the "warm" sounding mids.
 
Sorry Muzza, perhaps it's just me or what I'm listening on, but I'm hearing a world of something that I don't like in there... No problems with the overall tone but I'm hearing some sort of filtering effect or something I can't quite describe - more evident in the moments when you're not strumming and holding a chord, which isn't very often.

Almost like there's a crappy vibrato effect run at a low level across the whole thing... perhaps it's just that I'm listening on a PC at work through little headphones...

What tuning are you using? Sounds open, and low... perhaps it's those low strings interacting with each other and wavering in pitch than I'm hearing... what guage strings - if you lower tuning and don't up the gauge to compensate it can sound a bit sloppy... just reaching for possibilities here, you understand! :)

And if you decided you want more mids in it, with a low slung tuning that I'm assuming you're using, don't be afraid to get the mic further up the fretboard, depending upon the guitar... I often go up around the 7th fret. Furthermore, for a strummed piece I would not, despite the other poster's recommendations, have the mic up close to the guitar... get it back - 15 inches at least...

Feel free to reject all this if no-one else agrees with me, but I'd be interested to hear what a few more people think as I'm wondering if I need to get my ears checked! Nice piece though Muzza... ;)

Also, your signal chain seems too complex to me. Guitar / mic / preamp / recorder - seems like you have an extra element there, but I'm not familiar with any of the things you're using, alas, so perhaps I'm wrong. :confused:
 
I'm going to have to agree with armistice with the some sort of filtering effect going on.
What was right behind you when you recorded this or behind the microphone? Was there a flat surface like the wall or headboard of the bed?
Could be the early reflection that you added plus some other phenomenon.
And I don't here that strange effect when you hit the guitar (by accident?) at 0:27. It's got to be something.

Other than that great sound out of that VS300.
 
that sounds good man the low end it really tight it lacks abit on the high end but thats what you get on a C1 if thats the effect you were going for though its sounds really full and with a a little mixing and some more subtle reverb it would sounds really good man
 
Was this recorded in a bathroom with two mics ? I dont think I ever heard such a muddy acoustic guitar.
 
Sounds like a hundred-dollar mic through a hundred-dollar preamp.
 
Your guitar.....

It's got no mids....



A word of advice on the line 6 stuff....


Never just use an out of the box preset..... When i started listening before i read i knew you had some kind of effect on it. Line 6 was close enough.


You should always try and tweak the line 6 presets a little bit. Make it your own you know? You should be able to save a few user presets of your own. I do this. but i take the factory stuff and fuck with it till it's raw. I'm happy with it on the whole. But definitely try it.

Not sure how new to it you are but one exercise i did back in the day was to find a guitar sound i really liked and compared it to my own recorded sound, (huge difference) then keep playing with my own until it matched what i was listening to. (or as close as i possibly could)

This will teach you so many other things as well...


But... Not bad.


Keep trying there is potential there.
 
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