Let's say someone was recording (both sound & vision) themselves playing their acoustic and singing (at the same time).
Vocal mic is a Rode NT1A. Does the job nicely.
Acoustic has a blended piezo & internal mic/pickup.
Both are plugged into the DAW via a 2input interface.
The trouble is that the vocal mic also picks up some of the natural sound of the acoustic, such that any DAW processing of the vocal track is also applied to that element of the guitar sound which is captured on the vocal track.
Any tips for minimising that overspill of guitar into vocals?
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But I'm not so good at (essentially) miming for the camera. I will admit that not all my takes are equally perfect. so either getting two perfect - or equally imperfect - versions to stitch together could take me quite a while ...
I was wondering whether some sort of physical sound barrier would work. Probably something like a small perspex sheet fixed underneath the mic, which is the direction from which most of the acoustic sound must be coming?
A very small version of the isolation booths that drummers sometimes sit in.
That said, you could send the guitar track and the vocal track to a bus, flip the phase on the guitar track and filter out all the mids and bass, so it's just the percussive highs. Bring in the guitar track slowly to see whether it attenuates the more distracting bits. (This is only theoretical on my part, as I'm in the other room from my proper computer so I can't try it.)
And, of course, the guitar track is running at the same time as the vocal track, so the spillover will be masked a lot of the time - the question is whether, if you just have guitar and vocal, you actually want the two to be in different sound-spaces. We're actually used to bleed in the vocal track in a lot of, especially older, recordings.
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You’re presenting both together in a video format though so I wouldn’t worry too much. Try to eliminate as much as you can with mic positioning and then try to make it sound good in the DAW. Make sure there are no phase issues etc.
I assume you already know about this stuff -
Microphone polar patterns explained: Bi-directional (yourfreesounds.com)
- as regards the directionality of cardioid mics.
And I'm not sure it will help anyway. Multi tracks as suggested above will work. Just be prepared to be Kurt rather than Cliff!!
(Apologies to Danny1969 above. I just gave you a LOL whilst trying to type in a smiley. My bad. Blame it on the Moretti !)