Londonderry Air

NICE chord melody! Nice playing and dynamics. Is that a Seagull S6?


Every time I hear this tune, I cannot suppress my inner 10-year-old and I think, "London Derriere."

Gotcha. Nice sound on that.

Onboard electronics are really best suited to onstage playing, but when recording in a studio, mics realistically capture the 'air' in an acoustic guitar's tone. You can also record the onboard pickup's signal as well, and mix it in as you see fit. Another cool way to record an acoustic is a close condenser, and a large diaphragm condenser on the middle of the room to capture the room sound. Mix them together and it sounds really 'live' coming from the speakers.

Impressive!

Thanks for sharing it with us.

K well this is awkward, I guess proboards doesn't let you edit posts after a certain time? I made a minor edit to the piece and deleted the former soundcloud link and was going to edit the OP to the new link but now I can't edit the OP and the original link is gone for ever sooo.. updated link below..

Londonderry Air

Soundclick also keeps the same link address.

Experiments in Rosewood v Mahogany


Was curious as an audio nerd how a mahogany b/s guitar would sound under the same conditions as the rosewood b/s Yamaha and tried another take with my D18.

I used the same mic position, seating position, mic settings, etc and copied the effects (eq and reverb) to each respective track (L, R, center) to try to keep the production aspects equal. The main difference being on the Yamaha recording the center track is the line-in and on the Martin recording it's just the same mono recording in the center minus a few db to level match the db of the Yamaha line in. The only thing I changed in the master was the ceiling and threshold on the limiter to make both tracks 14 LUFS and -0.5db TP. The main other variable other than concert v dreadnought is that the Martin's strings are about 4 months older than the Yamis (elixer 12s).

Was actually surprised how easy it is to tell the difference between the guitars. The Martin has a more woody tone with a pronounced mid-range and the Yamaha has a richer tone with pronounced highs and lows (verified on EQ), which are the classic descriptions of mahogany v rosewood.

Not sure what any of this proves but I feel like I need an OM-28...

Londonderry Air -D18 version