How to Get a Good Acoustic Guitar Sound with Ableton Live

[@SeedtoStage]

Its impossible to cover all the endless ways to increase the quality of acoustic guitar recordings: preamps, better mics, good miking techniques, new strings, a tuner (lol) different types of acoustic guitars, the list goes on and on. What are some of your tips for better acoustic recordings?

[@julio_saito]

amazing explanations, thank you so much. I hope to do your classes some time in the future.

[@Allan-et5ig]

Where to start. First - thanks for an excellent tutorial! . Reasonably good strings. Certainly not "brand new out of the package." That will create an incredibly bright, overtone nightmare - unless that's what you're looking for. . Find the "perfect notch" as you did with your saturator. But as the folks at Sound on Sound and many others will tell you, with devices in parallel, you can't tweak one without to some degree making another in the chain sound somewhat worse. One has to select what that tradeoff is. . It's easier to record acoustic guitar in a totally dead space and add "room sound" than to use an actual reverberant space - though the latter is more desirable - but takes a lot of skill. It's easy to create a perfectly dead space with household objects anyone has. The best tip is to think like a producer. If the song is a wistful ballad about losing someone, you have to learn which is more appropriate - a ringing driving, Pete Townshend acoustic part filled with suspended chords and an in-your-face placement- or a darker tone that is more like glue for the song. On this tip - talent and experience are it. There are no substitutes.

[@Adamtfrank]

Dude yes! The synchronicity is amazing I'm tracking acoustic as we speak. Really am grateful for your time

[@madastrota]

Man, this hits all my guitar-geek-recording-nerd nerves right in the feels. Funny thing is, I damn near killed myself recording an acoustic guitar based album in 2019, completely self-produced (Pro Tools), and before it was even done I decided to totally switch gears and pursue electronic music. And that led me here, into the realm of Ableton Live. Anthony, actually, was the catalyst to me making the leap after discovering his band, Papadosio, at a club show in town. I've been listening to his music, watching his tutorials, subscribing to his course, and soaking all of this in ever since. And now I've come full circle watching a video about recording acoustic guitars into my electronic genie.

[@SeedtoStage]

00:00 - Intro 2:30 - Different Recording Takes 3:40 - Analyzing Different Takes 7:40 - The Original Idea I Sang into Ableton 8:30 - Problem Solving with EQ 13:00 - Tonal EQ on the Group 14:10 - Glue Compressor For the Group 17:20 - Overdrive on Acoustic Guitar!? 21:43 - Adding Reverb 25:07 - Processing Leads

[@jozard]

fantastic video. I imagined I'll see a bunch of effect chains but instead I learned a lot about mic'ing and recording, which i didn't know enough about. thank you.

[@FlowProdOfficial]

that overdrive tip is fantastic. Thank you

[@HIFI1965]

You have the most contagious chuckle on the inter webs ! Also fresh strings makes a big difference.

[@LuisMoreno-rn4uw]

dude, i love your teaching style, you are a truly inspiration and im realy glad to find your tutorials, i hope that soon i can afford your lessons, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, keep rocking mate!

[@ryanh7389]

You rule. Papadisio rules. Thanks for sharing your wizardry with us all man

[@kaileratoold]

you make the best videos bout ableton, man you just litereally make me better musician, I appreciate you

[@micahbergen3791]

Great content 👍 I have revisitted this video multiple times as I get into mixing acoustic guitar (and get lost). Thought this time I'd say I appreciate what you do. Keep it up!

[@mistersprinlesdude00]

Mondo appreciation! Very comprehensive. 1000 Thanks to you

[@1AngeloElian]

Wowww bro that overdrive trick just made my guitar sound craaaaaaazy good

[@lindythinks]

tried my first acoustic recording with your tutorial! sounded pretty solid from my iphone recording lol, thanks for the tips.

[@OldTaima]

You are amazing man! I love the detail in the things you explain.

[@wallacenock7423]

Thanks so useful and wonderful tips. Im such a beginner and know so little, but everyday i learn something more

[@chasemanhart]

This tutorial is great! It is direct and helps solve a specific issue on specific instrument. Thank you!

[@mickimarbhmusic]

Great stuff gonna try this right away with my acoustic track 🙌

[@tomasvila9007]

AMAZING LESSON MAN!!! Regards from Argentina!

[@StevenWilsonBeales]

This is such a brilliant session. many thanks for putting this one together.

[@serhiipovisenko]

dude, I like your attitude to cover the topic broader

[@theohmeyegods]

4th time watching this through. Thanks for this.

[@watkins7086]

This video was really helpful!

