Lend me your ears for a minute, please.....

[tbman]

How does the quality of this recording sound? I used 1 mic, a Rodes NT5, recorded in mono. I used no effects or noise reduction. I placed the mic about 8 inches from the soundhole.

http://boomp3.com/m/5fa77d14788f

Thanks in advance.

Guitar used:Larrivee OM-05
Strings - 2 day old Earthtone PB lights
Song - something I made up 10 seconds before recording.

[Mr_LV19E]

It sounded very clean to me. Nice playing.

[jeremy3220]

The audio quality was good, I only have two things to comment on. The bass was a little boomy (that's the hardest part about recording acoustic fingerstyle guitar) and the dynamic range was a little wild. At one point I could barely hear it and another the bass is craping out in my speakers. It's still a quality home recording though.

[tbman]

Thanks guys. I asked around on other forums and everyone said it was too boomy also. I'll move it back and point at the 12th fret next test. Thanks again!

[whiskeyjack]

I really like it.  The dynamics aren't as polished as they might be in a recording studio and I didn't mind the low end at all or the variation in volume.  It added character to the piece: feeling.  Your articulation is almost perfect. 

It's tough to get things completely silent at the beginning and the end in a home recording environment.  There's always some strap squeak, string rub, body bump, ambient noise or mouse fart that gets picked up by those sensitive mics!  If you added just a touch of room reverb without colouring the tone, it 'might' be made better.  But it did sound good.

Which model work station did you use? 

[flatlander]

I'm no sound geru and I can't even listen to song from here at work (site blocked) but based on the comments I'll say this.
Quite a while back I bought a high quality tube (or valve since it's british)) single channel compresser. You of course can set it where you want for gain and compression. It sounds very natural and pehaps only adds a little warmth. You can still have your dynamics.
Pick up quieter sounds a little better, if you want, and prevent booming. That allows you also to put mic where you want for best sound not worrying about level. If your not completely bent on using one mic (which I do respect) what I've done for a long time is put 1 at angle into sound hole and one at 12th fret or so. You can then mix them to taste or only use one if you want. If you use both and pan them out, it adds a little glimmer. In fact you do want to pan them out or they can phase each other out some. I only have 1 compresser as it was rather expensive so  the "natural" phase change the tubes in compresser add, is in play as well, but to me it sounds great. The SLIGHTEST delay and phase aspect and sound differnce because of mic placement, when spead out left and right, gives a really fully and slightly glimmering sound. It sounds like you're going for that 1 mic straight approach which is cool, but the way I describes is very natural sounding with no real effects and I consider cheating juuusssttt a little bit.