Recording a Resonator

McSwaggerty

I will soon be going into a studio to record some bottleneck on a wooden bodied resonator.
Wondering if anyone has any advice or tips for best results , especially about which mic to use ( dynamic or condenser etc ) and best mic placement.....etc etc
Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks. 

octatonic

I play a bit of dobro.
I record them with small condenser microphones most of the time.

Simple stuff:

Favourites are Neumann KM84, KM184 or Josephson C42's, but most SDC's will work.
Ribbons can be interesting too.
I don't mess about with multi-microphone configurations, a single mic pointed at the cone from the treble neck side (for a square neck, played seated).

Less simple stuff:

I track with a tube mic preamp (Groove Tubes ViPre) with a bit of EQ (Manley Massive Passive, or Empirical Labs LilFreq, SSL 611).
I tend to not record with compression, or if I do something quite transparent (in my case a Crane Song STC-8).
I almost always record a direct signal as well.
Dobro sounds great when you blend the acoustic signal with an amount of an amped up signal too.

KDS

You’ll get great advice at Michael Messers website