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dres
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Here's an interesting effect I discovered when playing with 2 NT1's a few weeks ago. It's an effect that might be interesting to some...
Set up two identical mics on stands next to each other so that the stands are near vertical and you can easily grab one with your hand. Run both through your desk/preamp with the gains matched and set monitor them through your headphones. Reverse the phase of one mic and talk/sing into the mics. If you don't have a phase reversal switch you could make a special mic lead to do the job. The effect ?
Not surprisingly if your in the right place the two mics cancel and your voice pritty much disappears. All you hear is reflections from your room, interesting ? there's more... Now grab one of the mic stands and move it slowly backwards and forwards... the sound of your voice reappears and different positions cancel different frequencies giving a kind of phased effect.
I find the NT1's are pritty silibant and using this technique you can effectively kill the offending frequencies.... the resulting sound isn't natural but for the right song could be just the thing.
Now the positioning is fairly crucial so your singer would have to be pritty diciplined however for more effect you could get them to be creative and move one of the mic stands in time with the music.
The effect would also work for mismatched mics with subtle variations in the cancellation effect.
I'm sure it's been done before (Harvey ?) It's experimental stuff but good fun.
Set up two identical mics on stands next to each other so that the stands are near vertical and you can easily grab one with your hand. Run both through your desk/preamp with the gains matched and set monitor them through your headphones. Reverse the phase of one mic and talk/sing into the mics. If you don't have a phase reversal switch you could make a special mic lead to do the job. The effect ?
Not surprisingly if your in the right place the two mics cancel and your voice pritty much disappears. All you hear is reflections from your room, interesting ? there's more... Now grab one of the mic stands and move it slowly backwards and forwards... the sound of your voice reappears and different positions cancel different frequencies giving a kind of phased effect.
I find the NT1's are pritty silibant and using this technique you can effectively kill the offending frequencies.... the resulting sound isn't natural but for the right song could be just the thing.
Now the positioning is fairly crucial so your singer would have to be pritty diciplined however for more effect you could get them to be creative and move one of the mic stands in time with the music.
The effect would also work for mismatched mics with subtle variations in the cancellation effect.
I'm sure it's been done before (Harvey ?) It's experimental stuff but good fun.
