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Robert Sands · 27th February 2007

This thread is great and one of the reasons why this forum is important.

I don't know that I've gotten my acoustic guitar recording to the stage of greatness yet - still working on it. My setup on most of the things I do is my Martin OM42 (a smaller OOO size Rosewood body guitar to cut down on the boominess of a dread) into a pair of KM 184's - one at the 12th fret pointing towards the soundhole and the other mic slightly below and slightly in back of the bridge. Both mics are about 10 inches from the guitar. Sounds like a lot of you guys are further away from the guitar so I'm going to try that approach. The mics go thru an Amek DMCL with just a touch of its compressor. I record into DP. When done I will then use UAD1 Cambridge EQ to sculpt the sound and the UAD LA2A for compression. Like I said, I'm still experimenting and a thread like this one is gold to me!!!

27th February 2007	#36
Robert Sands Gear addict Joined: Nov 2003 Location: New Jersey Posts: 444	This thread is great and one of the reasons why this forum is important. I don't know that I've gotten my acoustic guitar recording to the stage of greatness yet - still working on it. My setup on most of the things I do is my Martin OM42 (a smaller OOO size Rosewood body guitar to cut down on the boominess of a dread) into a pair of KM 184's - one at the 12th fret pointing towards the soundhole and the other mic slightly below and slightly in back of the bridge. Both mics are about 10 inches from the guitar. Sounds like a lot of you guys are further away from the guitar so I'm going to try that approach. The mics go thru an Amek DMCL with just a touch of its compressor. I record into DP. When done I will then use UAD1 Cambridge EQ to sculpt the sound and the UAD LA2A for compression. Like I said, I'm still experimenting and a thread like this one is gold to me!!!