How to Record a Jazz (Archtop) Guitar - Demo Video
This is a tutorial on how to mic a jazz archtop guitar and amplifier to get the best possible sound. Learn professional microphone placement techniques from pro audio engineers. While the traditional technique involves simply placing a single microphone a guitar cabinet, our engineers, elaborate on the technique in the recording studio to produce a much more pleasing sound, more like what you would hear from a jazz guitar if you were listening to it acoustically in Using a Royer 122v (the tube version of their classic Royer 121 mic) and a Sennheiser e609 dynamic microphone on a Jazz Amp 112ER, and a Schoeps CMC6 with supercardioid MK41 (CMC641) capsule to mic the guitar. We demonstrate different mixing and panning choices to get different sounds from several different mixes of this excellent 3 mic setup on some fabulous sounding archtop guitars from Eastman, including their John Pisano model, as well as an incredibly Bill Comins acoustic archtop jazz guitar.
- Signal Chain
- Sennheiser E609 Silver Microphone
- Schoeps CMC 6 Microphone Amplifier
- Schoeps MK 41 Supercardioid Capsule Matched Pair
- Royer Labs R-122V Vacuum Tube Active Ribbon Microphone
- Vintech Audio X73i Pre/EQ
- Avalon AD-2022 Dual Mono Microphone Preamplifier
- Lynx Aurora 16 I/O D/A and A/D Converter
- Comins 17" Concert Model Archtop Guitar
- Henriksen JazzAmp 110 Guitar Combo Amplifier