Recording Acoustic Guitar (My Foolproof Method) - TheRecordingRevolution.com
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- Опубліковано 17 лип 2024
- Here's a simple and foolproof method to record great acoustic guitar tracks in your home or project studio. It's how I record them every single time.
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And here are The 4 Rules Of Acoustic Recording: www.recordingrevolution.com/the-4-rules-of-acoustic-guitar-recording/
Would I need to keep the mic closer using a Shure sm7b since it’s not a condensor? Thanks for the great instructions.
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If you switch back and forth between the playing you can really hear the difference. Great advice here, i really like the way it sounds
you da real MVP
Thanks for putting the time stamps in your post. Very helpful.
thanks so much
thank you, this comment should get marked :D
this helped so much! 😃
I prefer to place my microphone at least 24 foot away and around the corner from the house as my guitar playing is so bad...
Wonderful! 😂
Good joke😂
That's awesome. I am literally laughing out loud as I write this.
you had me in the first half not gonna lie lol
combrogos funny man. I lol. Thanks
Song: Facing sound hole, by 6 Inches Away
Suzuka underrated comment
LOOOL
"what a lot of people do wrong is..." *proceeds to do exactly what i was doing*
Me too🤣🤣
Literally same
Great tips as always Graham
i am from Nepal and i recently bought rode nt2a.
It is a great microphone i love it
i want to learn music production can you help me please ?
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learn the basic first, usually take 1-3 months,try to learn it by yourself, just watch a lot of youtube tutorial and keep experimenting
I was shocked to learn that he was using what I had considered to be an albeit very good but low-end microphone :-) Yay for Rode :-)
What about Electric guitar? The set up is probably much different
@@focusedonmusic8612 Of course! You are plugged in for a start and, if you are using a mic at all, it is in front of the amp. What a strange question.
I've been recording for 25 years and I still watch acoustic mic placement videos haha. It's such a dynamic instrument and can be used for so many elements that you can choose different placements each time. I like that you acknowledge that there's no "one" way to do it but this might work for you. Always good stuff Graham!
Great video Graham, very helpful!
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i follow all of your video for like 3 years now. thanks for all the stuff that u share, your free e book was the first big lesson that i learn and i do until to day in my studio in Indonesia
I only have one mic for recording and this shared exactly what I was looking for regarding single mic set ups. Very helpful!
I cant stop watching these videos! I love it!
Thanks for all your help Graham! I really appreciate your insight on music and life and how your so willing to help others stuck in places where you've probably have been stuck in yourself.
I can honestly say you've made me see my own approaches to those two aspects in a whole different and better way.
THANKYOU!
I've been trying out multiple methods and keep coming back to this one.
My friend and I recorded classical acoustic using 2 mics in stereo. BOY! what a difference that made! We love the results.
I'm a massive fan of the Rode NT2A. Acoustic guitar can sound really beautiful with one
Wow...great insight! I will be trying that out, and checking your other videos. Thanks for putting this out there! Lots to learn, ready to listen!
This man is very talented and the only consistent and direct to the point teacher ive ever seen in youtube. A million thanks to you sir!
Thanks Graham! I asked for this a couple of weeks ago and here it is! Awesome!
Always helpful Graham...I enjoy and learn from every video you post.
I love this. just used this to record my latest cover and it sounds AMAZING!. thank you for sharing
Thanks Graham, very simple and straightforward and totally makes sense with that mic positioning.
+Curtis Judd i know you bro, i didn't expect to see you here
+Nick Kapenkar I don't actually record a lot of music but Graham's often got good info for audio in general. Good to see you here!
A technique i find interesting is to aim one microphone at the sound hole and one at the neck, then you can blend both sounds and play with the stereo field all you want.
I'm here in 2020..Graham this video helped me so much! I'm doing acoustic guitar record on a rock record and your methods help me alot.
We have a full studio setup, and even in this setup it's a great help..
I'm subscribing right now!
Hey Graham, just wanted to say thanks for these videos. You've been a huge help with my journey into audio engineering, and I really appreciate it. Keep it up man. God bless.
meanwhile The Boxer from Simon and Garfunkel used 7 mics for the main guitar.
"On my guitar, they had me miked with about seven mics. They had a near mic, a distant mic, a neck mic, a mic on the hole. They even miked my breathing. They miked the guitar in back. And they had an ambient mic overhead."
