In this episode of Gear Tips, Sound Pure pro audio specialist Doug Wessling walks us through three methods used to record an acoustic guitar. The first and simplest way to record an acoustic guitar is to use a single microphone for a mono recording. This can be done...
There are multiple factors that determine what makes microphones sound different from each other, but when speaking about SDCs and LDCs, size is the most important. In this shootout, the Miktek C5 and the Miktek C7 go head to head in showing the effect differences in...
One of the easiest setups for acoustic guitar recording is the XY miking technique. Not only is it one of the quickest setups you can do to capture acoustic guitar in stereo, it also is one of the few coincident miking techniques that minimizes phase issues, as it...
In this video, Sound Pure Pro Audio specialist Marc Kuzio provides tips on using mic placement as a form of EQ for both electric and acoustic guitar. Plugin and hardware EQs are great tools to have for tone sculpting, but there’s no replacement to actually...
It’s a mistake to say any one microphone is good for every task. However, microphones can shine in places where you wouldn’t ordinarily think that they would—it sometimes just takes a little extra care to have them performing their best. We recently...