Volume too low when recording acoustic guitar

[thecontrolcentre]

it was something to do with one of the knobs ...

[Meffy]

Btw it was something to do with one of the knobs on my audiobox. Very rookie error on my part lol. Thanks again.

Glad you got it sorted. Don't feel bad — I've been working with music and electronics more than half a century and still make noob mistakes. "Laugh and proceed" isn't too bad a philosophy.

[Aloysius]

a man who never made a mistake, never made anything

[Readaz]

Avoiding a quiet recording of acoustic guitar can be difficult. As others have said, it can be multiple steps in the chain.

First off all check the performance, make sure the guitar is at a consistent distance as performers can tend to move around and away from the microphone throughout a part. Sometimes they will pick harder in practice and when you hit record they soften up too.

And of course consider raising preamp gain, moving the microphone closer (try pointing towards the 12th fret as the sound hole it's self will be very boomy and not a great place to close mic). Tracking through a hardware comp can do wonders but if you are fairly new to the process I would avoid this for some time.

[Ksamphos]

I found recording an acoustic guitar with a nice tone quite difficult, It always sounds blurry and opaque, If louder a bit distant, without the incisive and clear touch of professional recordings,

So, any tip you have about recording it i would appreciate much, cause a well recorded acoustic guitar is beautiful as few things

[kvotchin]

You need decent playing, a nice guitar with good strings snd setup, a quality mic (or multiple), correct mic placement, room treatment (ideally), a decent preamp (or multiple) . . . etc.

Anyway, you could usually do worse than to hit up Sound on Sound, like here: https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques ... tic-guitar