Thanks for sharing these techniques. Recording resonator guitars is quite different from regular acoustic guitars, but it's also a niche, so there isn't too much info on it.
ED....So far, I only tried recording my Dobro with a sE7 mic, direct into my Allen & Heath ZED 60-10FX mixer, and I just cannot get enough volume out of it, even with pushing all three volume controls, the top gain trim, the track fader, and the main mix fader, into my DAW. I have a RODE mic like the first one you used, so I will try that next. Maybe I need to use a DI Box in between. I guess correctly......that one sounded warmer to me on your trial run.
Your large diameter mic looks about 30” above the strings, yet more often I see a distance of about 10” from the suggestions of Randy Kohl’s and others from a condenser mic. I also see some placements about the sound holes but I am dubious of the idea that much sound comes out of the holes
Hey! That first guitar is my model! It's the Gretsch G3170 and I feel very fortunate to own one.
Thanks for sharing these techniques. Recording resonator guitars is quite different from regular acoustic guitars, but it's also a niche, so there isn't too much info on it.
ED....So far, I only tried recording my Dobro with a sE7 mic, direct into my Allen & Heath ZED 60-10FX mixer, and I just cannot get enough volume out of it, even with pushing all three volume controls, the top gain trim, the track fader, and the main mix fader, into my DAW. I have a RODE mic like the first one you used, so I will try that next. Maybe I need to use a DI Box in between. I guess correctly......that one sounded warmer to me on your trial run.
Your large diameter mic looks about 30” above the strings, yet more often I see a distance of about 10” from the suggestions of Randy Kohl’s and others from a condenser mic. I also see some placements about the sound holes but I am dubious of the idea that much sound comes out of the holes