I've recorded myself on acoustic 1 time and this makes so much sense as to why the acoustic sits the way it does in the mix. It was a ton of high end information which worked out fine, but it wasn't at all what I envisioned at the start.
Please make videos like this about vocal recording! You're the best RU-vidr about teaching recording techniques! Everything I learn from you can be used in many musical genres, not only metal. Thank you.
The last engineer that recorded me acoustic, used 2 SE VR2's about 12 inches in front of the sound hole, in a blumlein setup (1st one 45 degrees towards the neck joint, 2nd one 45 degrees towards the bridge) He then got me to tap the bridge and notched out a few resonant frequencies using pro Q3. I've tried this similar approach at home and it seems to work great, even with putting the mics in front of the sound hole sounding like something only a madman would do. The way you describe the brightness and darkness of the mic positions is great and very clear.
I got the best sound outta acoustic guitar by accident when I was producing and mixing one song. I felt there was one part that needed something so I doodled with acoustic guitar to add something to the part and just threw 8-patterned mic about 1,5 meters away from me to my right and that sounded so good and ended at the record as it was. :D It's hard to descripe in english how that placement worked but the end result sounded very organic and had just enough everything that part needed.
I'm more of that low end midst. I like putting an acoustic sound mixed with high gain on verse compositions. Saving this video for your course. Great info!
1st of all can we take a moment to give big applause on Mr. Kohle's acoustic skill that was beautiful and outstanding, sir! also my fav. place are on 3rd place with helper on 1st position that you mention on this video (just trim down volume on 1st position too prevent make it too sharp on mix) and in past when i first time start doing acoustic recording i usually doing X/Y position. downside of it in my experience wrong 1 degree or a few cm phase issue appear and i almost though my mic was broken (i'm still starting out back then so didn't quite understand phase issue).
Thanks man! 🤘❤️ I’m also showing stereo miking techniques in the course. You’re absolutely right that it can be tricky when miking close. Both phase issues and issues with both channels sounding too different from each other
Thank you, very useful. I like to record with a stereo ZOOM recorder - it tricks my brain into feeling I'm in the room and I think it's pretty cool too. :)
Just try to combine a pair of mics in postition 1 (in front of the 15th fret) and 3 (looking into the bridge) and try to play with the balance of both by one knob, you'll probably get an excellent result (also don't forget about phase correlations 😉)
Great video! One more position I find useful is to aim the microphone at the point of body that is halfway down from sound hole to the lower edge, and half way from the soundhole to the edge in the fret direction. (I dont know how to put it better, but something like right breast of the guitar if it was a torso :D) This way I tend to get just enough of body and brightness without excessive boominess or left-hand noise :-)
My problem isn't an acoustic guitar, it's a dense mix. By the time I've fitted the acoustic guitar into a mix like that, it just turns into a shaker. The mic move is smart though, I dig that.
That often IS the function if a stunted acoustic guitar in a dense mix. Unless you wanna thin out the other instruments. But in the course I’m showing that with a bit of EQ you can also have a thicker acoustic guitar tone.
I haven't watched this yet but I'm excited to start; it seems like a lot of people just have one technique they always default to so I'm curious to see what you think.
There's more than just one. Always depends on what you want. And on top of the mono miking techniques, there's stereo, and there are room mics. Lots of options!
The band is called Toona. They have a RU-vid channel. But if you stay tuned to my channel, you’ll hear the full song soon. There will be a follow-up video.
Thanks man. That song is part of a vocal contest. Here’s the full making-of video of that song. You can also download it. Enjoy! RECORDING an full METAL SONG from start to finish! (and YOU can be my SINGER!) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gi6AiXvERmI.html
