Purpose of this type of mic placement...

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iownrocknroll said:
Billy Corgan of the smashing pumpkins used this technique on every record they recorded, he'd use one mic for the verse and the other mic for the choruses.
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It just goes to show ya, gear can only help you so much...

G.
 
RAMI said:
Um...No. Having something facing you and then spinning (sideways) it so that it's upside down, without turning it front to back, means the same side is still facing you.
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Lt. Bob said:
ditto plus a million
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yeah that's right, and exactly what i was trying to say.

welp, as long as we understand each other... :D
 
oh, and just to end this discussion:

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orange tape designates capsule direction.
anyone else wanna piece-a-me? ;)

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Post-it notes aside, show us an actual side-address mic with the name plate on the side (i.e. the side perpendicular to the capsule face).

G.
 
^haha. i like you.
think we share the same stubborness! ;)

for the record, just wanted to mention that i've really learned alot this past month going through old threads on this board.
this is definitely due to the combined experience and wisdom of posters like yourself, Richard M., Harvey Gerst and others.
i'm currently trying to digest this thread:
https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=27030
and it's blowing my little mind.
for someone like myself just starting out, this board really is an invaluable resource.
just wanted to put that out there.
sorry for gushing.
 
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fat_fleet said:
^haha. i like you.
think we share the same stubborness! ;)
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sorry for gushing.
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How DARE you compliment me!?! (j/k ;) :D )

Seriously, I'm glad you're getting value out of this BBS, and yeah, Harvey is definitely a guy to read up on and listen to; he'll never steer you wrong (as much as humanly possible, anyway :) ) And Richard and a few others here are quite good at this stuff and probably better than I as well.

Actually, earlier on in this thread I believe I mentioned the whole "label on the side" thing and something to the effect that in such a case you'd be absolutely right. Maybe I didn't state that well enough or strong enough.

But that's not what we had in the picture in question, and I can't think of a side-address mic (like the ones in the pics, where the capsule faces out the side of the mic and not out the top, like in an SM57) where the label is facing any way but the front or back of the capsule face.

I just repeated it here because I fear that point got lost in the heat of discussion and new thread pages and so forth.

Welcome to the board and I hope you enjoy! (And I MEAN that and NOTHING is going to change my mind, damnit! :D)

G.
 
fat_fleet said:
oh, and just to end this discussion:

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P8211084.jpg


orange tape designates capsule direction.
anyone else wanna piece-a-me? ;)

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That's because you're turning it front to back. If you rotated it sideways to make it upside down, the mic would remain pointing the same direction.

This ain't rocket surgery. :rolleyes:
 
I'm really amazed. I just picked up my NTK, which I keep at my desk. Sure enough, the main badge is smack dab on the side of the mic. I have not moved the damned sticker either, and the body is screwed on to a reasonable hand tightness.

I think the bottom might be an M-Audio Nova. The body looks slightly graduated and the grill appears flattened. The area of the body near the xlr is nothing like Rode designs.

I know, the post was about which mic technique is being used in the picture. But who would have thought that a mic badge would be on the body perpendicular to the capsule?
 

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Sometimes I use this mic setup for getting loud and soft vocals. One mic has the gain turned up to capture the quiet stuff and the other has the gain turn down to get the loud stuff that will distort the other mic's track.

Sometimes it's quicker and easier than teaching someone mic technique.
 
Anyone have a U87 in front of them, because that bottom mic sure looks like one with a rare but not unseen mount... sorry this should be about techniques not gear.
 
darrin_h2000 said:
From using a compressor I hadnt thought of that.
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I do a lot of stuff where people go from a whisper to a scream. It will go from uncompressed to WAY TOO compressed. It sounds better to have two different chains, each set up to make each sound exactly the way it should.
 
Well, that looks like the answer, Darrin. Good catch-Richie
 
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