[@pauldepaulis9281]

Thanks bud, picked up some great pointers!

[@petef.4688]

dude, your left stero track on your xy mic is actually recording a mix of the SM and your XYs. Its in your I/O settings

[@soccerman127]

Thank you for this. Know I can actually know what I'm doing when I EQ my acoustic

[@philippeduprez2593]

Always the best tricks ever ! Bravo à toi.

[@Yonoize94]

Great tutorial, ill keep coming to learn.

[@picas256]

Love your teachings! Thanks for sharing.

[@caglarongan]

Very well presented video ! Thank you for this

[@WhiteWolfBlues]

Dude you're amazing thanks for the videos, I'll be using it on my stream for sure

[@RodGozzett]

Great video, great teacher. thank you buddy!

[@anemandaane5183]

Awesome packed with insight thanks

[@ECOGtheMC]

Hey, really love your videos and your teaching style! It would be awesome if you could cover how to midi map properly. My problem with this is I would love to have control over third party plugins on my push and have them saved so as soon I open the synth I could control it via push. I just don't find the right way to do it and somehow this topic isn't really much spoken about whereas it would be a much more hands on experience with Ableton if "static" midi mapping would be a thing with any controller. Take care and keep up your great videos and greetings from Germany!

[@mimisaiko]

Nice song!

[@JohnyG14]

"And then finally we can move on to the return effects that are really gonna send this sound..." I see what ya did there... nice.😉

[@honderkusjes]

thx very clear and well explained

[@noahproudfootmusic]

Love the 1k bump trick :)

[@MalachiMarvin]

Thank you for all the good information on the guitar. Very useful. The overdrive trick is going into my bag of tricks. I do have to say, though, that drum rack is awful and doesn't go with the guitar at all. Really distracting.

[@thelostboymusic]

Thank you

[@chickenbath]

The two courses you put out are amazing! Are you planning on putting out a sound design course too? I'd buy that in a second!

[@SeedtoStage]

Building it right now :)

[@chickenbath]

@@SeedtoStage consider it purchased : )

[@dgnine4852]

You and Mr.Bill colab would be crazy !

[@rauri7705]

great vid , thanks!

[@Carisneat123]

When his version of far away is what I thought was up close. 😵‍💫

[@bvrbvs]

Really interested in the mixing course but how to know if it's the right level? I consider myself intermediate so need to make sure it fits where I am at (PS long time follower thx for all the great video)

[@two_legit1832]

I'm 39 years old and have been playing guitar for 15 years and have just now decided I want to record my original material. However, being technologically illiterate I'm having issues. I'm recording through the Scarlet 2i2 via Ableton. I'm recording my Martin D-15M through the Scarlet mic that came with the 2i2. When I play back the arrangement I recorded I can barely hear it even with the volume all the way up on the 2i2. I've already configured my audio Preferences to ASIO. It's driving me nuts and I can't figure out why. Any suggestions??

[@guywhoplaysbass]

when I direct into my scarlett focusrite solo ableton is extremely distorted and muffled even though it is not peaking. is there any workaround for this?

[@jimmeymcgee2840]

Did glue compressor come with Ableton software?

[@ariefantono836]

omg thanks a bunch man.

[@jeraldabanid7901]

Is it okay to pan all the way left and right I’m using 2 different mics

[@michaelduffproductions8976]

Any idea why my glue compressor compresses MORE when i lower the ratio and LESS when I raise it? It baffles me. Maybe has something to do with the changing knee?

[@bharathj63]

How are you interfacing the zoom and your sm7b? Is the zoom the only audio interface or are you using aggregate device with another interface.

[@SeedtoStage]

for the recording part i used the h5 as the input device. I could have went through the trouble of aggregating them but i have too many aggregate devices as it is haha

[@madaboutmusic7089]

how did you connect the h5 to Ableton live?

[@SeedtoStage]

If you plug in a usb cable then turn it on, it will ask you if you want it to run in audio interface mode.

[@madaboutmusic7089]

@@SeedtoStage oh yeah. I just realized that. this video was very helpful. thank you.

[@mekullag]

Anyone else getting Pachelbel Canon in D Major vibes from that track? :D

[@businessbusiness9407]

"size" isn't room size.

[@aidoway]

you sound like a young jordan peterson

[@serhiipovisenko]

it's not pretty long at all maaateeee!

[@hsepo]

Nice guitars but drum loop ruins everything..

[@chrisw1462]

I don't know what you hear, but on this end the drums just sound like someone was thumping a microphone with their finger. No snare, no real kick.. nuthin.