How to Record Acoustic Guitar with only One Mic - Part 2: Microphone Positions 

first mic placement - 1:01 mic placement - 2:31 third placement - 4:36 fourth placement - 5:31

Super professional video! Great playing, great sound, nice suroundings and most important of all, great tips and easy to follow

Absolutely incredible production/training in every way... kudos and thank you!

Damn, this production value is off the charts! Good job!

Whoa. Love the production and all the attention to the details. So much goodie in less than 10 minutes. Bravo!

This is the best acoustic guitar micing tutorial I have ever seen. Thank you guys so much for making this available to everyone!

Such gorgeous production and super informative! Thanks a bunch for this.

awesome series team, thank you kindly!

Now thats how you do a High class Demonstration. Very Helpful, Very Informative and Super easy to understand.Wow...You and Your team are doing such a wonderful thing for musicians.And bytheway..Jaochim Rust is a lovely Guitar Player.

What a perfect tutorial! nailed it. thanks a lot!

Awesome training and amazing guitarist Joachim Rust

Thank you Georg, I really needed this class for setting up my recording studio, excellent videos, take care.

12th fret always my favourite. Nice tip using bridge position for slide though, cuts down on noise

This series is just fantastic. Exactly what I was looking for. Many, many thanks!

Damn this was all 1 take. Very well made.

Really good tutorials. Thanks for adding that tip about recording slide, I had just been wondering about that. Cheers. :0)

today i have been checking on many tutorials,, but this video is the best. keep it up, i love you guys.

Great set of videos! Thank you very much

No doubt the most informative clip I've seen relating to recording acoustics....simply done but incredibly effective...i learnt loads...thank you....now going to re mortgage the house to buy one of these mics....!!!

This was very helpful. Thank you so much, excellent job.

i'm only gonna add to what everyone is saying but i'm impressed by how good these videos are. the production value yes, but the information as well. the fact that it doesn't simply tell you how to do it, but what does, and why it works this way. obviously it's not thorough in so little time, but it gives all the info to be able to experiment on your own with a good understanding of what you're doing.

Wonderful series! More of this please

Super good tutorials! A real pleasure to watch! Neumann's mics are so good! I am so in love with my U89 I use it practically for everything leaving my other mics in the closet. Keep these great tutorials coming!

Wow you guys are a life saver! Thanks for these awesome tutorials!!!! would have loved to hear those 4 mics at the same time! Thanks :)

Thanks, very slick production and great suggestions. I found myself wishing I could hear the guitar a lot louder, at the same level as your voice . . .

Amazing Tutorial! What is the name of the song/riff played by Joachim Rust? BTW Amazing guitarist.

Great videos. Very well made and lovely playing. I love my 102.

wow. this series is GOLD. and the one about vocals too. You guys have a new subscriber :)

best demonstration I've seen. thank you, really helpful.

I love Neumann. And now, I love their videos, too.

Great video and microphones! Thanks

Love these!!

Thanks for this video, I was recording and got bad sounds when I hit the bass strings or even strummed all 6 strings, this intense buzz. Will try these methods 🙏

Thanks for this. Some great tips. I am just getting a mic and was thinking about trying to record with mic and a line in from the pickup. How would this tend to affect your mic positioning choice?

This is gold!

I just bought a mic to record my acoustic and had no clue how to go around it and these videos help so much, thank you! :)

Fantastic video series. Thanks for the advice.

Very helpful video 👍

Awesome - great advice!

Awesome!!! Thank you!!

Thank you, very interesting

Thank You 🙌🙌🙌🙌Very Helpful Video 🔥🔥🔥🔥.

Great video! What kind of Larrivee Guitar is this (which model)?

Thanks you so much it is clear, and really easy to understand. I am a happy man...Love from France!

What should I do to get better that this style of acoustic playing?

Thank you!!

Big wow and thanks

Greats tips thanks a lot!

The best positions comparison that I watched

Very helpful...i liked it very much...could u pls hlp with stereo miking as well...

Wow just like I mic my Aco Gtr's bottom bout & at the Neck where it meets the body l but I use a small dia, Condenser there.

Is the tlm 102 better than km 184 for this purpose?

Priceless. I assume this applies equally to a U87

Hi Georg.Do you offer a formal and complete course for home studio recording ?

