Hi All

Update aas promised....

Had a session in the studio last night, with brand new set of D'Addario's on my beloved Garrison Geeetarr, threw some blamkets over the wardrobe doors and the window to absorb reflections, and set up for 24 bit recording.

As suggested, tried various Mike positions, and stereo micing.

The arrangement I liked best was:

1st mic 'over the shoulder'
2nd mic around 12th fret, but angled toward the nut.
Both mics with low cut switched in.

The difference in the sound was absolutely awesome - much brighter, far less boom, pretty well exactly as i wanted it to sound instead of sounding like a £25 guitart with strings that had been on for 10 years!

Only slight problem is that the gains on both mics were wound fairly well up - not quite into the region where significant noise was being produced, but not far off it....

Being totally new to recording, found out that I'm not quite used to recording just a pure guitar track, then overlaying vocals as a second take - was having to spend much more time thinking about what I was playing than when I just play and sing together.

So, put a pop filter on 1 mic, and quickly threw down a combined vocals & guitar track. Despite the usual factor of not being quite used to my own voice yet, it didn't sound toooo bad. Idea is to use that as a 'ghost' track to record subsequent separate tracks for rhythm guitar, vocals and lead guitar (or possibly mando), the 'ghost then being left out of the final mix.....

Really got the bug now - can't wait to get back in there and have another session.

So thanks again to you all for all your help. It's been superb and probably saved me several dozens of hours of frustration!

Rgds

Old Folkie