Mic Recommendations For Acoustic Guitar

[wahwah]

Re: Mic Recommendations For Acoustic Guitar

Never heard of Line Audio, but the clips I heard online sound very promising!

Here's a quick test I did with the Line Audio CM3 on acoustic guitar, in a very ordinary room, as evidenced by the birds singing outside the window at the end!

The only EQ is a high pass filter @ 100Hz on the way in. Some transparent limiting on the way out for levels.





Cheers........................................ wahwah

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Mic Recommendations For Acoustic Guitar

Yo Geoff....sounds great!

 

[wahwah]

Re: Mic Recommendations For Acoustic Guitar

Yo Geoff....sounds great!

Hey Niels...yep, they're a great little mic. I'll put up another clip soon with it matched to a sE X1R ribbon mic in M/S configuration, sounds stellar!



Cheers......................................... Geoff

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

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Man, that does sound brilliant; thanks for posting it! May have to get a CM1 as well as a pair of OM1s!

 

[wahwah]

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Man, that does sound brilliant; thanks for posting it! May have to get a CM1 as well as a pair of OM1s!

Yes, it's worth noting that the CM3 is subcardioid, so it's wider than the average cardioid SDC. I'm also not a fan of the bog standard spaced stereo pair setup for acoustics, otherwise I would probably grab another CM3, in fact I might anyway at such a great price. A pair of OM1s would be great for all sorts of things if you have a room that does them justice. The stereo options I prefer for acoustic guitar are either a single CM3, double tracked and panned, or the CM3 with a figure 8 mic in M/S if it's a part that suits just one guitar track. The Line Audio mics are truly one of the best value deals in SDCs. There's a blind test shootout somewhere that puts the CM3 up against a similar Schoeps (at about 15 times the price) on a violin recording. Plenty of people confidently chose the CM3 as the better sounding mic, thinking it was the Schoeps. Well worth checking out this kind of quality at such an affordable price.



Cheers..................................... wahwah

 

[Kamanda~SD]

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Yup, that CM3 sounds great. What kind of acoustic was that?

 

[wahwah]

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Yup, that CM3 sounds great. What kind of acoustic was that?

It's a medium size dreadnought made by an Australian luthier, Phil Carson-Crickmore. http://www.carson-crickmoreguitars.com.au

It was one of his first builds, made in '85.




Cheers..................................... wahwah

 

[wahwah]

Re: Mic Recommendations For Acoustic Guitar

Here's another quick test with the Line Audio CM3 paired with a sE X1R Ribbon mic in M/S configuration. This is one of my favourite ways to record acoustic guitar, particularly when you want just one acoustic track in the mix but you want it to have some stereo width. Both of these mics are relatively inexpensive, but still yield some nice sounding results. Again, the only EQ is some high pass filtering.




Here's a shot of the M/S mic setup, with the CM3 on top.






Cheers.................................. wahwah