How to Record Acoustic Guitar with only One Mic - Part 3: Hear the Sound of Different Microphones 

6:55 TLM102 7:18 TLM103 7:42 KM184 8:09 Dynamic Mic 8:35 KM104

This is such a relaxing tutorial series...and informative! Pleasant to watch, well presented, and chock full of good insights. Thanks!

Have to congratulate you on a superbly presented video series! So well done! Your one camera shoot with no edits demonstrate the wonderful camera work & well planned choreographed set ups in the videos. Also the additional voice over taking over when you pause on camera works very well. I recently purchased a Neumann TLM 102 and it has a beautiful natural quality & gives that wonderful upfront Neumann signature presence, and they're all still made in Germany! The quality of your microphones & company extends to your video presentations. 😎👍

I absolutely love these videos and Neumann mics . Just so cool how much passion this guy and this company clearly have , Neumanns have a high price tag but worth every penny and more

Did I see any cut in this?! Hell no, one take! And even voiceovers during set ups were perfectly alligned with video. I haven't seen such a good tutorials IN MY LIFE. I suppose if Neumann makes best mics in the world, tutorials must follow :) I love that you showed product from your competitor and didn't do that to show how bad it is, but just to show a difference. Back in a day, when I just started, I took a loan and bought just 4 mics - pair of small condencer Oktavas (for stereo), Shure SM57 and TLM102. And to be honest, I could save some money and buy just TLM102. This mic is my absolutely, most beloved mic I use in almost any mono situation. I tried many different ones and always came back to Neumann. It helped me rocord dozens af audiobooks, solo isntrument and vocals. Used only Octavas a few times for stereo and that's it. Best price/performance mic ever.

Give me more! Throw that TLM103 on a guitar amp! It is magic on a amp. Also, I put it in a drum room at another studio. When he solo the drums back, he turned to me and laughed. He said "The TLM103 alone, could be used as the drum track, and it was just a room mic". I of course agreed already knowing the power of this mic. Notice he says "Quiet room". He is not joking. You think your home studio is quiet? Wait until you try this mic. You will find out if you can hear cars driving by or the phone ring and such.

Cinematography in these videos is insane

Thank you neumann for this series!!

Learnt a lot in this series. Thanks. Much love from Kenya.

Exactly what I was looking for, excellent tutorial, thorough and easy to understand. Obviously there is more to it after you are done recording but nothing beats getting good sounding takes, it just saves a lot of time. Thank you for the videos!!

Excellent presentation. You must have a background in dancing or stage. On a practical level- I walked away knowing exactly how to proceed in my quest for good acoustic guitar sounds. Thank you!

This is nice, I wish you would have done this also with 2 microphones...One microphone is great when you are putting it in a mix...But for solo guitar, its nice to have 2 microphones...in my opinion..

Great demonstration. Would love to see a video on preamps and settings used for recording acoustic guitar. Keep up the great work.

This is a nice series , thank you . That being said , it would be nice to hear how these wonderful microphones sound while playing a 12 string guitar 🙏

AMAZING videos! Best I have ever seen. I have a TLM103, but this makes me want a TLM102 in Black!

Thank you so much for all these videos you guys are making. They are great for a newbie like me. The guitar is such a beautiful sounding instrument. I'm going to start focusing on making recordings of musicians in my locale featuring them. I just need to learn the proper techniques. Thanks again.

Just some notes for myself: TLM103: 1:26 KM184: 3:44

Great little series on recording acoustic guitars. Thanks for all the tips, ideas and considerations. The guitar in this video seems to be one of Larrivee's larger models. Great Canadian made guitars that sound and play great for a relatively reasonable price. I'm using a Larrivee OM-03 with all mahogany back, top and sides, and an ebony fingerboard. Picked it up used for $650!!! Paired with a Neumann it should record just right. Thanks again Georg Neumann. :0)

Awesome series! Learning highly valuable technics

This series of videos is incredibly useful and well produced, but please eliminate the annoying high-pitch sounds when the microphone names appear on the video. They sound like artifacts in the audible range of the acoustic guitar, and they are completely maddening for anyone listening with headphones. Thank you very much for the wonderful videos. Also, remember that RU-vid audio is encoded in the lossy format of AAC at around 128 kbps, so we are not hearing the true beautiful fidelity of these amazing Neumann microphones. But they still sound wonderful.

