Coyote Circle Studio - Recording An Acoustic Guitar - Dual Mono/ Stereo

Here I show one of my favorite techniques for recording acoustic guitar. I'm using an MXL 991 condenser and a Blue Ball dynamic. They are running into a Focusrite Saffire Pro 26 I/O (great unit!) into my computer. I panned the mics 55% left and right, or about nine o'clock and three o'clock on a rotary knob. There's no compression, eq, reverb or other manipulation on the audio.

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• saffire
• mxl
• blue
• ball

[latenitehowl]

Very Inspiring to see great things done with budget friendly gear. I have been looking through countless videos and reviews to find the right gear to record an acoustic/folk album, I love akron/family's sound and was looking around to find where they recorded with no avail. I find this vid and check out your website and see that they recorded there with you. #WIN.

[CoyoteCircleStudios]

@latenitehowl thanks for checking out the vid, and the site. One thing I need to point out, though, is that our work with Akron/Family band is listed under live mixing section. We have not had them here at the studio (although they would obviously be welcome at any time!), we worked with them at the High Sierra Music Festival. We want to be very careful not to take credit for other people's hard work and great efforts.

[vet0093]

lets cut his hair

[CoyoteCircleStudios]

@vet0093 ...excuse me? Is this an attempt at something constructive or something humorous? Because you fail pretty badly at either one. If you have nothing to offer to the conversation, go back to jumping on your bed with your drunk buddies and leave the comments to the grown ups.

[burnsdemon]

could you do this with an mxl 990 instead of the blue ball or could you use an sm57 instaed of the blue ball

[CoyoteCircleStudios]

@burnsdemon - absolutely. Just guessing I would imagine the 990 would sound a little more airy on the low end, and the 57 would sound a bit more dry. The 990 and the 57 are both cardioid pickup pattern like the Blue, but they do have different frequency curves. The Blue has a rolloff around 100hz, a hump between 100-200hz, a dip between 300-400 hz, and another hump around 6-7k, very flattering to guitar tones. The 990 is almost dead flat up to around 5k. The 57 has a rolloff around 200hz.

[latenitehowl]

@CoyoteCircleStudios Thanks for clearing that up! In any case I am gonna use our tips with my own setup. An Sm7b and a AKG C1000. Thanks Again!

[thund3rbox]

Awesome video! Thanks for the knowledge. Right video at the right time, as I'm trying to record some acoustic tracks at home currently. I have the 990/991 package, but I've also have an AKG C1000S. Have you/do you use that mic for acoustic ever, by chance? Curious as to your opinion on that one.

[0bservathor]

I want to buy CD with your music. Amazing song! Is that yours?

[dmien746]

went toa recordinging studio recently recorded a few song tell as what you think of the way its recorded i recorded it in cloud 9 recording studios belfast

[VitorVitoriaBaia]

the amazing Focusrite Pre-Amps :) Love it!

[charlie0chandon]

That is quite frankly the clearest, friendliest and unpretentious explanation for acoustic recording I have found on the internet... Thank you!! Looking forward to checking out your other vids. One question, (sorry if I'm being thick) would you always record into your daw on two separate tracks in mono and then mix down (panned as you explain ) or is there a situation when you record on one track in stereo? Thanks