Ambient micing?
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Scooter B
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I would like to know this as well however I am kinda thinking getting good ambient sounds will depend on having a good sounding room to pick up those ambient sounds.
Perhaps it would be good to include in the discussion or in another thread how to create good ambient sounds at home to mic.
Perhaps it would be good to include in the discussion or in another thread how to create good ambient sounds at home to mic.
Harvey Gerst
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Be my guest, DJL.DJL said:
After I finished reading your comments in the ADK thread
(http://www.homerecording.com/bbs/showpost.php?p=1464964&postcount=24), all I can say is you're one fucking incredible piece of work, and you can have this forum all to yourself from now on...
...I'm outta here.
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Harvey Gerst
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No, that's really the last straw. DJL is trying to bait me, and I won't put up with it anymore. He can have this fucking place all to himself and show everybody just what he really knows about this stuff. I'm sure if he doesn't know something, he'll either paste an old answer he found, or just make some shit up.mcolling said:
Scooter B
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Don't worry Harvey,
You have earned most members respect here while most prefer to ignore DJL.
You have contributed knowledgable and usefull information while DJL has mostly offered a bad attitude.
If you insist on leaving then start your own forum without DJL and most of us will follow you over there for "DJL free" zone.
mshilarious
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Harvey Gerst
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Please Scooter, the last thing I want is for people to leave homerecording.com over this. This BBS is a great source of information and some incredibly knowledgable people reside here. Learn from the ones who are really here to help.Scooter B said:
I will still be on other parts of this BBS, trying to help out when and where I can. If DJL follows me to other parts of this BBS and starts his shit there as well, I'll leave it to Dragon to decide how to handle it. This is Davids house, and we're all just guests here, but every so often, somebody has to clean up the crap some guests leave lying around.
May I suggest that if you have the option of running three or four inputs, place a pair of any reasonably flat-in-the-free-field mics somewhere mid-way in the room to catch the instruments, and mix in a bit of direct of the pa. Since we don't know the setup, an example would be guitar and bass amps on either side of a kit; set a pair of mics on each side a few feet up and back just enough to get a blend. Drums (everything in general) can sound beefier there than from above or too far back. You'd be going for a nice compromise between direct/close sound and room mush.
Wayne
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Scooter B
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Good point.
This place had already dropped to third on my list b/c of the DJL type of badgering but I occasionally drop in for researching some stuff with the search feature.
It is David's place as you said.
QUOTE=mixsit]Sure. Mostly that just eliminates the live-vocal type mics that rely on close proximity to get the low end up.
Good point.
This place had already dropped to third on my list b/c of the DJL type of badgering but I occasionally drop in for researching some stuff with the search feature.
It is David's place as you said.
dragonworks
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I read somewhere that "Live at Leeds" had ambient mic tracks on it?
Wow... WTF? I've been busy with my family or I would have seen this sooner. I'm not trying to bait anyone... I just thought this was the type of questions you liked answering. But, here you are getting all fucking worked up over nothing again and using this thread to start another round of crap... man I can't believe you.Harvey Gerst said:
Anyway... to answer your question Amped... there is no quick postvie place to place the mic(s)... you are going to need to experment some... the first two things I would try are.
1. Use two SDC mics in an X/Y position and try placing them about 10ft out in front of the drums... dead center, and about 5-6 high.
2. Try using an LDC mic set to the omni postion and move it around the room untill you find the sweet spot.
And I'd try using a small amount of compression... say about a 2:1 over easy.
Anyway, one of the above should get you in the ballpark.
Now, I've got to go read the other thread that Harvey linked here and see what kind of fucked bullshit crap is he said about me there too.
EDIT: ok, now that I've cooled down so I can think... there are some important things you need to keep in mind. Don't play too loud, and rather than truning something up... just point it more at the mics... in other words, you need to get a good mix in the room first and point it at the mic(s). In this case a bad room mix = bad recording.
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