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Originally Posted by GhostofJohnToad
is really the only advantage with the stereo pair for situations say in which I were just recording vocals and acoustic and wanted acoustic to be very prominent? I have been reading conflicting advice and am a little confused.
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I'm confused now - are you recording guitar, or a singing guitarist? And is the guitar going to be the only instrument, or part of a band mix? What is the purpose of the recordings and what level do you want to record to? What style of music are you playing?
For recording guitar on its own, even when listened to on a great hi fi, very few listeners will distinguish between a genuine stereo recoded acoustic guitar and a mono recorded acoustic with a touch of stereo reverb to give a soundstage for it. Depending on mic'ing techniques an acoustic recorded with 2 mics can sound un-naturally wide and strange too.
If you are singing too, most pop, rock, country and folk music favours relative close mic's vocals, so the nearest to an ideal setup for this is a SM58 for vocals and a relatively close mic'd condenser on guitar (close mic'd to reduce phasing issues betweeen the mics).
I haven't looked around for condensers in your price range, as Woodman says there are some terrible ones around, I never understood why the C1000 had such good press I also found it to be a pretty much un-usable mic! It is possible a good dynamic might be better than a poor condenser. I hear good reports about various cheap Russian and Chinese mics, but I haven't tried them to be able to comment.