Short little acoustic guitar clip (Yamaha LS6, SM81)

[ParsonsMatt]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1161830/acoustic guitar song.mp3

Please excuse the sloppy lead playing... Was improvised in a few takes. At some point I'll actually write a melody instead of making one up and extend it with vocals and other instrumentation.

Thoughts?

Guitar is a Yamaha LS6 with Elixir 13-56 Phosphor Bronze nanowebs. Mic is a Shure SM81 pointed at the soundhole, about 6" off. Some light reverb, compression, EQ for the guitar effects and some tape simulation to glue it all together.

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[Morgan C]

Sounds really scooped and distant, altho the leads are much better. I've got decent results with a PG81 so you should be fine, maybe you just overprocessed it.

 

[ahjteam]

the sound is a bit boomy and scooped

 

[Wisheraser]

^ Agreed. Not bad, but reducing that boominess would really help. Keep moving that mic around until you find a spot that has a more pleasing frequency balance.

 

[ParsonsMatt]

Thanks! I'll mess with placement some more. Any tips for dual micing?

For EQ, all I did was bump the highs with a shelf and hipass at around 100Hz. Interesting to hear that its boomy... I need a sub :\

 

[Felix Neumann]

Very nice melody, like it Agree about the boominess, but this shouldn´t be a problem eq wise.

 

[ahjteam]

Interesting to hear that its boomy... I need a sub

More like the 100-300hz region boominess. and if you can't use a sub atm, get a pair of headphones that have a lot of low end, like Sennheiser HD25's. and oh yeah, atleast it bothers me; in the beginning where the acoustic guitar is hard panned to the right (not 100%, but almost)

Thanks! I'll mess with placement some more. Any tips for dual micing?

put the mic on input monitoring and feed it to headphones, then ask someone to move the microphone(s) around and when it sounds good, put it there on a stand

 

[Mago]

as said, theres some boom going on, but that should be able to be fixed with eq or different mik positioning ( I like Acoustic guitars more at about 24th fret)

the song is really nice!