A brief demonstration of how the same mic sounds on the same acoustic guitar in different positions. 
Gear: Greg Bennett D1 acoustic guitar, Studio Projects B3 multipattern condenser (cardioid only), Focusrite Saffire Pro 14, Pro Tools 11.

Mic Placement Shootout

This is my first remix in a long time - the latest single from Cage the Elephant's album "Melophobia." As usual, thanks to the folks at Indaba Music for providing the stems. Hope ya like it.

Take It Or Leave It (rough remix)

Recorded by Tristan Bailey and Greg Elchert at Capital University, Studio E.

AEA R84 - ACG

Shure SM57 - ACG

DI guitar track reamped through Fender Frontman 212, miked with a Shure KSM44, and enhanced with an AIR chorus plugin.

Gtr. 1 reamp

DI guitar track reamped through Fender Frontman 212, miked with a Shure SM7B, doubled, and panned hard left and hard right.

Gtr. 2 reamp

Chad Loughrige's song "Network," with three reamped guitar tracks. Stem mix by Chad Loughrige. Reamping and mixdown by Greg Elchert.

Network (with reamped guitars)

My submission to the Dangerous Music/Sweetwater/pureMix Mixing Contest.
Song: "Oh Baby," by the Liza Colby Band.
Plugins:
EQ: Waves Q10 (vocals) and Renaissance EQ (everything else)
Compression: Waves Renaissance Compressor and Renaissance Axe; Bomb Factory BF-76
Reverb: Waves IR-L (global) and SuperTap (for spring reverb on guitars)
Modulation: Native Instruments Guitar Rig 5 running the "Rotator" plugin (Leslie sim)

Vocals and drums are parallel compressed. I also doubled the main guitar part and panned the tracks to about 4 and 8 o'clock.

Special thanks to Colin Coffey of John Schwab Recording for his constructive criticism and creative input.

GregElchert_GearfestPuremixContest

My submission to the Indaba Music/Telefunken remix contest. 
DAW: Pro Tools 10
Monitoring: Focusrite Saffire 14 and VRM Box (Japanese White preset); Sennheiser HD203 headphones
EQ: Waves Q10 and Renaissance EQ
Compression: Waves Renaissance Compressor and Channel Strip; Bomb Factory BF76

Nicki Bluhm - Go Go Go (Greg Elchert remix)

My latest remix - and first real electronic mix! Once again for IndabaMusic.com, this is "Roar," by Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso, from the Monsters University soundtrack.