How To Mic and Record Acoustic Guitar

http://servethesong.net This video + screencast demonstrates microphone techniques for recording Acoustic Guitar. It also includes a screencast of the recording in Pro Tools 8, with some tips for mixing acoustic guitar.

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• music
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[taba83]

what is the point of recording in stereo technique if you are going to pan it full L and R?? that doesnt make much sense...

[Dokdude]

If you do such an HardPan L/R there's no need to record in stereo. Two mono from different mics are enough, and you save space/processin/disk power.

[skateurself]

Hey man, i have a serious question and i cant seem to find any help on it..so i created a mono track.. recorded acoustic.. then i created another mono track.. recorded that acoustic.. panned it left and right.. and in my HEAD PHONES.. it sounds right.. but when i listen to it in my monitor speakers? it doesn't work? when i pan the acoustic to the RIGHT.. the right speaker doesnt play anything? yet... when they are both panned left.. the right speaker is working fine? HELPP?

[harvestsoulfly]

The whole idea of the X/Y mic technique is to create a stereo spread. It would be effective if you panned the second stereo track opposite to the first. Ex: Mic 1-L, Mic 2-R, then the second take, Mic 1-R, Mic 2-L.

[epicfail199]

your guitar reminds me of sex .... i love martins :D

[Blixish]

@taba83 Yes it does. In Pro Tools, notice how there are two panning knobs for each stereo track. The panning works as mono panning, which is the same thing as separating the stereo tracks to mono and hard-panning them.

My question is: Why do people vote erroneous information up to be the top comments?

[Blixish]

@JimijaymesGuitarist Just a simpler layout. Also, when adding effects, the effects automatically apply to both "mono tracks", which reduces processing power needed.

[JimijaymesGuitarist]

@Blixish Is there an advantage of this over mono tracks in pro tools. I have used pro tools but never on stereo sources.

[Blixish]

@JimijaymesGuitarist In Pro Tools the panning works differently. You pan the left and right channels individually, so what he does in this video is equivalent to having 4 mono tracks in Logic etc. Just FYI.

[GoodFortuneOfficial]

@worldwideMCM It's pretty much John Mayer - Daughters, lol.

[JimijaymesGuitarist]

@Dokdude Agreed plus it is pointless having two mics in stereo and hard panning them because a stereo tracks pan is the balance between left and right so the hard pan L will only be the left mic and hard right would only be the right mic whereas in mono it would be both mics for both tracks. I would of done 4 mono tracks (mic L mic R mic 2 L mic 2 R) gives you way more flexibility but does chew up CPU

[BensTunes101]

what programe do u use to record with ...?