mic up or down or does it matter?

[antman]

mic up or down or does it matter? does it matter if its upright or downright cause i see many studios or people who place there mic downwards...is there some benefits?? or its just a matter of taste..?

 

[darrenoneill]

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I asked myself the exact same question... always seemed to get better resulats pointing my mic down

I think its just coincidence, I really cant see how it would make a difference?

 

[scrubs]

Convention was to hang old tube mics upside down so that heat from the tube would dissipate away from the diaphragm. With non-tube mics, it doesn't really matter (some would say it doesn't make much difference with tube mics, either, but that's another discussion). It seems easier to position upside down, imo, and keeps the cable out of the way; plus it looks cool and keeps asshole singers from grabbing it like a stage mic.

 

[ecktronic]

Convention was to hang old tube mics upside down so that heat from the tube would dissipate away from the diaphragm. With non-tube mics, it doesn't really matter (some would say it doesn't make much difference with tube mics, either, but that's another discussion). It seems easier to position upside down, imo, and keeps the cable out of the way; plus it looks cool and keeps asshole singers from grabbing it like a stage mic.

Interesting to know.
Never thought about that before.

Eck

 

[andydeedpoll]

stops singers putting headphones on top of it too when they're done.

Andy.

 

[tarnationsauce2]

It depends on the mic clip or shock mount.

Usually most mics naturally "want" to face down by the way that gravity swings them.
I figure why fight gravity and put extra stress on the shock mount wingnut? I have this frame of thought when I place stands to help keep them from moving. They're practically perfectly balanced. So much so that usually I have them set so that it would stay put even if you loosened most of the adjustments.
But I do offset the weight a bit so there's some preload.

 

[Poco]

stops singers putting headphones on top of it too when they're done.

Andy.

I guess I'm not the only one that gets bugged by that! You see tham drape the dang headphones over a mic that was perfectly adjusted for their horn or whatever, and pretty soon it's pointing at the floor...

Seconding others here, I have read that tube mics are hung with the capsule down to avoid toasting it with tube heat. Makes sense to me.

Poco

 

[ecktronic]

It depends on the mic clip or shock mount.

Usually most mics naturally "want" to face down by the way that gravity swings them.
I figure why fight gravity and put extra stress on the shock mount wingnut? I have this frame of thought when I place stands to help keep them from moving. They're practically perfectly balanced. So much so that usually I have them set so that it would stay put even if you loosened most of the adjustments.
But I do offset the weight a bit so there's some preload.

Good info.
Eck