| Mic Techniques - acoustic guitar [message #107848] |
Sat, 21 September 2013 01:08  |
mikeaudet
Messages: 477
Registered: February 2009
Location: Canada
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I'm betting a lot of you guys are like me - hooked on great sounds and always trying to get better ones (when time allows).
I recently had a real breakthrough with micing an acoustic guitar. I've tried a zillion different mics and placements, but never really been completely happy until now. It's actually been a fanatical mission that I've been on for about 20 years, now that I think of it...
I used the standard one foot out, one foot up, pointed down at where the neck meets the body approach, but with a twist that I hadn't read about anywhere.
I used two AKG 451e mics in an X/Y configuration, but panned them to mono instead of stereo. In stereo, it was like my ear couldn't quite grab onto the sound. In mono, the two mics summed to a fuller sound of the guitar than I had even been able to get before. It blew the doors of all of the usual tracks that I use for comparison, which was a first for me.
I hope this saves the next guy 20 years. 
I wonder if the same approach would work for any wide musical instrument. Maybe instead of putting one mic on the left and one on the right of a piano, two sets of x/y mics, each group summed to mono and then panned left and right would sound better.
Does any anyone else have any unusual, or at least less written about, mic techniques that just make a world of difference?
Cheers!
Mike
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