Acoustic guitar recording

[steve]

There's an SOS review of the T-Bone SCT2000 (and Retro Tube) here: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may06/a ... nemics.htm
I've also used the SCT2000 and I agree with everything he has to say about it. Bare in mind that he is comparing it with a microphone that is over 7 times the price of the SCT2000.

At the lower end of the T-Bone range of large diaphragm condensers, I've used the SC450 http://www.thomann.de/gb/the_tbone_sc450.htm and for the price it is pretty amazing. Unfortunately the same cannot be said of the USB version. The SC450USB is let down by a noise level that is just too high when recording quiet sources. It may be fine if you are recording something that is loud, but that wouldn't be a classical guitar.

[kozikowski]

Doesn't have to be a guitar, either. I once had to get a voice track from a shy, four-foot-tall Asian woman whose entire reason for existence was to become one with the wall paper. I have no idea how the producer managed to get her to agree to this, but she did have a very good voice for the animated character.

We finally got to an agreement by telling her that many actors, most actually, play characters completely divorced from their true persons and doing this well was a mark of excellence, and that she was going to disappoint the whole crew if we couldn't hear her character speak.

Koz

[Ceahorse]

Your guys have been very helpful. I like the tip about using USB to bypass the soundcard. I was thinking about getting something along the lines of the ZoomH2. Because of its portability and plug-and-play-ness. I have been using, up until present, and into the future until i can justify a spend with the wife, my cellphone camera, and lapel mic. It's not the worst, considering i have compared it to the $6 mic i plugged it the mic jack of my pc and captured with Audacity.

The current quality can be seen here.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Ceahorse

For anyone that might be interested.

I use this phone.

http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/product ... c=au&lc=en

WHat i have taken from my reading, it quite contrary to what i thought. It seems that my assumption that a cheap mic could be cleaned up with proper software, but the way i understand it is, simply said. Garbage in garbage out, No recyclables.

[Irish]

Garbage in garbage out

The first rule of recording ...

And computing ...

And many other things.

PO'L