Everybody keeps saying that you HAVE to use a microphone, that you CAN'T use the pickup, but I actually like the direct sound. I had recorded songs with my acoustic 12 string, directly on my lap-top with Audacity, more than 10 years ago. Without a direct box. It sounded and still sounds very good. I like this clean, precise, crystal-clear sound, even if it's a bit cold and metallic. It sounds 80's, new wave, and I like it. But I think it's even better using the pickup AND a mic. Also, I think that the direct sound sounds better in a band situation, with other instruments, than if you play alone.
On stage, for a live performance, using a pickup is the way to go. For recording, I do prefer a mic, unless I only record some ideas or doing pre-prod. However, you seem to know the difference in sound between both ways, and you like the pickup for your song. At this point, it's an artistic choice, and there's nothing wrong with that :-) Thanks for sharing, my friend!
very cool to see how you can use plugins on a di acoustic track. or any kinda stale acoustic recording i suppose. creative stuff! sounds surprisingly good in this case.
as usual great video Chris!... in this case you leave the bipolarity; if you dont want that you simply move one of the files to match with the other manually? Thanks for your advice!
Sorry if this is in the wrong place but: love to see one of your great vids on setting up a parallel main mix bus in Cubase. Would you do this like a comp drums bus? Send every group to it? This is to add to your main mix, but compressed. Cheers, PK
Parallel Compression on the MIX BUS is not something I always do but it is a cool technique depending on the song I mix...Yes, I can do a vid on this that will answer your questions :-) I'll add this to my list! Thanks!
My question that no one has been able to positively answer yet is: does a DI box cut down on feedback if you play live through it, and out to your PA system, please? I get feedback problems when playing at medium venue high volume. I have an undersaddle pickup, but no built-in EQ on my Martin accoustic.
Well, very great sound BUT how you layered guitar for example using it with 3 tracks? I mean 2x mic and the line. I am recording every time in this way and I am wondering how to pannnig this! Also could you tell me it is a big diffrence beetwen recording guitar via DI or cable from git to interface directly? sorry for my english!Regards!
If you use the acoustic for rhythm you may want to stay out of center for lead & vocals - One way you could to is pan the 2 mics hard left and right and put them through different processes (e.g. 2 reamps or different mic simulations), this will give you a wider sound - I think Chris did a video where he worked with 2 takes on 2 different guitars. The other thing you must do is check the phase either visually or use a plugin (waves inPhase is very handy) otherwise you will loose the energy. I would only use the DI to compliment say to get some grit, but I would usually throw it away. One problem with acoustic pickup is that the "plop" a lot so you may want to tame lower frequency transients.
Actually, when recording 2 separate guitar takes like I did on the video you're referring too (th-cam.com/video/rGMzTU4CyLA/w-d-xo.html) you don't need to check for phase or polarity problems. You only need to check for the phase when you have more than one mic recording the same source.
Actually, not really. Having them at equal volume will not give you a more honest result, I don't mix this way. The goal here is to use the Line recording to complement the Mic recording and add space to the general guitar sound. For best results, finding the correct balance is the key to a good mix and this is what I show in this video. You don't need to add a lot of the Live recording to make this technique work, it's all about balance :-)
Toujours de bon conseil... excellent... try to duplicate 2 track with -12 and +12 tune treatment. Put it (it depends) -12 db. It gives flatness. Thx 👍👍👍👍
Nice voice -why didn't you use a small partition wall to keep some of the guitar sound from the voice mic? Often eye contact is enough to get 2 musicians synced together. It's kind of strange that they are side by side and not facing each other, makes putting them into the same room a little superfluous? Definitely your result is nicee. Funny, to me the DI acoustic always sounds "fuzzy", is that due to bad preamps in the guitar?Also wondering if the transients from a DI would be useful - maybe kill the sustain with Cubase multiband envelope and then just get the attack. Need to test that myself.
It's the visual setup we chose for the video like if they were performing in front of an audience. Considering the video aspect, a partition wall was not an option...
I don't overthink things when it comes to DIs... Once my goal is reached, (which it did quickly) I move on... I use the DI signal just to enlarge the sound not for it to be upfront :-)
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Everybody keeps saying that you HAVE to use a microphone, that you CAN'T use the pickup, but I actually like the direct sound. I had recorded songs with my acoustic 12 string, directly on my lap-top with Audacity, more than 10 years ago. Without a direct box. It sounded and still sounds very good.
I like this clean, precise, crystal-clear sound, even if it's a bit cold and metallic. It sounds 80's, new wave, and I like it.
But I think it's even better using the pickup AND a mic.
Also, I think that the direct sound sounds better in a band situation, with other instruments, than if you play alone.
