amazing explanations, thank you so much. I hope to do your classes some time in the future.

Where to start. First - thanks for an excellent tutorial! . Reasonably good strings. Certainly not "brand new out of the package." That will create an incredibly bright, overtone nightmare - unless that's what you're looking for. . Find the "perfect notch" as you did with your saturator. But as the folks at Sound on Sound and many others will tell you, with devices in parallel, you can't tweak one without to some degree making another in the chain sound somewhat worse. One has to select what that tradeoff is. . It's easier to record acoustic guitar in a totally dead space and add "room sound" than to use an actual reverberant space - though the latter is more desirable - but takes a lot of skill. It's easy to create a perfectly dead space with household objects anyone has. The best tip is to think like a producer. If the song is a wistful ballad about losing someone, you have to learn which is more appropriate - a ringing driving, Pete Townshend acoustic part filled with suspended chords and an in-your-face placement- or a darker tone that is more like glue for the song. On this tip - talent and experience are it. There are no substitutes.

Building it right now :)

@@SeedtoStage consider it purchased : )

for the recording part i used the h5 as the input device. I could have went through the trouble of aggregating them but i have too many aggregate devices as it is haha

If you plug in a usb cable then turn it on, it will ask you if you want it to run in audio interface mode.

@@SeedtoStage oh yeah. I just realized that. this video was very helpful. thank you.