This post falls into the "Do as I say, not as I do" realm, but I have been experimenting with this for a while now and have a few observations to add. 1) Condenser mics are essential if you hope to capture anything resembling what you hear as you play. As far as I can tell, one is pretty much as good as another, but I'm partial to Oktava. 2) Two mics are better than one. A simple XY configuration does wonders. 3) Angle the mic configuration downward at, as someone pointed out above, about a 70 degree angle (actually, I would expect that the optimal angle would differ according to how your guitarist wields their axe... anyway, point 'em down). 4) There are no hard-and-fast rules -- it depends on the sound you want. If you want a crisp, "blue" sound, mic just up the neck from the joint. If you want a browner sound, mic close to the hole. If you want a percussive sound, mic the body itself. The great thing about the guitar is that it's so many instruments rolled into one. There's no one-size-fits-all solution for mic-ing. Hope that helps. On Jan 16, 2008 3:53 AM, Christian Schumann <schumann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 11:39:16PM +0100, Leslie P. Polzer wrote: > > will a vocals microphone produce acceptable results when used to record > > an acoustic instrument? > To my ears, this strongly depends on the microphone. While I've not been > able to get decent acoustic guitar sounds from handheld dynamic vocal > microphones, my TLM103 works like a charm. > > When using cardioid microphones, you have to be careful about the > distance between guitar and microphone, or the bass will get boomy. I > usually set the mic up in about 30cm distance at an angle of 70 degrees > to the face of the guitar, pointing at the position of the neck jiont. > > Best regards > Christian > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dipl.-Phys. Christian Schumann |Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern > Mail: schumann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Fachbereich Physik > Tel.: 0631/205-4842 (Office) | http://www.physik.uni-kl.de > Tel.: 0631/205-4843 (Lab) | > Fax.: 0631/205-3902 | > Post: Erwin-Schroedinger-Strasse, D-67663 Kaiserslautern > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