On stage, for a live performance, using a pickup is the way to go. For recording, I do prefer a mic, unless I only record some ideas or doing pre-prod.
However, you seem to know the difference in sound between both ways, and you like the pickup for your song. At this point, it's an artistic choice, and there's nothing wrong with that :-)
Thanks for sharing, my friend!
@@mixdownonline Exactly! Thanks.
Great video. The content you share is extremely useful and easily put to use in my own productions. Keep up the good work.
Very happy you like the vids! Thanks for watching!
They’ve used this box on Kurt’s guitar during the MTV unplugged show as well.
very cool to see how you can use plugins on a di acoustic track. or any kinda stale acoustic recording i suppose. creative stuff! sounds surprisingly good in this case.
Thanks :-)
I like the song
can you do a tutorial on how you set-up your recording
as usual great video Chris!... in this case you leave the bipolarity; if you dont want that you simply move one of the files to match with the other manually? Thanks for your advice!
Yes, I did explain in the video why I didn't do so but you could
Sorry if this is in the wrong place but: love to see one of your great vids on setting up a parallel main mix bus in Cubase. Would you do this like a comp drums bus? Send every group to it? This is to add to your main mix, but compressed. Cheers, PK
Parallel Compression on the MIX BUS is not something I always do but it is a cool technique depending on the song I mix...Yes, I can do a vid on this that will answer your questions :-) I'll add this to my list! Thanks!
Thanks Chris! More like something I'd like to do for rough mixes at the moment but I'd like to try it.
6:02 6:23 6:29 6:58 7:09 7:52 7:53 8:02 8:06 8:11 8:45 and thats not even half of the video xD
Sorry Dude nice video, really appreciate your information :)
Why all the time location in your comment?
@@mixdownonline m'okay
My question that no one has been able to positively answer yet is: does a DI box cut down on feedback if you play live through it, and out to your PA system, please? I get feedback problems when playing at medium venue high volume. I have an undersaddle pickup, but no built-in EQ on my Martin accoustic.
Well, very great sound BUT how you layered guitar for example using it with 3 tracks? I mean 2x mic and the line. I am recording every time in this way and I am wondering how to pannnig this!
Also could you tell me it is a big diffrence beetwen recording guitar via DI or cable from git to interface directly?
sorry for my english!Regards!
If you use the acoustic for rhythm you may want to stay out of center for lead & vocals - One way you could to is pan the 2 mics hard left and right and put them through different processes (e.g. 2 reamps or different mic simulations), this will give you a wider sound - I think Chris did a video where he worked with 2 takes on 2 different guitars. The other thing you must do is check the phase either visually or use a plugin (waves inPhase is very handy) otherwise you will loose the energy. I would only use the DI to compliment say to get some grit, but I would usually throw it away. One problem with acoustic pickup is that the "plop" a lot so you may want to tame lower frequency transients.
Actually, when recording 2 separate guitar takes like I did on the video you're referring too (th-cam.com/video/rGMzTU4CyLA/w-d-xo.html) you don't need to check for phase or polarity problems. You only need to check for the phase when you have more than one mic recording the same source.
Awesome video! If you kept both versions of acoustic at the same volume you can get a more honest result.
Actually, not really. Having them at equal volume will not give you a more honest result, I don't mix this way. The goal here is to use the Line recording to complement the Mic recording and add space to the general guitar sound. For best results, finding the correct balance is the key to a good mix and this is what I show in this video. You don't need to add a lot of the Live recording to make this technique work, it's all about balance :-)
Toujours de bon conseil... excellent... try to duplicate 2 track with -12 and +12 tune treatment. Put it (it depends) -12 db. It gives flatness. Thx 👍👍👍👍
Merci! Je sais que dupliquer une piste peux fonctionner de cette façon, but I always get better results when getting it right at the source.
Nice voice -why didn't you use a small partition wall to keep some of the guitar sound from the voice mic? Often eye contact is enough to get 2 musicians synced together. It's kind of strange that they are side by side and not facing each other, makes putting them into the same room a little superfluous?
Definitely your result is nicee.
Funny, to me the DI acoustic always sounds "fuzzy", is that due to bad preamps in the guitar?Also wondering if the transients from a DI would be useful - maybe kill the sustain with Cubase multiband envelope and then just get the attack. Need to test that myself.
It's the visual setup we chose for the video like if they were performing in front of an audience. Considering the video aspect, a partition wall was not an option...
I don't overthink things when it comes to DIs... Once my goal is reached, (which it did quickly) I move on... I use the DI signal just to enlarge the sound not for it to be upfront :-)
Whats the diff with a di and going strait to the interface?
There's no difference if you're using the instrument Input (HiZ) of your interface.
Is it active or passive di box that you are using?
That one is an active!
john snow playing guitar🤣
Lol... True!