Considering recording acoustic guitar is such an everyday and commonplace requirement of music recording, I really expected more out of this segment. How about mic placement for the guitar? Should it be over the fretboard? Away from the mic? What effect does each position have? Mic types? How do they affect the sound? Etc, etc..
It would have been nice to just hear more about how to record acoustic guitars, as it's much more difficult than it initially appears...maybe not quite as difficult as miking a piano but still..
I know that the focus of the segment was on recording vocals and guitar simultaneously but that is very limited. How about doing it step by step? I for one can't play guitar and sing at the same time very well, so I record them separately.
Will we see a follow-up or is that it?
Cheers
Guido
Hi there
You're right and you're right! This Section looks at the specific issue of recording guitar and voice at the same time but recording acoustic guitar is of course an issue in itself.
The Guitar section has just been launched, and while this focuses on electric guitar, Alan does go over some approaches on acoustic as well. While it's absolutely true that recording acoustic guitar is a very widely conducted activity, and one that a lot of people have trouble with, what we try to do in this series is connect the dots on all issues surrounding recording. Hopefully, armed with that knowledge, you'll find that specific articles or videos that undoubtedly do specialize in this will now make a lot more sense because you'll have an increased awareness of everything from microphones and what they do and can do, EQ, processing, how sound behaves etc etc. Recording any instrument is not so much just "where do I stick the mic?" so much as a balancing act of factors that combine to create a wonderful recording.