Recording Guitars....., Tips and Tricks......and a Question Options

[slowintrepid]

Hows it going, I had a couple questions about recording guitars on my Mac. Basically my I obviously wanna get the best sound I can from my setup so here it is:

1 Bright Sounding Acoustic Gutiar w/ built in fishman pre amp
2.Epiphone SG electric guitar
3. Marshall MG-80 solid state guitar amp

ok so I have my electric going into my amp then the line out of my am into the built in sound card of my PowerMac G5 and it doesn't sound very good.

However I have my acoustic guitar going straight into my computer via the built in pre amp and that sounds just like I was playing it live.

so 1. I wanna know how can I get out the clangy jangley sound from my acoustic (new strings lower gauge) and how can I get my electric to sound better and should I use amp distortion (mines so so) or should I use something like Amplitube

also I feel that this is a fairly elusive subject for s

[pdgood]

Ditto the comment that a mic'd amp will always sound better than an emulator (with current technology). I would add that you probably want to mic the acoustic as well. A good friend of mine is one of the top acoustic players here in Nashville and his technique is to put a mic around where the neck meets the body (but not over the sound hole). Turn it in facing towards the guitar, but not straight in, use a slightly up angle so that you can position it closer to the treble strings aimed more at the bass strings. That's all you need, but sometimes engineers will use a second mic.