...to the board, or analog audio microphone direct to the board? Pros and Cons? Suggestions?
I will be recording a blues medly with acoustic guitar and a single voice. By the nature of the song, the medley is better played and sung simultaneously than overdubbed, and I need not be concerned with the physical placement or presence of an additional mike.
Steve
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Repeat after me "Acoustic guitar pick-ups are a necessary evil o
Repeat after me "Acoustic guitar pick-ups are a necessary evil of the stage!" Use a mic.
Yes, pickups are evil and usually sound wretched compared to dec
Yes, pickups are evil and usually sound wretched compared to decent microphones.
After struggling with leakage for years on the old singer guitar/player problem using cardioids,I finally shifted to figure 8 patterns. By Pointing the null side of the figure 8's at what they shouldn't hear, you should be able to get sufficient isolation.
I just remembered the ultimate evil for studio acoustic guitar r
I just remembered the ultimate evil for studio acoustic guitar recording, the Ovation guitar. Stage yes, studio, never.
Why not use both, I got a very nice sound from a taylor mic'd up
Why not use both, I got a very nice sound from a taylor mic'd up stereo and a DI added to flavor just for some additional bottom...You may have to delay the DI just a touch for time alignment..
best.