Acoustic Guitar Recording - Mic Choices

Reign of Tachos · 06-18-2013, 01:17 PM

Various guides around the internet that I came to before here told me that relative distance between the source and the speakers made a difference in noise levels. It didn't.

Right now, my guitar is plugged into my microphone jack on the front of tower via an XLR to 3.5mm cable. I went in to the settings, turned off DC offset cancellation and acoustic echo cancellation. I set microphone boost to 0 but have to put microphone volume to 100 otherwise I can't hear anything.

The noise seems pretty much the same. When I say noise I mean a constant background hiss - like white noise but less ear piercing.

This is why (as I've said and you also said) I feel like this is a guitar pickup problem, and am looking for advice on mics.

06-18-2013, 01:17 PM	#8 (permalink)
Reign of Tachos Groupie Join Date: Jun 2013 Posts: 12	Various guides around the internet that I came to before here told me that relative distance between the source and the speakers made a difference in noise levels. It didn't. Right now, my guitar is plugged into my microphone jack on the front of tower via an XLR to 3.5mm cable. I went in to the settings, turned off DC offset cancellation and acoustic echo cancellation. I set microphone boost to 0 but have to put microphone volume to 100 otherwise I can't hear anything. The noise seems pretty much the same. When I say noise I mean a constant background hiss - like white noise but less ear piercing. This is why (as I've said and you also said) I feel like this is a guitar pickup problem, and am looking for advice on mics.