Recording Guitars....., Tips and Tricks......and a Question Options

[slowintrepid]

Hows it going, I had a couple questions about recording guitars on my Mac. Basically my I obviously wanna get the best sound I can from my setup so here it is:

1 Bright Sounding Acoustic Gutiar w/ built in fishman pre amp
2.Epiphone SG electric guitar
3. Marshall MG-80 solid state guitar amp

ok so I have my electric going into my amp then the line out of my am into the built in sound card of my PowerMac G5 and it doesn't sound very good.

However I have my acoustic guitar going straight into my computer via the built in pre amp and that sounds just like I was playing it live.

so 1. I wanna know how can I get out the clangy jangley sound from my acoustic (new strings lower gauge) and how can I get my electric to sound better and should I use amp distortion (mines so so) or should I use something like Amplitube

also I feel that this is a fairly elusive subject for s

[toekneenose]

Putting two mics in close proximity on anything is a recipe for disaster. The ugly 'phase cancellation' monster rears its ugly head! Just ask anyone who has tried to mix several mics on a drum set. It can be done, but it takes a skilled, experienced and knowledgable engineer to do so.

You may kid yourself and your ears, but the sound is no better.

Best advice: get a good mic and follow the proceedures outlined in an earlier post on this thread.

Good luck.