AWESOME comparison! LOVED all three in this series.

Before the video: As I just ordered a Neumann TLM 103 to up my home-recording-game these videos are an absolute treasure... thx for making the effort =) ... After the video: after this one I'm sure, that I picked right. I decided for the 103 over the 107 because in certain reviews it appeared to me as if the 103 would pick up more separately the different strings combining to a chord, while with the 107 the bass seemed too dominant and overall the chords more sounded like a single tone instead of a composition of tones... you know what I mean :D Anyway, really looking forward to experiment with this awesome mic... And to hear you say it's great for vocals, too... yeah, that was consoling :D what would a singer/songwriter be without a voice :D

it is a very helpfull demonstration. thanks a lot.

Hi, thanks for good suggestions for placing microphone. I have recorded Iranian hammered dulcimer using Neumann kms 104 and Zoom h6. The result was amazing. 🙏

I think the tlm 102 is more natural and has more mid emphasis vs the tlm103. in this application I prefer the 102

Now mix the KM184 with the TLM102 and damn! You'll have it

@4:25 he talks about dynamic mics if youre like me and thats what you were looking for!

Thanks a lot for the videos....

This was fantastic series! I have experiemented a bit now, and also since bought some new compact cardiods. I would love to learn about using 2 mics (and different 2nd mic). For example, I love the lower bridge position with my condenser TLM 102 and my matched compact condenser at ~12th fret in XY, but I get (a) a weird echo / phasing now (when I play back), and (b) lots of strong noise. Your videos are the best I have seen

Dat TLM103 tho... good god what a great sound. So big and rich and Neumann-y.

vote for the clear, and therefore woodier, tone of the KM184

you did a great job with this videos, thanks :)

I like the dynamic best. Why a vocal dynamic mic though? The SM57 is a pretty popular choice for acoustic guitar, in certain situations, ribbon mics too. It's a bit unfair to be all like "well, this is a dynamic vocal mic, it's not really designed for this stuff, not like these condenser mics over here..."

Thanks for the hard work and clear, fast paced demos. I've recorded and mixed a lot of acoustic and acoustic/electric music in small rooms over the past 50 years. I agree with virtually every word you said and it was validating to know I've mostly been doing it right for the bulk of my career. But I have a question. In the part 1 and 2 videos on how to record guitar, you aptly demonstrated that pointing a mic right at the sound hole generally yields suboptimal results. Yet in this video on selecting the right mic, all were pointed almost directly at the sound hole. The differences among the mics were still easy to detect, but wouldn't using the better placement you taught us yield even better results? I'm honestly not trying to be critical or hyper technical. I'm hoping, and expecting, that there is a probably a very good reason and I'll be quite fine if I'm being dull and missing the obvious . I recently retired and am starting to record myself playing guitar for the first time ever. I have lots of good mics and real world experience, but as a producer/engineer/drummer/keyboard player who is finally getting comfortable enough playing guitar to entertain recording my efforts, I feel like I've forgotten everything and am starting over. I'm unaccustomed to hearing myself play guitar and am hating everything. It's not unlike most people's reaction to hearing a recording of their voice played back for the first time. Most people hate that moment and are shocked at how their voice sounds outside their head. I'm sure I'll get more confident, but I'm having trouble being objective at this stage. Thanks again for the videos. I really am enjoying them and trying not to be a pain but the question is niggling at me so I had to ask it.

It's just a matter of opinion. But I feel that the model TLM 103 has too much personality. I rather to hear the TLM 102, because you can mixed the way you like. The TLM 102 seems to be more flexble. The TLM 103 forces you to sound the way It's built. It feels that way to me. But, no doubt, to excelent mics. (If I could, I would by all models) :)

I love these videos guys! Thanks a lot !!! :D

Is true that removing the internal foam from the TLM-102 improves its performance?

Very Good, Ive learned a lot. Thank You!

