Using a pencil with plosives

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I read a suggestion about using a pencil for plosives. What's the best way to position the pencil? I put a rubber band around the pop-filter and then inserted the pencil vertically parallel to the middle of the microphone. Will that work or would it be better if I applied the pencil directly to the microphone?
 
It does look silly as fuck...but it seems to work...you still need to protect it with a screen though.
 
or you could just poke the vocalist with the pencil everytime he or she gets a little over the top with the plosives and thus teach them not to do it through negative reinforcement
 
So, will it work if I attach the pencil to the screen or directly on to the microphone?

...and I can't poke myself with a pencil :D
 
JonPaulP said:
So, will it work if I attach the pencil to the screen or directly on to the microphone?

...and I can't poke myself with a pencil :D
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The point of the pencil (sorry about the pun) is to split the air stream. Closer to your mouth is better than closer to the mike. Go with placing it on the screen.
 
Or- You could take the pencil and write 1000 times, "I will control my aspirated consonants".-Richie
 
Alliteration Station

Perhaps if we ponder Paul P's predicament pertaining the placement of a pencil for personal plosive prevention...

...we'll need to place a spit screen in front of our computer monitors!

;) :D.

G.
 
I think I got the problem solved lol. I positioned the microphone at a certain angle and now there's no more plosives! :D
 
I would also suggest inserting the pensil in the anal cavity to keep fart noises off the track.
 
JonPaulP said:
I think I got the problem solved lol. I positioned the microphone at a certain angle and now there's no more plosives! :D
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Yeah...that's what I usually do...either by rotating the mic so the diaphragm is not perpendicular to the signer, but with a very slight angle, or by just moving the mic up/down/left/right so the singer isn't aimed at it like a bull’s-eye, and then have the singer focus on the position of the windscreen, not the mic.

When I’m doing my own singing, I just move my head over a bit when the ‘plosives are coming up…and pull it back when I have to sing louder, or move in when I’m going to sing softer…etc.
If you can teach some of those techniques to a “new” studio singer, they can put them to good use in the future.
 
DrewPeterson7 said:
Don't you mean "station a spit screen splitting the space between our selves and our stations?"
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Sure, I suppose; but since I sensed the posts were strangely silent on the slippery subject of sibilance...

I postulated, Peterson, providing the original post was about the prevention of personal plosives, that it was prudent to provide a prognostication that preferred populating the prose with a preponderance of the letter "P".

Although, as you appropriately assert, I agree that almost any addition of an anomalous or alternative alliterative answer would assuredly have been appropriate also.

G.
 
Post of the year, Glen. Unfortunately I have to spread reputation around.
 
I always thought you should saw the mic in half (vertically) and let the plosive air pass through between the two halves. Have I been doing it wrong? :eek:
 
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