Folk Fingerstyle Acoustic guitar/vocals mixing ideas

Hi guys,
I know everyone on here has different ways to mix, so I wanted to start off a thread to get different opinions on my new project. I write folk style music with mainly just finger style acoustic guitar, vocals and some tracks include some La Session Strings cello and some tracks have harmonica.
 
I use Sonar X1, I have all the Waves plug ins, Mercury bundle. I have watched quite a few tutorials on mixing acoustic guitars and vocals, and I wanted to get users ideas here on what they use.
 
With my current set up, I like to keep it quite simple, with two acoustic guitar tracks, panned hard left and hard right, using the same recording of 1 acoustic guitar. I route the acoustic tracks to one reverb bus, that I also use for vocals.
I also have the vocal track sent to a delay bus and the one reverb bus.
 
Now, here are some of my questions I'd like to share for you helpful guys.
 
1. Should I use the same reverb bus for acoustic guitar and vocals, as I've heard that using the same reverb, you get the mix sounding like it's all in the same room.
 
2. Which reverb plug ins does everyone like to use, I currently have Lexicon reverb plug in too.
 
3. Which plug ins and chains does everyone like to use.
 
Any other tips would be great. I also want to ask you all about using too much/too little compression on acoustic guitars as I want to keep my acoustic tracks very dynamic as it's folk style, and I don't use many instruments, so therefore there is a lot of space in my mixes.
 
Thanks in advance for all your help!
 
Tones..

Hi gswitz,
 
Thanks for the input. I like what you've written here, it's very similar to what I've been doing. I also like to keep it simple with EQing mainly on the tracks.
 
I find one aspect interesting here that you've stated. When you say you like to pull some of the mids out of the guitars during the vocals, do you mean that you automate the EQ so that you drop the mids only when the vocals are active in the track?
 
Thank you again for your input.
 
Tones..

Ok buddy, thanks again for your insight!
 
Tones..

Another nice tip, thanks again!

Welcome to the thread Glenn, thanks for your input!

Usually when I record 2 acoustic instruments + singers there is lots of bleed in the mics. For this reason, I am loathe to adjust pitch because while I might improve the vocal, I'm likely to pull the guitars out of tune.
 
I use M-AutoAlign to resolve phase issues on the various concurrently recorded tracks with bleed. It basically measures the distance between the mics. It's kinda cool. If the mics were 4 feet apart, the adjustment is around 4 milliseconds.
http://www.meldaproduction.com/plugins/product.php?id=MAutoAlign
 
There is a video tutorial for MAutoAlign on the Melda Site that helps explain.

Okay... here's the blog post (by Dan Gonzalez). Not sure if NoScript is blocking the vids or if I was thinking of another set of tuts  but maybe it'll be useful to you.
 
http://www.cakewalk.com/S...reader.aspx/2007013311
 

Thanks Beepster for dropping by. I have a few Groove 3 tutorials, but I'll check out the solo singer/songwriter ones, thanks again.
 
Tones...