[MUSIC] Let's talk just for a second about miking acoustic guitar. I know there's a lot of acoustic guitar players out there. Often on acoustic guitar, I will double the guitar. And when I do this, I always just use one microphone to double the guitar. Because what we do is we wind up recording the same performance twice. Of course, it's not exactly the same performance because it's going to have slight variations. And then I usually like to pan these out left and right and put the vocal in the center. Because that gives us a nice spot for the vocal to inhabit. And you always want to use your ear when you're recording anything. You want to listen and hear what it sounds like and try moving the mic around to find a great spot. A really great place to start when you're recording acoustic guitar is where the neck and the body meet. I find that that tends to be a nice balanced sound for most instruments, but of course you should use your ears and always experiment. So we're going to start right here. I know in this particular guitar this is a great spot, and we're going to use just one mic. I'm pretty close, for acoustic guitar again, depending on the musical context, you might be closer or further away. For this particular piece of music, which is kind of pop, I tend to my guitar is pretty close, which is probably six inches, sometimes less, sometimes a little bit more. [MUSIC] If you happen to have two mics, you can mic in acoustic guitar and stereo. This is what you call an XY stereo miking technique, where the two microphones are very close to each other, and at a 90 degree angle from each other. And it tends to have a nice sound. It's not very wide, but the phase relationships are always nice and tight. [MUSIC] If you want to go for a little wider sound or a little different sound, you can do what's called a spaced pair. And I'm just going to go ahead and set that up. So when you do a spaced pair, you really want to use your ears, and you want to record a little bit and listen back, and try moving the mic just a little bit. Basically, you are just spacing the mics out a little bit. The mic that's going to be closer to the neck is going to pick up more high frequencies. The mic that is more down on the body is going to tend to pick up more low frequencies. And then if you pan these out, you're going to get like a larger, wider sound from your acoustic guitar. [MUSIC] You want to always try and have each mic in a spaced pair be the same distance from the top of the guitar as possible. This will keep you out of trouble phase wise and it will give you a really nice sound.