Solo por el placer de la comparación de sonidos aunque esten fuera del presupuesto de muchos (me incluyo)... Me agradaría mucho una siguiente versión del video añadiendo los tope de gama como el 49 por ejemplo. Todos, excelentes micrófonos.

The guitar player plays ever so gentle, but not all artists play in that way.. give more variance on the guitar sound as to how the guitar is played.

Why doesnt Neumann make a 3/4" condencer...seems you can layer more tracks with them...Id like to see why the KSM32 or the AT4033 are more recommended for this...

What about video recording? Any tips on low-budget cameras? Will an iPad do a good job if I can't afford buying a proper camera?

Nice demo. How about recording both guitar and vocal using one mic? Is it possible to get good results?

Very interesting ! Why not the TLM 107 ? The 107 is better on guitar ?

Hey George... Don't be talking over most of the recording when trying to make a comparison. Listening to the nuances was like trying to run between raindrops because there wasn't enough time to absorb the sound of each. Sheesh.

Excellente tutorial!! really helpful to me to understand the recordign process since ia have tried tor ecord some classical stuff i made but achieving awful results while recording since I have no idea how to do that. I have a question..while recording should i set the track to mono or to stereo.. I mean is there anty difference if a record in mono or stereo if i only have one mic¿¿

Is a matched stereo pair of KM184 the Neumann recommended solution for recording and capturing the natural sound of good quality acoustic guitars ? I just want to record my guitar, the way it is, the way it sounds to the ears .

Hi. Great video! Just want to know if those mics are stereo. I tried to record my acoustic guitar with only one mic and I only got a mono sound. Left and right channels are exactly the same so it sounded awful.

Great comparison, I now know where to place my mics! Wish you used a U87, would love to hear that in comparison. QUESTION: did you use a dedicated preamp or just what was in the mixing board? Any EQing or compression for the final mix?

can you please also include the details of other recording gears you have used for the acoustic guitar.... for eg the preamp, audio interface etc....

What mic should I buy for live playing?

Its really good thanks and nice thanks i good comment god bills all of u from srilanka

These videos are amazing. If I have a really nice unique sounding guitar, would you say KM-184 is the way to go? I want to capture the most accurate sound

TLM103 for acoustic FTW

Thanks a lot for making this great video! I have one question, does a dynamic mic have any noise floor? They don't accept any external power supply, only generate weak signals by the coil movement, does this motion really make self noise?

If your mics has the same quality with your videos they must worth the money.

MAJORCOOL !!!

very good videos

cool stuff :)

Hello ! I’m a clarinet player and a fan of your products, i need your help and your opinion too. I have a home studio and i need to record a Clarinet in a professional way, what microphone model from Neumann do you recommend me please ? Thank you !

Very good comparison. My favs are TLM103, KM184(proudly owned) & KMS-104 (gonna get it now for vox interac of SM58). How resistant 104 to feedback since it's a condenser mic?

How are you hearing the mic sounds in the room?

what kind of mic preamp did you use in this video？

Who else thought he was going to say that the TLM103 is "one louder" than the TLM102?

I liked the sound of the first stage mic the most.

Is that an actual stone room, or is it a wall treatment?

My question is can you record a guitar and vocal at the same time or do you need 2 mics?

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 :)

guitar tab?

Just got the KM-184 and did my first recording with it this week. Curious what you think! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FZjz05ryEro.html

Whomever thumbs down this is...

All I can say is that I must be totally tone deaf. It doesn't matter if I listen to the tracks of this entire microphone comparison series or if I listen to tracks on other videos that have EQ'ed or compressed. They all sound the same to me. :-(

I need to know witch amp your using.

Warum muss man den Menschen immer erklären was sie jetzt hören, wie toll gerade die Höhen klingen usw.? Etwas weniger Audiokommentar zum Film fände ich nicht unpassend. Dieses, wir bewegen uns wie Ninjas lautlos durch Raum ist ja noch ganz witzig aber jemand aufzufordern genau hinzuhören während man eigentlich die ganze Zeit labert, ist irgendwie...

Umm acoustic guitar should never be mixed with electric beats. Lol.

I think you should talk less, and maybe add text with the explanations, so we can hear the gutiar. LOL

Awesome