Recommend a Mic for acoustic guitar recording

I usually got multi tracked acoustic guitar:
  • Townsend Lab (now UAD) Sphere in 180 mode
  • matche pair of Rode NT5
  • piezo sound
them I mix according to what I need for that song. Often, especially for dense pop song the piezo alone get the work done.
 
Chewie5150 said:
just now I've been working on an Acoustic preset based off @Cooper Carter G66 vid on direct acoustic. I have a TC body rez pedal in the OUT 3 - In 3 loop. I was wondering why I was only getting mono (left) signal unless i had a pitch or delay block later in the signal path to make it more stereo then figured it must be due to the body rez pedal. the loop i have placed after the amp block so I'm guessing this takes it back to mono yes? i tried placing the FX loop before the amp block in the grid which leaves things stereo but sacrifices the tone a lot. the body rez sounds best placed IMO after the amp block but then it affects the stereo signal. thoughts?

I'm not sure if this is related or plays a part in this signal path. I'm running spdif into the Axe from my Apollo. In the Axe i have the I/O settings correct.
Digital input source: spdif
spdif/aes out source: output 1
input 1 source: digital
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Im working on this acoustic axe FX 3 preset things too. Today made one that it's quite decent sounding (for my ears atleast ;D (Taylor GSmini-E).
Need to do same work for Taylor 210CE later but before that below is soundtest clips (Taylor GSmini-E and Axe FX3 preset).
No post-processing and just straight recording (Taylor GSmini-E -> Axe FX 3 Mainout 1 L and R -> Presonus Line in 1 and 2 -> Studio One 6.5 and recorded).

First clip is with my own ballad backing track (video I put things together using FLstudio 21) and second just without backing track only guitar.

(guitar starts at 0.14)

https://maihinnousu.net/s/33538
 
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GuitarChapPappa said:
Im working on this acoustic axe FX 3 preset things too. Today made one that it's quite decent sounding (for my ears atleast ;D (Taylor GSmini-E).
Need to do same work for Taylor 210CE later but before that below is soundtest clips (Taylor GSmini-E and Axe FX3 preset).
No post-processing and just straight recording (Taylor GSmini-E -> Axe FX 3 Mainout 1 L and R -> Presonus Line in 1 and 2 -> Studio One 6.5 and recorded).

First clip is with my own ballad backing track (video I put things together using FLstudio 21) and second just without backing track only guitar.

(guitar starts at 0.14)

https://maihinnousu.net/s/33538
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that sounds really good. Going direct via the Axe? and yet sounds quite natural!! meaning not so 'direct'
 
Chewie5150 said:
that sounds really good. Going direct via the Axe? and yet sounds quite natural!! meaning not so 'direct'
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Yep! Direct Guitar to Axe FX 3 and of course Axe is connected to my audio interface.
I look one video in Youtube first and use that information, but didn't use any IR etc. and made some my own tweaking.

This video I checked

I put that preset to Axe change if someone want to check it and tweak it. If different guitar then small tweaks for (AMP bass/middle/treble) (PEQ) and EQ needs to do). And if don't want that other delay (500ms) then not using or tweaking.

That my preset base for my Jazz guitar preset and some parts I checked from that video. I realize that Jazz guitar preset can work quite okay with normal acoustic guitars.

Here is that preset: http://axechange.fractalaudio.com/detail.php?preset=10897
 
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GuitarChapPappa said:
Yep! Direct Guitar to Axe FX 3 and of course Axe is connected to my audio interface.
I look one video in Youtube first and use that information, but didn't use any IR etc. and made some my own tweaking.

This video I checked

I put that preset to Axe change if someone want to check it and tweak it. If different guitar then small tweaks for (AMP bass/middle/treble) (PEQ) and EQ needs to do). And if don't want that other delay (500ms) then not using or tweaking.

That my preset base for my Jazz guitar preset and some parts I checked from that video. I realize that Jazz guitar preset can work quite okay with normal acoustic guitars.

Here is that preset: http://axechange.fractalaudio.com/detail.php?preset=10897
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thx for the share. I just finished watching that vid and got those free IR's. made a scene with the blocks and values to compare with mine. I'm def getting a really nice acoustic sound here even direct. Love seeing different approaches
 
Chewie5150 said:
thx for the share. I just finished watching that vid and got those free IR's. made a scene with the blocks and values to compare with mine. I'm def getting a really nice acoustic sound here even direct. Love seeing different approaches
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I forgot to take those IR's :D (I take them now)
I usually don't use IR's but maybe I need to check them and use)
 
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