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MICROPHONE POSITIONS

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MICROPHONE POSITIONS

where to place a mic around an acoustic guitar and how each spot sounds — after Shure’s guides

Built as a memo rather than a table: the thing worth hanging it up for reads across the room, with the full reference in smaller type below it.

Three sizes in one archive — from a sheet on the fridge to a poster on the wall.

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Formats
A4 · A3 · A2
What you get
Print-ready PDFs, one per size, with every letterform converted to outlines — nothing to install, nothing to shift.
Subject
music · beginners · memo · music room

Placements 1–4 and the clip-on spots follow the acoustic-guitar chart in Shure’s “Microphone Techniques for Recording”, with centimetres converted from its inches; spot 5 follows Shure’s “Home Recording Guide for Beginners”, its 9 in · 20 cm printed as in the source. Guitar and distances share one scale: Martin D-28, body 508 × 397 mm, scale 645 mm.

THE OBVIOUS SPOT IS THE MUDDIEST

The first instinct is to put the mic right at the sound hole — and that exact spot gets the worst words in the whole Shure chart: “very bassy, boomy, muddy”. Balanced sound lives elsewhere: off to the side over the bridge — or at the 12th fret, where Shure tells home recordists to start.

Close to the hole is a choice made for isolation, not for tone, when other instruments play nearby. For both close spots the guide gives the same advice: roll off the bass, and the sound comes back to natural.

On the sheet

  • Placements 1–4 and the clip-on spots follow the acoustic-guitar chart in Shure’s “Microphone Techniques for Recording”, with centimetres converted from its inches; spot 5 follows Shure’s “Home Recording Guide for Beginners”, its 9 in · 20 cm printed as in the source. Guitar and distances share one scale: Martin D-28, body 508 × 397 mm, scale 645 mm.
  • Colour carries meaning, but meaning never rests on colour alone — the sheet reads in black and white.
  • Nothing about how it was made: the sheet carries only what the reader needs.

Printing

  • Three sizes in the archive: A4 — 210×297 mm, A3 — 297×420 mm, A2 — 420×594 mm.
  • All text is converted to outlines. No fonts to install, and nothing shifts on another machine.
  • White background and sparing fills — it prints on a home printer without draining the cartridge.
  • Margins of at least 10 mm: a home printer cannot print to the edge.
  • No stroke thinner than 0.3 mm, so nothing disappears in print.

Why the numbers can be trusted. Every countable number here is computed from data rather than typed in, and the sheet must pass 8 independent checks before it is allowed to build — how many items there are, the order they come in, and the claim in the highlighted box itself. If one fails, there is no file.

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