Sennheiser 421 II bass rolloff and placement suggestions for different situations?

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Sennheiser 421 II bass rolloff and placement suggestions for different situations?

*Distorted 12" guitar speaker
*Vocals - Pop filter or not, stand how far away?
*Kick - In drum head-hole or outside of?
*Clean Guitar
*Acoustic
*Bass Cab

Also, am I reading the spec sheet for this mic right when it looks like one side of the mic has a different transfer characteristic than the other? Do you guys take advantage of this in some way?

Thanks!
 
Well the 5 position Roll off switch is only marked with an M for music and V for vocals -- at least that is what I've always assumed so having the switch on the V would want to compensate for proximity effect for close vocal recording ... Or is it S for speech?, so more of a roll off. Then getting less of a roll off towards the M (flat) position for instruments.
Any Germans out there that know the words for these markings?

Or do what I do and try them all till you have the reproduction that your looking for.

As for the Microphone it's self it is an end address microphone so if your wanting to record from one side of the microphone or the other it would be an off axis capture of your sources sound.
 
In German the S would indeed stand for Speech, or Sprache, in this case.

It, indeed is not a bass roll-off, but a filter for handling noise, as it once was a popular mic for reporters etc.

I understand a lot of people hotwire it to bypass that switch.
 
chrisghost said:
In German the S would indeed stand for Speech, or Sprache, in this case.

It, indeed is not a bass roll-off, but a filter for handling noise, as it once was a popular mic for reporters etc.

I understand a lot of people hotwire it to bypass that switch.
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It is music and speech, and yeah, it probably does originate from handling noise, but it's still a bass roll off.
 
I wish the OP would come back and explain how the spec sheet talks about the different side to side recording on an end address microphone.
 
Guess they could be talking about the off axis sound capturing?
 
moresound said:
Guess they could be talking about the off axis sound capturing?
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Yeah this is what I meant by that. It's not very symmetrical? How do you use this to your advantage?

and yeah the switch on the mic has S -> M (rolloff -> full bass).

I'm basically looking for suggestions like if you record a 4x12 marshall cab with a distorted guitar tone, do you just leave the switch on M, or do you roll some of it off?

and in the other situations I listed too as example situations..

Also, should a pop filter be used infront of this mic for recording vocals? And how far away, etc
 
I would start at the M position then move the microphone around a bit till it's something that you like.
 
moresound said:
Well the 5 position Roll off switch is only marked with an M for music and V for vocals -- at least that is what I've always assumed so having the switch on the V would want to compensate for proximity effect for close vocal recording ... Or is it S for speech?, so more of a roll off. Then getting less of a roll off towards the M (flat) position for instruments.
Any Germans out there that know the words for these markings?

Or do what I do and try them all till you have the reproduction that your looking for.

As for the Microphone it's self it is an end address microphone so if your wanting to record from one side of the microphone or the other it would be an off axis capture of your sources sound.
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It's marked "M" and "S" = "Music" and "Speech".
 
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