Mixcraft Studio Tip - Recording Acoustic Guitar

Showing some common techniques for recording acoustic guitar in a home studio environment, using multiple microphones, plugins and effects.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• acoustic guitar
• Mixcraft
• acoustica

[616tonic]

With respect to using compression I found seeing a comparison of the waveforms before and after mixdown invaluable. It's one thing to hear compression working on a track but to see it smoothing out the wave in the mixdown was really helpful.

I could watch these kind of videos for hours on end.

Very often, tutorials are too short and rushed whereas yours allow us a bit of time to just kick back and observe.

Thank-you Eric!

[acoustica222]

@616tonic My pleasure, thanks for the kind words :-)

[CriticsConfession]

The overall finished sound I believe isn't very good. Though I use Mixcraft for doing this, I use it a much different fashion, but of course it all starts with the guitar and mics. The guitar itself isn't the best quality, and it's very irritating and ringy...a bit too trebly/middy, and what you said about bass is true, but there's such a thing as having too little bass. And me personally, would never use microphones like those. I trust my MXL 991. No doubt about it.

[acoustica222]

@CriticsConfession It's a matter of taste and affordability. I use electric guitar strings and aluminum picks, I like the tinty steel on steel sound. Yes there's of course is such a thing as too little low end, this is just meant to get people started, tweak it how you feel is right.

[myrfyman]

man why have I waited so long to upgrade from audacity?.. I am so excited just looking at this, you do a great job explaining as well. thank you sir!

[TheRitchsin]

I use a Samson co3u USB mic but I can't get the softpre software. So everything I record there is a hissing sound in it and time after time I need to remove that with audio cleaning lab 17, but then I remove low/mid/high hissings,I don't know if that's right.. I learned everything from you,I watched every vid from you about mixcraft. You are great man! Could u help me with my problem?

[SwissArmyKnifez]

Can you get a decent sound with a acoustic guitar (with 1/4 inch input) plugged into the computer in the microphone input?

[RuiGOMEES]

Hi I really liked your videos and they are a huge help but I still have a problem with my recordings, I cant record my voice with my line in mic because I get a very annoying sound ( like a bee or something like that ) and I cant use my recorded material because of that . I really need your help . ( I'm portuguese so sorry about my bad writing )

[kyleb337]

@pedsay You have to set that in your preferences, you'll know what to do when you see it.

[guitwizzz]

Sorry, but absolutely everything he has said here about recording acoustic guitar, is absolute hogwash.......from the placement, to mic choices. Not to mention, his strings sound like electric strings, brittle harsh and thin.

[pedsay]

I'm a begginer in mixcraft, and i would like to know how you got the two tracks recording simultaneously...

I tried arming two tracks for recording, but one i armed the second one, it disarmed the first one...I feel like such an ignorant right now...:(

[seeyditti]

what version of mixcraft is this?

[jimguitarfan]

Interesting thing you did there to save time copying all the effects from one track to the next, by duplicating and deleting. Good tip !

I've been using an AT2020 USB straight into Mixcraft for my last few YT uploads, and I'm delighted with the quality of the sound, both on my Martin steel-strung and the Contreras classical. I've got to say. Absolutely brilliant product.

Cheers,

Jim