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23.11.04
New Microphones
I bought two new microphones, Nady's. They can be switched from omni, to figure 8 and cardioid. This allows several kinds of stereo, including my favourite: MS, Mid-sides.
Omni: equally sensitive for all frequencies, comming form all directions. However, due to the large membrane, the front and back are a little more sensitive for bright tones.
Figure 8: sensitive only on the front and back, huge proximity effect, meaning fat base when you're close.
Cardioid: just the addition of the two. The front side gets omni+8, meaning bright highs and fat lows (when close). Due to cancellation, the rear of the mic is deaf, apart from the lows of the proximity effect of the figure 8.
Mid-Sides stereo is made with an omni or a cardioid mic pointing at the centre (me, for now), and a figure 8 looking 90 degrees to both sides (into the room). If you add them in one channel, and substract them in the other, a pure volume-based stereo image arises, without stupid phase issues. Here's a test recording, with me jamming on guitar, and a layer with an Uzbekistani drum on top of that, both recorded in MS stereo in ProTools (using busses to patch the lot). To enable you to judge the Mics, I did not add any reverb and did not use any EQ, just a little compression (looking ahead).
If you want to hear the center mic only, just set your mixer to mono.
If you want to hear the figure 8 only, set you mixer to mono, and flip the phase of one channel. Remember this mic was looking away from the instruments: the hole of the guitar was pointing into the deaf circle of the 8!
Update: Here's the Mastered version, with a bit more bass, reduced harshness, a little more compression and some reverb.
Omni: equally sensitive for all frequencies, comming form all directions. However, due to the large membrane, the front and back are a little more sensitive for bright tones.
Figure 8: sensitive only on the front and back, huge proximity effect, meaning fat base when you're close.
Cardioid: just the addition of the two. The front side gets omni+8, meaning bright highs and fat lows (when close). Due to cancellation, the rear of the mic is deaf, apart from the lows of the proximity effect of the figure 8.
Mid-Sides stereo is made with an omni or a cardioid mic pointing at the centre (me, for now), and a figure 8 looking 90 degrees to both sides (into the room). If you add them in one channel, and substract them in the other, a pure volume-based stereo image arises, without stupid phase issues. Here's a test recording, with me jamming on guitar, and a layer with an Uzbekistani drum on top of that, both recorded in MS stereo in ProTools (using busses to patch the lot). To enable you to judge the Mics, I did not add any reverb and did not use any EQ, just a little compression (looking ahead).
If you want to hear the center mic only, just set your mixer to mono.
If you want to hear the figure 8 only, set you mixer to mono, and flip the phase of one channel. Remember this mic was looking away from the instruments: the hole of the guitar was pointing into the deaf circle of the 8!
Update: Here's the Mastered version, with a bit more bass, reduced harshness, a little more compression and some reverb.
