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Michal Seta wrote:

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> Hmm...  My classical guitar teacher and a couple of audio engineers I

> had pleasure working with thought that placing mics near the neck was

> providing a bit of brightness to the sound and balanced well the

> body's tone.  In those days I spent entire days practicing to minimize

> the fret/string noise.  Today I think that such noises add to the

> charm of the music but i guess this is context and style dependent

> (but I am also fond of music made exclusively of such "unwanted"

> noises so I may not be the right reference in this context).

chop, chop, says the master of vegetable noises :)
i'm with michal here - don't try to make it too clean. and don't deny

yourself the pleasure of pointing a second mike at the neck - lovely

tones to be found there.

forget the notch filter. the high-pitched squeaks are quite broadband.

if you're just two squeaks short of that multi-million-dollar hit

single, you can try to tackle them with an automated low-pass filter

which cuts in only when necessary (don't hack into the attack of the

following notes).
another very neat trick with guitars is to take two very small omni

capsules (like the sennheiser mke1 or 2), wrap them in a piece of felt

and tape them to the lower part of the guitar body, one at the height of

the bridge and one between sound hole and neck. very nice stereo effect

- you must mix them hard to the left and right, otherwise you'll get

horrible comb filters. if you want to combine those with a fuller sound,

use a large diaphragm pointing in roughly to the sound hole, and add the

small capsules with a strong high-pass for just some "stereo glitz".

will get you a followup job with the guitarist for sure :)
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