Recording Acoustic Guitar Tips?

[kylejun06]

Anyone have tips on recording acoustic guitar? For instance, where to position the mic, etc. I'm also looking for some good VSTs to enrich the sound. Specifically nice compressors/reverbs. Thanks!

[Stab Frenzy]

First thing with recording any acoustic instrument is to make sure the space you're playing it in sounds good, you can't do a good acoustic recording in a bad acoustic space. Try pointing the mic at the 12th fret for a start, and if you've got a second mic try pointing it towards the bridge. Remember to check the phase whenever you're using two mics on one source though. You'll find putting a mic pointing towards the sound hole to be full of boominess, so try to avoid it.

There's hundreds of articles around on recording acoustic guitars, it's a pretty commonly asked question. Have a search of sound on sound's website, I'm sure there's something there.

Have you got Blockfish? It's a good free compressor, worth checking out.