Ways to capture electro-acoustic guitar sound

When I'm recording electric guitar I usually just mic up the amp and run that through a mixer then to the sound card. But when I do this with my electro acoustic it loses so much tone and sounds horrible. How do you capture your acoustic guitar sound?

Use 2 mic's t recourd acoustic/electric guitar. A large condenson 6" from the hole off axiss and a sm57 dynamic micby the neck and mic itt as close as you can , like 3-6 inches.
You can also usse the pickup in the guitar for a total of 3 tracks. Record tham on fdferent tracksand mnever bounce them together, always keep them seperate, Each mice will go into its owun track in sonar, so you will have a total of 3 tracks in sonar for acoustic guitar.. Yoy can use these 3 tracks to get a nice sound without using EQ, because of the different places of the mic's. Mix it to your liking and your off to record another track.
CJ

If you have a good sound coming out of the amp then you need to experiment with microphones and mic placement until you find the right combination/sweet spot(s). If the sound coming out of the amp is not so good then no combination of mics and placement is going to make it much better. Most electric guitar amps don't really have the tonal range to handle acoustic guitar properly. They squish the highs and lows and focus on midrange, and this is mostly because the speaker cabinets use only one kind of speaker. Without a tweater to get the highs and woofer to get the lows you end up losing a lot of the tonal range of acoustic guitar. This is why many acoustic players plug into the board for live performances; that way they can use the wider tonal range of P.A. speakers. Either that or they use an acoustic guitar amp that has a different speaker configuration than an electric amp.

When I am tracking electric/acoustic guitar (I have several: Gibson L5, Gibson L4, Gibson ES347, Taylor T5 Thinline, Gibson ES175) I usually roll the treble off on the guitar, and then use an A/B/Y splitter. I send one output to my PODxT PRO, and the other into a DI (I use a UA LA610 these days). I don't track in stereo. I prefer two mono tracks, but there are plenty of people who like stereo effects on their guitars. On the POD I have a preset that I have modified to my taste. Pretty clean with a slight delay, and then with the LA610 I like to add a little tube warmth. I don't use any reverb or chorus, but sometimes I like to pitch shift the POD track a little to fatten up the sound. To my ears this makes a really good guitar sound, and captures the guitar well without drowning it in too many recording techniques.

Hope that helps,
Paul

ORIGINAL: Siman.M
How do you capture your acoustic guitar sound?

two mics in an x-y configuration, one SD condenser, one dynamic. the mics line up at the point where the neck hits the soundhole, the condenser points toward the sound hole and the dynamic points toward the neck.