Having your Condenser Mic UPSIDE down.....
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Ah ... come on Jim. I bet you look marvelous in a dress. 
Shadow_7
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A number of sites have unlike buttons now. Negative reputation. Always nice to have higher numbers in six months than most mods have had in 4+ years. Even if yours is negative and theirs is not. Some even configure it now where it looks like you need to click / unclick them to do the multi-quote thing. I miss usenet.
I like having the floor space, so given the option I would probably hang everything upside down. But I live in the country so anything on the ground is a) blocking your view of the mice / snakes / whatever critter of the week. And b) likely to get damaged in the process of taking care of said critters. Plus that whole biological function thing. Gravity is NOT your friend. But I've seen those things on the curtain rod, where there was no easy way to get to there from here.
I like having the floor space, so given the option I would probably hang everything upside down. But I live in the country so anything on the ground is a) blocking your view of the mice / snakes / whatever critter of the week. And b) likely to get damaged in the process of taking care of said critters. Plus that whole biological function thing. Gravity is NOT your friend. But I've seen those things on the curtain rod, where there was no easy way to get to there from here.
guitaristic
prophet of Dave
I like to hang my condenser upside down...it makes me feel special.
And it comes in very handy for bats, vampires and the small community known as topsy turvy.
PhilGood
Juice box hero
The first mic ever hung upside down was the Telefunken/Neumann U47 and it was hung upside down for a reason. The M7 capsule in that mic had a diaphragm made from PVC, which starts drying out pretty much as soon as its poured. The diaphragm cracks like a spider web and becomes brittle and starts to lose the low end. Engineers were worried the heat from the tube was accelerating the process and began setting up the stand so that the tube was oriented above the diaphragm so the heat would rise up and away from it. Although in truth, more heat is generated by the mic's heater's wire wound drop resistor than the tube itself. Other benefits were discovered afterward, like it allows a music stand to be more accessible and forces singers to sing with their head lifted, which opens the throat up, captures more deepness from the chest and just gets a better performance.
It was really just a necessity that became a trend.
It was really just a necessity that became a trend.