
Uladine
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I've heard rumors of this techinique but always scoffed at it and said "aww humbug." But in the latest issue of electronic musician there is an article about getting big bottoms on your recordings ans a couple of engineers descirbe how they use woofers from NS10 monitors to mic bass cabs and kick drums.
They say you can take a raw frame woofer, somehow attach it to a snare drum stand or suspend it from the lugs of a bass drum and use it it cunjunction with another mic to capture more low end. This way instead of eqing the main kick mic for more low end you could just add more "woofer mic". Apparently the larger the diameter of the diaphragm the more low end.
They take a mic or instrument cable and wire one end to the leads of the speaker and connect the plug to a mixer or preamp. They say the signal isnt too strong but gets the job done.
Anyone ever try this? Thoughts? I was thinking of using one of my brothers old car subwoofers for experimentation but I dont want to hurt my mixer.
They say you can take a raw frame woofer, somehow attach it to a snare drum stand or suspend it from the lugs of a bass drum and use it it cunjunction with another mic to capture more low end. This way instead of eqing the main kick mic for more low end you could just add more "woofer mic". Apparently the larger the diameter of the diaphragm the more low end.
They take a mic or instrument cable and wire one end to the leads of the speaker and connect the plug to a mixer or preamp. They say the signal isnt too strong but gets the job done.
Anyone ever try this? Thoughts? I was thinking of using one of my brothers old car subwoofers for experimentation but I dont want to hurt my mixer.