Been watching a few of your videos this evening. Lovely playing - I'm looking into simple mic setups for guitar and mic recording and your videos have been particularly useful, nice one thank you!

Hey Fabian, I own the same Ribbon mic. I just bought it some weeks ago .I also own a zoom h1 and had great results with it. My question is: would you use the ribbon mic for live performances as well? .for vocal and guitar. I need to do 1 in a living room setting. Many thanks !

Sorry to keep missing the live streams bud, had quite a run of Saturday night gigs recently. Enjoy playing catch up on a Sunday however. The reason I found your channel in the first place way back was your one mic approach and the videos you had released on it already. Now you have ended up being stuck with me 😂 Will be trying the “Louise” from Ear Trumpet Labs in the very near future with a one mic set up. However, I do really like the portable recorders. Have used the H2n from zoom for a while and love the H8 especially with a shotgun mic.

Right on. You touched on this a few times, Fabian, but it's also fun and inspiring to gather around a single mic as a group of musicians. It feels much more natural and intimate than peering at each other through a cage of mic stands across the room. We've also found using headphones really helps with getting the balance right as you mix yourselves live. It's become our de facto way of working acoustically as a trio (guitar, banjo, fiddle, with two people singing), but we've gone as high as 8 singers and 6 instruments in a pedestrian tunel (for a version of of the traditional song "Cruel Mother"). Several of the Cowboy Junkie's early albums were recorded with one mic, I think, most famously The Trinity Sessions. Well-worth checking out. Of course all kinds of old blues/folk/county recordings would have been done with one mic, before albums even existed - Blind Willie Johnson, Skip James, the Carter Family, on and on. That's just about the best music humans have ever made, I reckon, so the method can't be half-bad. If I remember right, the first album Lightnin Hopkins made after he was rediscovered in the '60s was just some college kid holding a mic while Lightnin played on a borrowed guitar in his hotel room. The guy would keep the mic closer to his mouth while he was singing, then bring it down closer to the guitar for solos and instrumental passages. I've found small diaphragm condensers can work in a 1-person, singing and playing, 1-mic setup too. The trick is to put it nice and low and aim the beam of its pickup pattern so it crosses the area in front of the guitar or banjo or what have you on its way to pointing at my mouth. It's not quite as natural or comfortable as working with a large-diaphragm mic - I have to really concentrate on keeping my head still and pointed at the mic. But it's definitely workable and, say, less prone to live feedback because of that tighter pickup pattern.

One Mike is a good concept a little like the 60s seems to be better on cassette Portastudios you can collect the sound of the room sound

Check out the "Samson G Track Pro" it is a USB microphone. It hat has two separate inputs and acts as a interface as well. It also allows you to record in mono or stereo.

Sounds great! You seem to have a great balance between guitar and vocals can be a problem if you have a very loud singer and plays soft or visa versa. Obviously theres lots of old albums done with one mic every one baanced lin the room around one mic, one of my favourites is Chris Whitley Dirt Floor is one stereo mic hanging from the rafters in a barn to help vibrations from the floor

Thanks

HI Fabian, Have you ever tried the NOHYPE AUDIO SRM-1 (Their Stereo Ribbon mic) in a simialar setup for singer/guitarist as in this video. All the best! Thanks

I like my low budget gear, i use my oneplus nord 3 and rode videomic go 2 in my videos, pretty good but still trying get better sound, so many options in rode app

Thanks Fabian .. I like to record XY stereo, guitar and vocal as one unit. I place mics about chin level..It is a natural sound! Loved the beautiful rendition you did of "Nobody's fault but mine" The sound was pure and true (your vocals and guitar)! That ribbon mic is awesome! I would like to betr a stereo version! A good follow up might be a discussion about how to add any compression or effects since the voice and guitar have different compression and EQ needs (perhaps no EQ or Compression). Nylon Strings and Steel strings are not the same of course compression wise. I find the comression setting for nylon strings is closer to voice than steel strings.. I use some slight spot comression to tame the levels just slightly. It in interesting subject and like you, feel my singing and playing are very inter-twined. A very good album recorded with one Stereo ribbon mic is "Dirt Floor" by the late Chris Whitely. Thanks again Fabian! - Bill.. PS, that one mic series is excellent.

Hey Fabian, would be really glad about your opinion as you own at least 2 of my selection!:) I want to buy a mic for guitar, i like as perfect as it possible sound, but I'm not professional, only for home learning use. Maybe later for vids, but later... I have a budget for one Neumann Km 184 or Soyuz 013 or Austian Audio CC8. I know that you prefer Km184 with light difference more, but interesting part about soyuz... Maybe did you try it? The second question is does it make sence to buy only one good mic and later get second for stereo (same) or directly buy a cheaper pair like oktavas 012, but stereo? Just dont wanna doint sell-buy-sell-buy job later ;( Maaaybe, it will be possible to find used CC8 for a pair, but it will be hard to do thanks for any advise! :) Really tend to try out the soyuz, but dont have exp and I physically wont be able to understand how good or bad is it in my room. btw - goal is only one guitar for fingerstyle, no mix at all ^^

I wana know how to set up my recording with a DAW

My problem is not so much the recording but the sync with the video is. Video on that one day?