Rode troubles

[Dan Micah]

Flat batteries??

Perhaps this will make you feel a little better...

In a high school music class last term, a year 7 student was complaining that her guitar didn't work - she couldn't hear it. Jokingly I told her that it probably had flat batteries. She spent about five minutes looking for the batteries on an old nylon string before I realised that she hadn't got the joke . I know a teacher shouldn't laugh at a student, but jeez that was funny.

 

[up-fiddler]

Everyone, at one time or another, has attempted to sing into the wrong side of a mic.

Good luck from here on out.

Pete

The people who say they haven't are big liars. Don't feel bad.



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[mb66]

I was recording some friends a few weeks back, trying to get a group of vocals around a condenser (CAD M179) for a chorus-type part of a song. Take after take it was thin and tinny. Kept moving them around and changing the polar pattern to no avail. Finally one of the guys traced the cable and held up the non-connected end. Huh? Turns out what I was getting was from a small condenser (SP4) on a drum overhead about six feet behind them. It was sitting about 2" over a ride cymbal. But hey, if you ever want that congregational church-sounding choral response, that's how to do it! We kept it and it was a great accidental effect for that part of the song.