II. The Edit // JAN 18th

Igor Recording is always like looking at your performance with a microscope! This is why I always advise my students to record themselves, because suddenly you hear so much more things! This is really an issue when you do a commercial recording with an artist and this artist hears himself for the first time, which ultimately means that the artist didn't properly prepare himself for that occasion, leading to possibly big frustration if he or she really doesn't recognize the performance! But a microphone never lies, it as honest to your performance as it can get! 

I promise, your editing skills will improve! Nobody is born with all the keyboard shortcuts in their fingers, it just takes time and repetition. At first, we are overwhelmed with all the technicalities, but after some time, the techniques become very natural, you start to think about WHAT you want, not HOW to do something. It's basically like practicing instrument, really
Now to your questions:
1) Recording is the same process, but you would probably (but not necessarily) used more mics to have more flexibility in post production. But I have recorded whole orchestras with only to mics, so you don't really need more than that. We only have to ears You would need to think more about the proper placement, since the two main mics define your sound with a greater impact. If one instrument is too loud or placed too far in the room, it's hard to balance them in the mixer afterwards. So a proper soundcheck is of the utmost importance!

2) When recording acoustic guitar, I really like the position on the 12th fret since the metal strings have just a very lovely sparkle over there! If I need more body, I would try different mic positions, but generally, 12th fret works for me. Acoustic guitars tend to have more "boxy" frequencies that you would want to avoid, though!

Almost forgot about your recording! That is a wonderful recording, I'm sure it can be enhanced with some nice reverb which we looked at in the 3rd workshop! I really couldn't hear any edits, though, congratulations to you! I would just recommend to get a little bit closer to the sound source since you have slightly elevated noise levels (going closer to the source means you can reduce your input gain thus reducing preamp noise) and a small room reverbation which doesn't mix well with this kind of music! 

Thank you for this recording, I look forward to your next one :)

Rick Ankney Wonderful! Awesome that you like your edit, since we tend to be the biggest critics of our own work, this is definitely a big step!

The Bluebird is a very nice mic with a very clean output! I'd suggest to try the bridge side, since the sound tends to be a little fuller on this side. But other than that, this is a very nice recording!

I think only recognized one edit, where you accidentally cut of the attack of a note, shifting your crossfade just a little bit to the will help with that!

Andrei Pitu I have been working with DT 880 Pro for a long time (and even changed the left driver because it broke somehow) and am very happy with the quality. I guess that the 770 is even better suited for enabling informed mixing decisions. 
I don't know the HD 300, but the HD 600 is a highly regarded standard among mixing engineers, so I guess the HD 300 is at least ... half as good?

Barry Hi Barry! That is a great edit plan! I try to make my edit plan always as clear as possible, so that I could give this plan to another engineer and he or she can start editing right away (which actually happens quite a lot in the industry, there are recording engineers, sound editors, mastering engineers, so for some production there is a great division of labor. But 90% of the time I need to do everything).

Concerning your gain levels: You need to adjust your rec level on your Zoom H6 (it's on the .. .right side of your device, maybe?)! If you adjust your gain in Reaper, you will bring up the whole noise floor, resulting in a lesser dynamic range. Optimising your signal to noise ratio is one of your key concerns when doing a sound check, so while you are setting up your mic levels on the Zoom, try to land between -12db and -6db!

The sample rate tells you how often an analoge signal gets converted in one second, so basically the higher, the more faithful your signal transmission will be. However, there are certain standards: we use 44.1khz for physical disc distribution (and I think online streaming services are also taking 44.1khz files) and 48khz for working with video! So if you want to use your recording for a music video, it's best to directly record at 48khz.

When you buy new interfaces, you can also see specs like "up to 192khz". While the fidelity of a recording increases with a higher sample rate, I actually never recorded higher than 48khz. The Sample rate defines, which is the highest frequencies that can be converted without digital artifacts with the factor (Sample Rate)/2 in frequency. So in 48khz, we still can faithfully recreate frequencies up to 24khz which is probably high enough for my dog to hear but waaay out of range for me, haha!