How To Record Acoustic Guitar with the KU5A

The KU5A is ideally equipped to capture the sound of your acoustic guitar. With its supercardioid polar pattern, near-field design, balanced low-end, and extended top-end, the KU5A excels at capturing the true essence of your instrument while limiting room reflections. A bump in response at 5kHz and 10kHz delivers enough bite and focus to make the KU5A the only mic necessary to record your bass amp, eliminating the need to blend additional mics for top-end balance.

The KU5A delivers balanced sound 4 to 16 inches from the source and allows for better performance in close-up recording applications than one would achieve with more traditional ribbon mics due to their large amount of proximity effect.

CLOSE MIKING

Try positioning the KU5A roughly 4 to 16 inches from the guitar, facing the 12th fret or where the neck of the acoustic guitar meets the body. Within that range, you can move the KU5A closer to accentuate the guitar’s low-end or pull it away to lessen that effect. Angling the mic away from the guitar’s sound hole can also lessen excessive low-end.

An acoustic guitar’s comprehensive sound comes from both the sound hole and the strings, so pulling back the KU5A from the instrument allows it to blend together the two sounds.

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