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Online Guide Recording Acoustic Guitars
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On this page you can find frequently asked questions: "Miking up and recording a acoustic guitar".



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Why can’t I simply use the output from an electro-acoustic guitar? |
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Most piezo pickup systems do not capture the sound of the whole guitar effectively - the pickup is usually placed immediately under the bridge saddle and therefore gets most of its sound directly from string vibration. This results in a rather different sound to what you hear in the room, with harsher transients. While the onboard pre-amps found on most electro-acoustics compensate for this to some extent, and the result is fine for most live performance situations, it usually doesn’t convince in the studio. Some guitars have more than one piezo pickup, and some even have a small condenser mic placed elsewhere in the body, but even these systems generally don’t quite get there. As ever, the nature of the guitar part and the mix will determine whether this is actually important. |
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I thought I had a great sound, but it seems to change a lot throughout the track – what’s wrong? |
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The essential problem is that your mics are static and your performer is not! Musicians tend to be much less animated during sound checks then when they get really stuck into their latest magnum opus, and this can completely ruin what was a great sound when you were setting up. To solve the problem, you can either persuade your guitarist to keep still, or you can get the mic to move with him. The best method of achieving the latter solution is with one of the new breed of mic stands designed to clamp onto the body of the guitar, but you can also try using a tie-clip mic attached to the instrument, or if you don’t have access to either of these and the situation is very poor, you may be better off relying on whatever pickups or internal mics the guitar has to offer. |
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