What I do is probably really strange, but I put a mic close to the sound hole panned hard right and another at about the 12th fret panned hard left. It gives a lot of fretty noises to the left ear and the strummy sounds to the right ear. I think it sounds super cool
Hey thanks man! I used this method to record the four acoustic tracks on my album and they came out sounding beautiful. When I record for genres like soft rock, singer-songwriter/easy listening, or even pop, I typically grab a stereo bar, a pair of small diaphragm condensers, and a mic stand (obviously) and have the first condenser pointed at the part of the soundhole closest to the neck, about 1 foot away, and the other condenser would be pointed at the 12th fret. It's a pretty stress-free method that I recently took up, but I must admit that I've gotten hooked on your method! Thanks again!
Recorded with this method today. Man it was amazing. I used my Gibson which has a big sound and then the Taylor is super bright, and both sounded really nice! Thank you so much for making this so easy to understand. First time seeing your video, but I'm posting it on my Blog about my journey, and hopefully others will come here and use this technique. Sounds amazing! Thanks again!
To compare:
1:37 - sound hole
2:39 - 12th fret
4:25 - "both"
I would really like to compare them easily. If there were an annotation on each example, leading to the next or first one, that would be great.
Or if there were simple time codes in the description.
In any case, here are some for anyone's convenience. (including mine. lol)
+Elliot Miller oh dang. Using the time codes, I heard how much of a massive difference it makes!
+Elliot Miller haha thanks! :D
Good Job Well Done!!!! Did you do this 1st or the other guy!!! lol
Yeah that works well doing it that way. I can really hear the difference. Thanks
My favorite, for a 'warm' acoustic guitar sound:
Ribbon mic, level with and a foot straight out from players left shoulder (assuming right handed), pointed between 12th fret and sound hole. This also aligns the edge null of the ribbon mic with the player's face, so breath noise won't be captured...also enabling playing and singing at the same time with good (enough) isolation.
Another favorite for a woody but clear sound:
Omnidirectional mic (Large diaphragm preferable, but small works fine), 8 inches out from just below the bridge. This captures the body of the guitar (only sounds as good as the instrument), and still gets some good pick-on-strings attack. It works best if you have a dead or good sounding room.
Cheers!
Thanks for sharing what you know. You're a great teacher and I constantly find myself consulting your channel when I hit a wall or have questions,
Been recording for nearly 15 years, and your video gave me a total "Aha!" moment. Excellent advice. Thank you!
I've had really good results using two mics. I put one angled toward the 12th fret and one down by the bridge. I use one bright mic and one that's a little darker. I make sure they're the same distance away from the guitar so there are no phase issues. Then after I've recorded my part I pan one hard right and one hard left. It really creates a huge sound that's still bright enough to sit in a mix.
Condenser or dynamic mics?
Nice video Graham, but do these principles only apply to a dreadnought guitar? I have two guitars, an Ovation 1868 which is a shallow body, which obviously sounds thin acoustically (It's made for plugging in onstage!) and a Sigma travel guitar, which is beautiful but again, obviously sounds a bit thin as , well, it's a small bodied travel guitar.....any tips for making them sound "big and full/warm" ?
Thanks if you read this :)
Sounds great Graham!The fun thing looking at all the excellent comments is, we can see there are endless ways to create tones and textures, yours is simply one that works well, is easy and is um... Foolproof!
Nice Method! the placement is able to capture the sound so well! Thank for the tutorial!
The first one is exactly how Coldplay records acoustics, that and a ton of Nashville engineers will place a mic right on front of the sound hole for a more bluegrass tone. There's always another mic, but they do point them at the sound hole a lot of times.
I was just about to say, from the first strum I heard Yellow there.
GaragebandandBeyond I think they did that back in their earlier days. Any rhythmic guitars in their music now are very thin and lightweight
Can you tell me where did you find out about Coldplay's recording technique? Any sources which you might share?
If there's always another mic, then pointing to the sound hole is OK, as it's just part of the sound. It's like a scooped tone, while pointing to the 12th fret yields a complimentary midrange tone.
