My most indispensable plug-in for Recording Acoustic Guitar

[Doug Young]

Originally Posted by rick-slo

You can play around post recording with some millisecond range channel delay (as I have done now and then) by ear.

That's basically what this plugin does - substituting an algorithm for your ear - tho it's goal is to maximize correlation. You can also override it, and use it as a sample delay with control down to the sample level.

Wild correlation swings often happen with spaced pairs, and that can be fine. If a recording is consistently always in the negative correlation area, I think that's more problematic, and even more so if mixed with additional sources, mic, pickup, etc. In the end, if it sounds good, it's good, of course.

[dcn]

Not to steal Ken's thunder here, but we did record a song today and Auto-Align was involved As the person in front of the mic, I was very happy with the result, even with the stray clams in my performance.

This is an original tune of mine called "Classical Western" - tuning is CGDGBbC if anyone is interested in trying it out. Guitar is a superb Halland DC-H Ebony / Moon Spruce, 25.4 - 26 fan-fret.

Thanks again Ken for the hospitality!

[Bowie]

A simple high-pass filter. That and reverb/delay are usually the only plug-ins I use on acoustic. Everything else, I prefer to get from hardware.

[rick-slo]

On a good recording a small amount of reverb (usually convolution type) is the thing (often only thing) I use consistently. If some problem frequencies a equalization plugin may be explored.