Guitar player and the guitar is awesome.

great videos, thank you so much, learnt a lot

very useful video, I´ll try it out with my TLM 102 :)

I request you to please make some guitar fingure picking lessons thats are played in these videos ..please please please !!! those pickings are so beautiful...Thankyou :)

Loved it! really helpful and clear to understand. I know the main title of the tutorial is about how to record an acoustic guitar with only one mic, but, there are big differences in sound if you use for example 2 different positions? What I mean is, what you get by mixing mics in different positions is just an addition of the characteristics of both, or you can create a new different sensation when you hear it? Sorry if the question is not as clear as it can (I don't really know how to explain it better), but anyway, thank you so muh for the videos, great job ^^

If Neumann did tutorials, they'd probably be the best tutorials in the world. Damn it, they've done it again..

Awesome video presentation :-) You don't say whether this mic is being used with a mic preamp, is it? and what 'after recording' production effects have you made to the original recording?

learned a lot though I did know some tricks taught to me by the engineer I like to work with....only, I don't have budget for Neumann microphones, I use Octava MK319 and I goddamn like the thing

Wonderful instructive videos. I also like the various mic stands (height is perfect). What mic stands are you using?

super

Would you please send me the chords and picking pattern for the song in the tutorial?

Thankyou for the very informative videos. Now , all I have to do is to decide on a neumann microphone solution. These microphones sound good in your hands, with correct mic placement. I think the Neumann recommendation for recording Acoustic guitar accurately with complete detail and transperancy is a stereo pair of KM184. Is this correct ?

Very good

using external Microphones is great in addition to using the built in transducer or other internal pick ups . experimenting with different combinations until you get a desirable sound … just make sure you have a very low noise microphone … I am glad to see Neumann making some affordable high quality Microphones ….

u don;t say what type of a guitar it is i would like to know and is this straight in of you used eq and what preamp was it i'd like to have this chain at my place Thanks

They have 4 Newman mics i wish i have one hope you know 1 can cost almost 2000 cad

Sir what is the name of music used in this video at the beginning. Can you please tell me?

i love these videos, for sure. But i always chuckle when he says home studio academy. Yea i have a room just like that in my house 😂

Hey There: I came across some of your videos on RU-vid. I am starting to record my acoustic guitar for RU-vid videos etc. At this moment, I do not have any type of audio interface, so although I do not have a Neumann microphone, I already have a blue yeti thx. My problem is that when I record directly into audacity, my guitar is sounding wobbly.., weakly fading back and forth into the sound. I have followed the instructions by Geert Verdickt on several of his videos, including "how to record acoustic guitar with only one mic"and it still exists. Can you make any recommendations with what I currently have? Again: * Acoustic guitar * Blue yeti mic (with, stand tried at 12th fret, and also slightly above by the top of the guitar * Audacity on a Windows 11 laptop. Thanks!

very interesting

I would kill to have a room like that to record in!

I have a problem: When I play, my right arm moves on the guitar body. That movement creates annoying "hiss" sound. How can I reduce it? Lifting my arm is not an answer, because its impossible to play guitar without touching it. I've tried many mic positions, but nothing seems to help.

nice video. and nice music. :D do you have tabs or a name of the song that the guitarist is playing?

Can anyone link some bands (artists) who are playing a similiar guitar style like that guy is playing at the beginning? Thanks!

please tell which is the basic level (dB)of recording acoustic guitar?

What's the make of the guitar amp, with the guitar on top of it. Behind the player on his left hand side?

Lol this is such a great video!

So, why don't you put a mic in front and 3-4 feet away from the sound hole? I don't think it will be boomy.

Which position gives a Nick Drake-like sound?

so if you wanted could record that guitar using all those mics at the same time? or would that cause problems? or is that just dumb lol the reason why i'm asking is cause you say every position has there own sound.

6:00 tune!

U deserve more subscriber bruhh

Hi I really like your videos, fantastic way of explaining. In the first video you say that the mic should be around 12 inches away, but here you say that going closer eliminates room noise...my room has a ton of echo and I've found (thanks to you) that closer to the guitar is warmer and less echo. Other people such as Recording Revolution, say that you should be a foot away too..

what mic stand are you using in this video?

great tutorial. happy tlm 103 owner

Do you use Eq for these recordings?

Can I have one of those mics :)

This would be a great video if the guy strummed with a pik too! I'm sure they would sound very different..

is it weird that i really want that chair?

12th fret.... say that really fast 10 times in a row!

good to see people using mics again. plug in's sound terrible.

he is professor of money heist in mic world

Is that professor from money heist??

great video but would have been good to tune the guitar first

sounds dull, boomy and weak. Tutorial and placements are ok, next time change the player, guitar, and last but not least, the microphones to AKGs