Today, I played around with a couple microphone combination's, in order to find a good acoustic sound for the album. All of the main electric guitars were already recorded back in the Spring, and all that needs to happen now is to put them through another amplifier to make them sound good. I've already played with some amps and found the sound I want, so later this month I'll do that. But first, I have a few weeks of free time, so I wanted to get the acoustics recorded. Part One will cover 6 string acoustics, and Part Two will cover 12 string acoustics.
First and foremost, the space I'm working with isn't conducive for recording acoustic guitars, at all. As you'll see from the pictures, there are only hard surfaces, plus my computer all directly in front of me, so achieving a good sound will be difficult. Since this is the only way I can go about recording the acoustics, we'll just have to make do and do the best with what we have.
Here we have two SM-81's in an X-Y configuration along with the guitar plugged direct-in.
Here we have one SM-27 along with the guitar plugged direct-in.
I ended up liking the one SM-27 with the direct-in sound the best and have decided to use that configuration to record all of the acoustic guitars. The SM-81's were just too good for the space and too much reflection could be heard from all of the hard surfaces.
Tomorrow, I'll be dedicating the day to recording 6 string acoustic parts. I'll do my best to snag some pictures and video footage to post of the process.
Cheers!
DUCK
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