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CyanJaguar
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hi, yesterday someone here said that he used the selectable patterns on his mic as natural eq, so I decided to check it out.
I am happy to report that I got better results out of my mic (AKG c414 recording vocals) with a few hours of mic placemnt, distance, and patterns
after a lot of listening, through headphones and through my nearfields, I finally decided that I preffered the figure eight pattern best, singing at about 6-8 inches from the mic. It had the most roundness
I had previously been singing about one inch from the mic, using a cardoid pattern, and even though this was also good, it tended to accentuate the ringing in my voice and the bass. (I confess, I did it like that because it sounded good on the digi001 video)
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What I would like is for you guys to please post the distances and patterns that have given you the best result with AKG and other mics as well so that I and others can try them out and see if we can get even better sound out of our beasts
peace
ps. my second favorite pattern was the omnidirectional pattern at 6 inches(it picked up the most ambience) and my worst was the cardoid pattern. now I know why the dude on prorec.com said that the selectable patterns on the rode nt2 make it worth the $200 price differnce between it and the rode nt1
hi, yesterday someone here said that he used the selectable patterns on his mic as natural eq, so I decided to check it out.
I am happy to report that I got better results out of my mic (AKG c414 recording vocals) with a few hours of mic placemnt, distance, and patterns
after a lot of listening, through headphones and through my nearfields, I finally decided that I preffered the figure eight pattern best, singing at about 6-8 inches from the mic. It had the most roundness
I had previously been singing about one inch from the mic, using a cardoid pattern, and even though this was also good, it tended to accentuate the ringing in my voice and the bass. (I confess, I did it like that because it sounded good on the digi001 video)
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What I would like is for you guys to please post the distances and patterns that have given you the best result with AKG and other mics as well so that I and others can try them out and see if we can get even better sound out of our beasts
peace
ps. my second favorite pattern was the omnidirectional pattern at 6 inches(it picked up the most ambience) and my worst was the cardoid pattern. now I know why the dude on prorec.com said that the selectable patterns on the rode nt2 make it worth the $200 price differnce between it and the rode nt1