BTW, this advice also generalizes to when you want to mike your guitar amp at a gig. You don’t want to point the microphone at the floor in front of the amp, or at a bunch of plywood between the two speakers of your cabinet etc.etc.
Most vaguely competent people are capable of figuring this out. But they might not know that to mic an acoustic guitar you want to point the mic at where neck meets the body, or sometimes at the large flat part of the body, not at the sound hole / right hand. If I’m going to not downvote a post on mic advice, I want the latter category of advice, not the former.
BTW, this advice also generalizes to when you want to mike your guitar amp at a gig. You don’t want to point the microphone at the floor in front of the amp, or at a bunch of plywood between the two speakers of your cabinet etc.etc.
Most vaguely competent people are capable of figuring this out. But they might not know that to mic an acoustic guitar you want to point the mic at where neck meets the body, or sometimes at the large flat part of the body, not at the sound hole / right hand. If I’m going to not downvote a post on mic advice, I want the latter category of advice, not the former.