Again, I had posted this earlier on in the Andy Sneap forum, but it's never bad to spread the love
The guy had a problem that he wanted acoustic guitar on his record, but he didn't have an acoustic guitar. Okay, first I suggested to get the
BOSS AC-2 pedal, which is a tolerateable way to get it but it still doesn't sound like an acoustic guitar, but I remembered that I
once (sorry for the really bad musicianship in the clip) tried to do this same myself while being broke, so I couldn't even afford the pedal... I also tried to make this kinda "super lo-fi" drums where I just slapped my hands against my thighs and the shaker is breadcrumbs in an empty beercan, but thats a whole another story...
But anyways I decided to test that there must be a way to archieve the sound with plugins only and this is what I got.... The result isn't the best possible, I actually mixed this with hifi-speakers at the time
I also had a bit of an advantage getting the sound because I recorded the hollow body guitar, so it was easier to get the large sound, but you can archieve similiar sound with solid body guitar.
I recorded the Ibanez Artcore with passive humbuckers into a DI-box (I think I used Sansamp at the time, but it doesn't really matter) and captured the stringsounds with a Röde NT-5 pencil condencer, pointing about a foot away to the part where the neck and body meets.
Here is just the guitar from the clip above (DI dry, mic dry, DI wet, mic wet, DI+mic wet):
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1338211/guitar_to_acoustic.mp3The DI track has:- GuitarSuite Rednef Twin:
bright: on
volume: 6.2
low: 6.5
mid: 5.0
hi: 5.0
tremolo off
- EQ:
Highpass @ 112hz
+4dB @ 300hz
+4dB @ 950hz
The mic track had:- Guitar Suite Tubescreamer:
Gain: 0
Tone: 3.1
Level: 8.5
- EQ:
Highpass @ 200hz
-7dB @ 600hz
Lowpass @ 12khz
Then they are both run into a bus where there is:- YouWaShock!:
knob at 12.30 o'clock
mode A
- Roomworks Reverb:
Hall Church -preset
wet-dry mix is 15%
EQ:
+2dB hishelf @ 10khz
And a limiter just to prevent clipping (didn't occur)
