Acoustic Guitar recording and processing: Fishman Aura

[stueym]

As some of you know I have a definite thing for Ovation/Adamas guitars. Despite this I bought earlier this year my first Martin. That said while it is a traditional OMC with spruce and rosewood and “42â€

[jb]

The Martin sounds fantastic. The other two sound like they were recorded from too far away without enough gain on the mic, not nearly as full and rich.

[stueym]

The Martin sounds fantastic. The other two sound like they were recorded from too far away without enough gain on the mic, not nearly as full and rich.

Thanks JB. May also be a function of the amount of other stuff going on in those other songs versus a pure and clear picked guitar sound. I also found that when I tried to strum the OMC with the same settings that it boomed like crazy, just like you get for real if you tried to record a mic'd acoustic if you dont adjust position, compression and EQ.

The Aura Pedal actually allows you to have way more images (50) that you can cycle through whereas the built-in pre-amp has only 8 but of course they are perfected to be for the Martin and are built-in to the guitar for convenience. The pedal however allows you to have seperate gain, compression settings, EQ and reverb settings for each of the 50 image slots which allows you to have seperate patches for strum/pick styles just to allow for that issue.

Also I sense I may need to do this properly and do a blind test with everyone to make sure I dont get any Ovation plastic guitar prejudice happening.

[roymond]

Also I sense I may need to do this properly and do a blind test with everyone to make sure I dont get any Ovation plastic guitar prejudice happening.

That's easy. No one will mess with Mr Sparkles.