Oh, so dumb of me.

[Fox Mulder]

This client came in today with this great sounding Yamaha acoustic guitar. Everything was sounding great so far, new strings and all, instrument properly tuned.

Even though I used the guitar's in built preamp to record (which was decent sounding) I forgot to mic it!

It doesn't sound that bad, but nothing beats a properly mic'ed acoustic IMO.

Even though I'm already considering a re-take for free, I was wondering - Is there any half-decent remedy to this? Impulses?

I'm sorry, my logic right now isn't getting me anywhere.

 

[ApeScaleConflict]

Worry only about the responsibility of yours to give the guy a PROPER sounding recording without lurkin in some compromises... That's not what'd i want my ae to do. Fix some crown from a tinfoil out from the last bender.

 

[Fox Mulder]

Well, messed around with it a bit. Results aren't that bad, but I guess I'll stick to re-tracking.

 

[The spark]

I had a similar problem once (except the player refused to let me mic it, thats right, refused). The advice I was given was to reamp it. It did make it better, but it still wasnt perfect. Give it a shot though.

 

[Jordon]

Forgive my ignorance....Re-amping an acoustic?

 

[The spark]

Yah, I thought the same. I gave it a shot though. I tried it through a keyboard amp, maybe a guitar amp would work better. YMMV.

I guess you could classify it as "amping" as apposed to "reamping" though.

 

[pikachu69]

No reason not to try re amping, it is a signal from a pick up, not un similar to an electric guitar which we re amp all the time. for best results use an acoustic amp, AER make AMAZING acoustic amps, or a bass amp (Fender Bassman). The pick up in a guitar is to line into an amp after all...
Still won't be as good as micing the guitar but better than the straight DI for sure.
Cheers.

 

[P-E]

It's hard to get as good. If you wanna do it the ghetto way I got some weirdly cool results with AcmeBarGig's pickup changer (I don't recall the name), setting the output to single coil.

EQ it and it should sound "realer" but nowhere near the real thing.

IMO, don't reamp it it'll waste your time. Mic it again.

 

[AudioPhile777]

I'm just curious... how did you forget to mic an acoustic guitar?

 

[barricade]

re-track.

 

[SentencedToBurn]

I'm just curious... how did you forget to mic an acoustic guitar?

exactly what i was thinking