| My initial approach would be to point the Rode at the twelfth fret, angled just a hair toward the soundhole, about a foot away. Adjust distance and angle (recording short clips of each) and you'll start to see how important positioning is. I am a big fan of setting a second mic in x-y mode, which means approximately a 90 degree angle to the first one, so it'll be pointing toward the neck/nut. Play with the angle, and the nice thing about this is (like m/s recording) it'll give you one FOR SURE good mic (for rhythm playing) and a second mic you can hard pan with the first if you want a really big acoustic guitar sound.
Another idea is to record the pickup as well, if you're able. That'll give you a possible three sounds, and you're bound to be able to get what you want that way.
Caveat: I usually do two small diaphragm condensors for x-y micing, but no matter what kind of mics you use, as long as the capsules are really close without touching, you'll have no phase issues.
-Matt
p.s. a gentle low end roll off with a high-pass filter/eq around 70-80 hz (6 or 12 db/octave) will help clean up unneccesary low end you might be capturing by having too much "sound hole woof" in your mics. |