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Thanks Jim,

I am going through a Mackie Onyx820i mixer and from the main outs into an IMac using garage band. I do have the vocals on one track and the guitar on the other, but there is certainly some bleed between the two mics. I have just used one of the presets in Garage band called R&B, and then I use a little of the built in compressor to bring up the level. This is the best I've gotten it to sound so far, but I was really out of time to send the song into the contest. I did get a compressor that will go from the inserts on the Mackie, to the compressor, and back to the mackie. It's a FMR Audio RNC, which is supposed to be a GREAT little compressor.

for this song, I really didn't do much to improve the sound as I was out of time, but the raw sound was so much better than the other's you've heard, that I just went with it.

I do record in a big room away from walls, and will hopefully get a K2 on ebay here shortly.

When recording, I have a whole ritual I go through, I just turn it on and go after fooling around with mic placement on the guitars. I'm not very happy with what the beta 57 is doing, but I did just hear from a guy in the biz who says to keep the mic as it is the mic for a National Resophonic, which I do play. I do check the levels to see if I'm clipping, but I don't put any eq on it, on the new song, I did'nt even touch the eq after I was done...I will try recording both with the Baby Bottle, and see how it goes, but I really do want a K2, especially with it's variable pattern. That should be very interesting.

I really appreciate your help!

Best wishes,

John