How To Record Acoustic Guitars In Under 15 Minutes 🎸

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Howdy doody, buckaroonies! Today we're here to talk about getting pro quality acoustic guitar recordings at home! We'll cover different microphone types, mic techniques, and a few great free plugins for mixing your acoustic guitar recordings!

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0:00 Howdy
0:22 What We're Covering Today
1:01 Before You Get Started
2:28 Types Of Microphones
2:47 Condenser Mics & Example
3:38 Ribbon Mics & Example
4:13 Dynamic Mics & Example
5:04 The Big Red Button
5:34 Mic Techniques
5:43 Mono Mic Setup & Example
6:11 XY Mic Setup & Example
6:59 Over The Shoulder Setup & Example
7:50 Mid/Side Setup & Example
9:15 Room Mic Setup & Example
10:11 Post Processing
10:17 Adding Warmth To Condenser Mics
10:50 Taming Dynamic Recordings
11:26 Fixing Finger Squeaks
12:14 Double Tracking Guitars
12:41 Adding Space With Convolution
13:15 Closing Thoughts

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Acoustic guitar recording is an oft-covered topic on YouTube, but this one is the clearest and most varied of them all.

noyd

That reverb's giving me goosbumps. Thanks for all those tips man!

Jeremy_Moll

I really love your studio man. And thanks for the tips. This explains why my past acoustic recordings sounded so honky -- because I recorded incorrectly.

BrandonBurch

Oh - my - GOD! YOUR CHANNEL IS AMAZING!

This is some TOP TIER content bro! Keep up the outstanding work!

igoroliveira

Great video! My favourite mic position isn’t in this list - two mics at the same distance: one pointing where the body meets the neck and one point to the bridge. Hard pan them and you have a great full record.

As a tip: ensure that your guitar is well set up.

rafaelbaffini

Very optimistic of you to assume my strings are only 5 months old 😂

ThePoodlenoodler

Good instructions for solid acoustic guitars. Some added thoughts, based on 20 years of recording
experience:

1. I'd place greater emphasis on placement; it's even more important than mic selection. Basic rule: The
WRONG mic in the RIGHT place will sound better than the "right" mic in the WRONG place. Stuck with
cheap-o dynamics? Experiment! (The Shure SM57 is inexpensive, but there are a lot of good reasons
why it's an absolute staple in every professional studio, most of which own several.)

2. When choosing a Mid-Side approach, I always select a ribbon mic for the sides mic. Since ribbons are
native figure-8, they hold pattern through the frequency spectrum, unlike large-diaphram condensers that
tend to go cardioid above about 1 kHz and omni below 150 Hz, skewing the image slightly, but audibly
from high to low. Distant placement helps dispel this problem, but it depends on having a kick-ass acoustic
space to record in.

Mid-Side creates an artificial stereo image which can be adjusted in mix by changing the panning of the
sides channel - assuming the mid tracks have been sub-bussed to a stereo aux track. It's a great approach
for room mic'ing, since hard-panning the sides pair and mixing the mid channel down slightly can make your
space sound HUGE, even if it's a bit modest. Adjusting the relative balance of the mid tracks can swing the
image to the right or left while preserving the width and air.

3. Ribbons can be expensive, and the cheap ones aren't worth having (Oktava, I'm looking your direction).
The high end of a ribbon rolls off very smoothly above about 7 kHz, depending on which one you have,
which can be compensated with a gentle shelving EQ band, boosting about 1-2 dB. High end recovered!.
Also enjoy the smooth mid-range of the ribbon, without the odd emphases of condensers, especially
large-D condensers whose diaphram resonances need to be hunted down and notched out.

4. Alternate ending: "How many guitar players does it take to screw in a light bulb? Sixteen: one to get up
and do it, and fifteen to stand around the edge of the stage going "Shit, I can do that!".

steveditore

Best video on the basics of recording acoustic guitar I've seen, and I've seen a lot. Thank you!

sgriffin

Excellent tips Cameron 👍
My X-Y preference is to mount them over and under, that leaves the diaphragms unimpeded by the bodies of the other mics.
Also enables the diaphragm centres to be aligned, one less phase issue to deal with. 🤓

KozmykJ

Man, the idea with the de-esser is so good. Helps us a lot with our acoustic guitar sound. Thanks for that!

basilkatz

3 years late but I found exactly what I searched for :) the "over to shoulder - Setup" was a game-changer, as well as the Mic placing. Thank u very much !

bryankpp

1:19 bold of you to assume my guitar strings are that young

zoedoesmusic

20sec in: holy sheet! Your voice sounds amazing<3

RamonSmithMusic

What about the room ?, large room is it better way to record ?

AchrefRoubhi

daaamn, this is just what i needed, kept trying to go and download/test stuff, and kept having to rewind cos i go away fro a second and i miss some realy valuable info, thanks so much!

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