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Townsend Labs Sphere L22 Precision Microphone System Guide Recording Acoustic Guitar
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A spaced-pair can produce excellent results but like any non-coincident technique, sound arrives at
the mics at different times. This can result in comb filtering and mono incompatibility.
Figure 7-7 Recording acoustic guitar in stereo using spaced pair technique
To minimize phase issues, set the distance between mics to at least three times the distance from each
mic to the guitar.
TIP: To verify that phase issues have not become a problem, sum the left and right channels to
mono and listen for comb filtering or other artifacts.
This just scratches the surface of how to best record acoustic guitar with a Sphere mic. For more a
more in depth look at this topic, see the following excellent Sound On Sound magazine article:
Recording Acoustic Guitar - Techniques From The World’s Top Engineers & Producers
See Chapter 8: Stereo Recording to learn more about single and multiple mic stereo setups.