Recording electric ascoustic guitar direct and then what?

Hi, There is no "one size fits all" solution for this.. It will mostly depend on your music and your tase. Will it be just voice and guitar? or more instruments? Is it country, pop or a rock ballad? In any case what could be useful can be a compressor, an EQ, an amp sim, a chorus, a delay and a reverb.. You have them all "stock" in Reaper. SimulAnalog has some very nice sounding tools too: HTH!

I'm interested in the responses also. I just recorded my first short acoustic piece as an intro. I used my toneport set to use no-amp and just a little EQ. I added a reverb plug in to the track. It sounds ok.... I was thinking of re-recording it using my mic input as well (I have a UX-1) so I get 2 tracks; One from the direct input as I did originally and a second track from the mic input....

Wow! All the way up the tuners. What kind of tone you get there? I had my SM57 towards the bridge and my CAD mike about the 10th frett(it's really a bassy mike) Bardo

Others have given you great advice.With the Gearbox software you should be able to get some really nice tones and also record a,"Dry" track at the same time so you can add more EQ/Effects and depth to the dry track to enhance if you wish. This is a quick test piece I did with this patch I made for Gearbox, This is using a cheap Ovation copy with old strings recorded ,"Wet" straight into my Toneport GX.The verb can be taken off with a click in GB. The sound is decaying a bit fast as I had a heavy noise gate setting as I was sat near my monitor.I usually record away from the monitor so less gate needed etc.

I recorded one direct a couple of weeks ago just screwing around with a buddy and wow... the raw tone was great fodder for doing anything you want but the finger noise was almost unbearable at first. It took awhile working with the guitarist using the little graphic EQ on the thing to reduce that at the source. The tone, direct box -> mic pre -> Art ProVLA was nice though. Full and clear.

Thanks for all the great ideas! I now feel a *little* more confident and a little less confused to boot! Someday I must try that dry wet technique.. At work.. So can't listen to the examples now, but will later! @ Lawrence: Could you possibly explain what EQ (frequencies) you ended up with to remove the finger noises, as to narrow down my search a little. Thanks again for all of your help folks! -W

Recording an acoustic guitar is a little like voodoo. If the chick falls for you, is it really important you had to burn some of her hair? Nice!

Most ovations I've recorded sound excessivly bright (direct only). The deep bodied one's are a little boomy too. (450 Hz ish?) They probably use thinline pickups. I think. I usually start by notching out frequencies that aren't quite right or necessary, (depends on music style). Then I almost always need to compress the track a bit. Now start adding fx/IR's etc.

You might also look into the BodiLizer plugin: It's a plugin that does something similar to what the Fishman Aura Acoustic Imaging Pedals do.