I had a friend stop by this weekend and he brought his early 60's 000-18 with him. I had to give it a go for a quick recording. It's just such a wonderfully natural instrument. Not too much top, not too much low end. Earthy.
I stuck the thing in front of a mic and knocked out two tracks without ever getting up from my seat. I didn't re-adjust the mic and didn't touch the mic pre or software. The recording has no eq and no compression. There
is a Lexicon room reverb on the lead-ish track and I bumped levels 8dB on the way out but other than that bone dry. I do realize there's a little build up at 250 but for sake of the track I left it.
What I'd give for a git that records so effortlessly.
https://soundcloud.com/joseph-hanna/martin-000-18