Recording acoustic guitar can be challenging.
Recording acoustic guitar can be a little challenging until you find the sweet spot in your room. If your guitar has a built in pickup, you can plug it into your interface, check your recording levels and off you go. You might be a little disappointed in the sound though. The Shure SM57 microphone is the industry standard for recording a lot of acoustic instruments. A higher end microphone that has been recommended is the AT4050. I like to use the SM57 for recording my acoustic guitar tracks. I know there's a lot of other microphones and techniques for recording the acoustic guitar. If we only had the money to buy em all and try em. The trick that works for when I use the SM57 is in how you place the microphone to pick up the lush sound of the strings. I never record right over the sound hole. I always place the microphone a few inches up the neck away from the sound hole towards the tuning pegs. The microphone is pretty close to the strings and I record the signal as hot as I can get it without clipping. I usually clone the track I've recorded, separate them by panning and then add echo to one of the tracks. Here's a neat trick for using echo. If you know the tempo of the song, you simply divide 60000 by the tempo and then keep dividing that by two until the get the note value you want the echo to lag the original note. That makes the echo coincide with the tempo of the song and it sounds really cool. I then send the signal from both tracks to a buss track, add EQ (a high pass filter) to take a little of the bottom off the guitar to make room for the bass guitar and the bass drum. Click here to leave recording acoustic guitar and go to recording electric guitar.
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