Recorded the new 12 string today

I went to bed early last night and woke up at 2:00 AM.  I decided I was going to record 12 string acoustic.  Made a pot of coffee and went at it.  This was the first chance I'd had to try out one of my new mic preamps, the Great River MP-500NV.  I plugged it into the Warm Audio 1176 compressor clone and set up the U87 to mic the 12 string.  I wrote a couple quick parts and practiced them for a few minutes to get them where the precision mistakes were minimal.  While I was doing that I got the compressor set like I wanted and then recorded it.  I cut and pasted the parts together to get some semblence of a structure.  That input chain sounded very good.  When I record this song for keeps I'm going to try a different mic and preamp just to see what happens.  Even though it sounded very good, the U87 had more bottom end than what I think the guitar will need when mixed in with other instruments.  A KM184 should thin it out a bit and tame some of the bottom end of the guitar.  A different mic preamp could also help with that.

I have so much fun with this stuff.  I have so many pieces of new gear I am unfamiliar with it's like Christmas every time I get to use one of them.