I'm having real trouble monitoring myself playing when I'm tracking.

Hey, I'm new to this forums, and hope someone can help me:)

I've been trying to record an acoustic guitar some time with Samson G Track (Now I know, not the best choice.) and this S/N ratio was really bad. I mean, there was lots of noise, and I could never get my signal go over (putting it's sensitivity high) -20db without sounding really hissy and noisy.

This is a post from my blog about recording the acoustic guitar. I hope people may find it useful and it would be wonderful if you feel you have anything to add! Enjoy.

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Good day to you all!

Hello everyone. First post here and looks like a great community. I am looking for ideas on how to record a solo acoustic guitar and vocal at the same time. I guess my main concern is microphone bleed between the two mics being used. My only condenser mics at the moment are the MXL 990/991 matched set.

First i wanna say i know very little bout recording so be gentle with me...
I recorded guitar with one condenser mic and i was rely happy with it but now i wanna record with 2 mics.

Just bought a pair of M150's and recorded my old D35. These mics are stunning, quite superior to all I have heard before. Looking forward to doing my next piano CD with them, but in the meantime, here is a sample.
http://www.lodestarrecordings.comau/YouTurnMeOnImARadio.mp3

Folks,

Please can someone help me in the selection of an affordable (200- 300 $)
mic for recording acoustic guitar at home.

I am looking at

AT4041 (SDC)
RODE NT5 (SDC)
Shure SM81 (SDC)

I am also looking at some stereo SDC mics or any other affordable stereo mics. Would stereo makes help in the first place?

The is a 4 year old fender acoustic..

i have a seymour duncan woody, as well as a handful of condensers, sm57's+8's, and i can't get a sound i really am happy with with these obviously, the only one i am breifly happy with at the moment in the Behringer b1. i am a very low budget engineer as i am a full time student. what mic would you recommend for under £150 ?

Hey, I'm trying to record some acoustic guitar but have some problems. I'm using a guitar with a built in microphone that is hooked up to an external soundcard Edirol UA-25. I'm recording in Cubase SX3. The problem that it seems no matter what I do the recording comes out with extremely low gain, the track show almost only a thin line unless I play really strongly.

I find that my vocal range tends to work better when I tune my guitar down one full step from standard and start writing songs from here.

Obvioulsy, I'm worried about tuning issues and lack of string tension when I go to record.

Is there a possible way of making a guitar tuned down a full step have the same tension as strings tuned to standard pitch?