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After trying out a borrowed acoustic guitar for about one month, i realize there was some technical issues. There is this obvious ringing / buzzing especially obvious whenever i play a G chord. I read online and there was so many reasons that it could happen. So i would try to post it online to see if anyone could help. I then decided to do a recording to kill a few birds at one stone.

Used a simple netbook, a normal web USB microphone, with Audacity and MediaFire web hosting.

1. Try the USB (normal Web Conference) microphone to verify the myth of people saying that a normal USB microphone is good enough. (No need to buy any expensive microphones like the Yeti)

2. First try with Audacity recording. Not too bad - previously just fooling around with phone's recorder application or the simple Sound Recorder from the Start button.
Encountered a lot of buzzing sound when i was recording. Tried to lower it by as much as 15 dB, but then i realize the quality is bad. Did a quick search online and found out the cause was my power adapter as i was charging my netbook.

3. First try with audio hosting. Trying out Media Fire at the moment.
Problematic guitar G chord can be downloaded found here
http://www.mediafire.com/?lquo1c91wyacb75

But i am still looking at an alternative whereby readers can just play directly (without any logging in to third party sites). 
Update: I found the free embedded player
http://vivianviolin.blogspot.sg/2012/06/embedded-audio-on-your-site-sound-cloud.html



So... do feel free to let me know what is wrong. (violin@xmail.net)
Thanks!


Update (16 June 2012):
After testing it out on an acoustic guitar, it looks like it is a technique issue.


As mentioned on http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080722125016AATO9F6

"The buzzing is most likely from the strings rattling against the frets when you strum hard; the action on your guitar is set up for gentle fingerpicking, not vigorous folk-rock strumming, so the strings are a bit too close to the fingerboard and that causes the buzzing. You can take your guitar to a repair person and have the action raised; that will solve the buzzing problem.

The wide neck is something you'll just have to get used to, you can't change that.

Eventually you may want to consider buying yourself a new steel-string acoustic in order to get the narrower neck and the sound that you want.The buzzing is most likely from the strings rattling against the frets when you strum hard; the action on your guitar is set up for gentle fingerpicking, not vigorous folk-rock strumming, so the strings are a bit too close to the fingerboard and that causes the buzzing. You can take your guitar to a repair person and have the action raised; that will solve the buzzing problem.

The wide neck is something you'll just have to get used to, you can't change that.

Eventually you may want to consider buying yourself a new steel-string acoustic in order to get the narrower neck and the sound that you want."