Sound On Sound Recording the Acoustic Guitar英文电子书.pdf

Recording Acoustic Guitar While physical modelling preamps may take the hassle out of recording electric guitars, you’re still going to need to reach for a mic when recording acoustic guitar. PAUL WHITE shows you how to get the best recorded sound, and offers a few of his favourite tricks of the trade. The advances in digital technology over the last few years have brought a whole range of usable electric guitar sounds within the reach of even the most cash-strapped home studio owner. Preamps from manufacturers such as Digitech, Line 6, Roland and Yamaha have managed to physically model the sounds of desirable amp and speaker combinations, allowing many musicians to record their electric guitars without having to plug in a single mic. However, things haven’t yet got so advanced that the same can be said of acoustic guitar. A few people have tried physically modelling the acoustic guitar, but with only limited success — these sounds are convenient to have when playing live, but aren’t really good enough to stand up to scrutiny in the studio. In fact, bet- ter results could probably be attained with a good MIDI sound module and some clever pro- gramming, though this approach rarely produces truly natural results either. And using sampled phrases isn’t ideal either, given that the chords of acoustic parts usually need to change with the track. It is for this reason that most home recordists still have to mike up an acoustic guitar when they want one in a track, even when they do their best to generate most other parts artificially. Recording an acoustic guitar is a complex task, however, and there are a number of different mik- ing and processing techniques available which can be brought to bear. The aim of this article is to show you how to get the best recorded sound, and also how to go about slotting it successfully into your mix. Preparing For Recording This may sound rather obvious,