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There's a lot of personal preferences that goes into this decision, but I personally prefer recording acoustic instruments with a large diaphragm condenser microphone. You can position the microphone very closely to the instrument, provided the violinist doesn't move around a lot when playing, and you can experiment with placing the microphone closer to the ...

I use a Fishman v100 with their 3 band eq/preamp. Plugging the preamp directly into a Fender guitar amp hiZ input (1/4") is not giving me good sound. It is "crackling" or "glassy" for want of better words. Using a DI box (passive) and going directly to the mixer works well. I want to try the new Fishman Loud Box amplifiers though. I think that might ...

According to the user guide, the manufacturer recommends a 10M ohm impedance preamp. That's a very high impedance, which might even exceed the guitar/"instrument level" input on some mixers (contrast with "line level" and "microphone level"). The short answer is that unless your mixer has a matching high-Z input, then the violin is going to sound thin in a ...

Have a look at Native Instruments Session Strings which is a sample based VSTi of a string ensemble, which has built in "articulations", including "scoops/falls" specifically targetted at creating 70s disco sounds. There is also Session Strings Pro which has a much larger sample library and a few extra features

The classic "70's" string sound is the Arp String Ensemble. It is featured in such songs as "Babe" by Styx. This plugin (stringer) might do the trick: http://freemusicsoftware.org/category/free-vst/strings. There are also other plugins in that page you can try. If you are looking for more realistic string sounds, and don't want to purchase an enormous ...