Revalation!!!!:>:>

[VesuviusJay]

I finally realized what all that phase stuff had to do with me since I had barely begun to deal with it. And I believe ladies and gentleman that if you mind your room angles in respect to the projection of the amplifier you can use 2 mics and close mic them without the bastard comb filtering :>! So here's what I ended up doing: Aiming my amp toward the opposite corner of the room. Suddenly the fierce comb filtering was diminished! Check out this track. Listen to the distorted guitar part in the middle and tell me if I should be partying at my sound or am I hallucinating.

Jay

http://vesuviusdeath.com/nmd.zip

 

[Light]

Anytime you use multiple mics on a source, you WILL get comb filtering. AT some frequencies it will be destructive, at other frequencies it will be constructive. None the less it will always be there. In point of fact, anytime you have multiple signals being summed together, you are getting phase interactions. This is more true with signals which are similar (such as doubled guitars, or horn sections), but it is true even with signals which are dissimilar. The only question is whether it sounds good or not. It is true that placing your amp in different places will change the sound, due to reflections off of various surfaces in the room, and these are also phase relationships, but changing the positioning of the amp will not eliminate the difference in arrival times at multiple mics. If the issue you were having went away when you moved the amp, than it was not an issue of mics, but an issue of room reflections.

Either way, if you have fixed the problem, you’re in good shape.

Light

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