@@Texturas75 Exactly. Using a single mic like he is needs to take in all the frequencies to backing it away makes sense. . But having multiple mics pointed at multiple parts of the guitar gets all those frequencies recorded, so you can then adjust levels to taste when blending them.
recordingrevolution playing that "insurance company jingle" "department store christmas commercial" chord progression xD thx for the video man
This was perfect! I was just going to start recording acoustic with my NT1.... it's like you read my mind man! Much thanks, and keep up the fantastic work! :D
I just came across your vids, I'm already 3 or 4 in and have learned some extremely useful stuff. Thank you sir, keep it up, and have a nice day.
Nice job, man. Now, I am intending to record voice and guitar, at the same time. For this, I have I condenser microphone (AT2020) and the guitar are both plugged straightly into a Scarlett 2i2 (XLR, and P10 cable). But, the guitar's sound is just like strange, totally different from what we can hear from it. How do I fix it?
Would have been good to have a/b'd the 3 videos at the end of the video to hear the sound difference
thank you so much Graham, I 'll be using and applying this big tips
Thanks for all these Vids Graham.I'm just starting out outing together a studio and recording and these tutorials have been a tremendous resource.
I use the same method as well! Exactly the same, moving the condenser mic back and turning it a bit to face the neck :)
One question though: sometimes I have a lot of problem with the noise of the pick, especially when I'm not strumming but picking the strings one by one. The above method helps with that, too, but often it's a big headache for me. Thanks for any suggestions in advance!
Same problem here actually:/
+Laszlo Harsanyi I'd say try a different pick. Maybe one made of slicker plastic, or metal, or even one of those made of felt. Or a thinner pick of the same material you're using. Also, check how strongly you are picking the strings, and in what place. Maybe you're hitting them too hard, or too close/far away from the neck. Move your position around a little bit.
+Laszlo Harsanyi Try finding those offending "pick" frequencies between 1kHz and 3kHz and cutting them. You'll have to experiment though, as always.
Thanks for the tips guys, I will definitely try them out! I never thought about the type of the pick that is for sure, maybe that's the problem! By playing around with the mic I can get rid of the pick noise most of the time, but still it would be good to know the exact source of the problem! Tried playing around with EQ, too, but I think the problem is rooted in the recording technique itself, which you cannot repair with EQ, at least not fully.
@@LaszloHarsanyi_SoundTube Super late, but multiband compressor does the trick. Find the annoying frequency and compress just that so you don't eq the stuff in vain. Same process goes for palm muted heavy guitars (compress the palm muted low mid/bass away when it happens, don't eq away all nice bottom from open chords) and million other things. Just compress the annoying stuff when it occurs, don't cut it away with eq. You can do this in a guitar buss also, not just for the independent tracks. Multiband compression is a tool that gives you opportunity to give other stuff some space with parallel compression too. For example, when bass drum hits, you can snap out some low end and kick attack frequencies out of bass track so you don't end up over emphasizing the low and attack frequency levels with every kick hit. Or you can make some room for snare by snipping some frequencies off the guitar buss and not peaking the mids. Everything builds on top of everything. You need to create a space for every sound you want to be heard. Multiband compressor is a powerful tool for that.
Anyone else see the strings changing colors from red to green?
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Aliasing is the cause, simple
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Great stuff....direct and simple....excellent !!!! Thank you !!!
this was awesome. I can't wait to try it out. thank you
I'm recording acoustic guitar on Wednesday for the first time, the video is just in time
What is the model name of this guitar?
Thank you. Your videos are really helpful. I'm planning to watch all of them :D
Always good stuff! I've been out of recording and mixing for a few months but I'm ready to jump back in. Thanks for this Graham!
But I think that the guitar also play a huge part when it come to recoding
Correct. And the player. Good guitar + shitty musician = terrible recording.
it's alright doing this in a well treated room!!!!!!!
Good work, quality straightforward information. Thank you my man.
The video is great and everything is explained very clearly. Thank you !
in my case 1.5 feet is the best im using BM-800 with no phantom power
Hey I use the same one and my acoustic always sounds super super weird. Some of the noise from the string just cuts off and just sounds super bad. Any tips?
the problem is to have a good acoustic of the room because more you take away the microphone and more you will hear this acoustic ... So the most important is to have a good acoustic which is impossible to have in a non-treated room
Hi Graham,
Thank you for such a straight forward and informative tutorial. I’m just starting to look into recording my acoustic guitar and found your video massively helpful! Subscribed!
