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Recording Engineer
Moderator
I Quickly Admit
Not me! But for certain applications, one way can be better than the other for pretty obivous reasons.
Not me! But for certain applications, one way can be better than the other for pretty obivous reasons.
S
Spider
New member
do many mics perform better upside down , or at least better for certain applications? like the nt1 , recording accoustic guitar i have it upside down (or is it?) and it sounds great , yet vocals i have it the other way ... would this be making much difference to the recorded sound?
Ears
ADA
I doubt it would make a difference, as refraction takes place before the diaphram.
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James HE
a spoonfull weighs a ton
I use the Nt-1 upsidedown sometimes. I dunno something just pulls mr into doing it that way. I sort of did a little "expeiment" mith this micing a bass cab with the NT-1. One night up, the next night tried it down- same position of mic and cab and setting on the amp- who knows how tempermental that 69 p-bass can be though 
- not a good test for sure, but I liked it better upside down. Voodoo? Maybe....
-jhe
- not a good test for sure, but I liked it better upside down. Voodoo? Maybe....-jhe
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James HE
a spoonfull weighs a ton
I did this same test with an ex-girfriend once too 
one night up the next night down. She loved it both ways
-jhe
one night up the next night down. She loved it both ways -jhe
mixmkr
we don't need rest!!
well...the idea....basically dealing with older tube mics, and not necessarily the U87, is that after *warm up* the heat rises within the mic and "changes" the sound. Sure sounds like BS to me. I figure such a mic to be so unstable as that its reliabilty to be questionable, not to mention the general golden eared listening public we have now a days that "care" about such things.
LI Slim
New member
The warm-up period is also very important to this technique with a girlfriend.