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ProfessorGAC

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2. I'm Getting Close To Recording...
Tue Nov 21, 2023, 09:05 PM
Nov 2023

...4 acoustic solo pieces. I've set up the 2 mikes and gotten all my cabling.
2 of them definitely are 6 string pieces. One was developed as a 12 string piece, but it's open tuned. Probably need the Martin, but that has no electronics. The 4th, I'm not sure yet. I think it would be cool on 12 strings, but the picking pattern might be difficult given the limited space between pairs. (On Edit: I just messed with it on the new guitar. Not as hard as I feared. It will be a 12 string piece.(
I'm going to close mic with a AKG 416, a Shure pencil condenser mic at 4 to 5 feet (the low E has around a 9 foot wave & I'll do tests to minimize phasing), & I'm plugging the guitar in direct. So, recording to 3 channels.
Right now, I'm thinking a bit of reverb on the mic channels & a chorus reverb on the direct, with that being lower in the mix.
I've never done detailed miking of acoustic before, so it should be interesting.

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