Well played. very simple great results. Thanks mate
tell me im high but his strings have a rainbow effect going on
i thought he was using color strings
Just the lightening
@@aarondoodles3380 you’re right it’s definitely lightning.
@@ruthlesscutthroat4030 *Lighting
Great tip! I'm excited to implement this on my next recording. Thanks, Graham
This is very helpful for me being that I'm new to recording in protools and playing acoustic guitar
. Thanks so much
Excellent Video. Thank you, Graham!
Great tutorial, I can now improve my recordings due to these clear & well-explained tips. Thank you
Helpful and simple as usual!!! Thanks Graham!
I totally did the second example you had on here. Although, in many of my songs, the acoustic is the main texture and I didn't realize how much tone I was losing. Thanks so much
Very helpful tips. Thank you, Graham, for sharing your experience!
Really appreciate the video! Starting to record myself to start on my first EP!
Very helpful thanks. I watched it just before I do some recording with my Taylor acoustic.
Best video I have ever seen on recording acoustic guitars
excellent tips ..Thnx for the time out for a beginner person like me..You r my fav.
Thank you! This is great - looking forward to trying this technique
Thank you for this. I'm just about to start recording my first record and was looking for the best way to record my acoustic guitar and this is the winner for mice placement. Very helpful!
This is one very, very helpful video - many thanks.
Great advice! Easy to understand and quite effective.
Just whoah... very impressive! Thanks for sharing this tip
i found the M/S technique this week and i love it for solo acoustic guitar tracks. you position the first mic with a cardoid pickup pattern at the 12th fret and point it towards the sound hole and once you have found a sound you like you put a second mic with a 8 pickup pattern on the top pointing to the sides. then you take the second mic duplicate it in a daw pan them to each side and flip the faze of one of the second mics and add in the first mic till you like the sound. i also grouped them into a stack and added eq to the stack instead of eq to each of the tree tracks
I'm doing research for a college assignment on recording acoustic guitar and this has helped so much! Thank you! :)
Recently I recorded an acoustic track using two condenser mics (Rode NT2000) in an A-B configuration with one facing the sound hole and another facing the 10th/12th fret, both about a foot back. I produces such a wide, full yet bright tone when I panned he the tracks hard to opposite sides! The best tone I've achieved!
Awesome. I'm going to be recording acoustic in a couple of weeks, and this helps me alot! Thanks Graeme!
Wow this is AWESOME. Thank you so much for this very awesome and useful info.
awesome bro...because ur tutorial..i got chance to work in studio...thnks for ur tips and all basic stuffs
wow, the first two recordings i thought "those sound fine, one is heavy one is light, just choose whichever" then the final recording came along and i was mind blown! Thank you!
very useful. Was struggling to figure out the right way to record my acoustic. Thank you! :)
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.
This video definitely helped. I can hear the difference with the ear phones I'm using. I've been searching for great new ways to improve my sound. I've been using my PC webcam - and gone are those days. When I come back out of hiding, I want to sound drastically different. Your videos have been helping! -SV
Nice.... was fighting this today... Love your tip. Thanks.
You always give us best tips man. I really appreciate it. Thank you
Wow!! This is an awesome video man...thanks a lot
thanks Graham. I'm learning a lot from your videos. the answer to my prayers. a musician who's learning about recording and about to set up my first home studio. subscribed.
I've been using the "12th fret" method for years - thanks for your idea, which I'll be trying out at the first opportunity. Much appreciated!
Thanks for another great lesson Graham. You are the man!
Thanks man!!! It really worked out i was having some difficulties recording acoustic guitars because it was or to much beefy or to thin but with this method i really get the sound i want thanks again !!
As always a great help. Simple but very effective. Thanks from Germany
Thanks Graham, I've Breen playing for a long time but am very knew to navigating the logisticsof recording and mixing etc. Your videos are great, i haven't watched iber without learning something. Love y'work.
Great tutorial man.
You definitely know your stuff!
Thanks so much for helping us home recording artists out Graham! I am so grateful for this content. Really helpful. Going to try this method out this afternoon! :)
Thank you so much! This really helped me. I happen to have a Rode NT1-A in the studio, so bonus points! Keep on rockin'!
Great tip. Thank you so much. I have an NT1A (excellent mic) and was just about to record an acoustic part for the first time in a while.
Awesome Gram... I am really struggling with it... Now Let me try This... Thanks a Ton