what is dark? hi-pass filter?

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Henry you have so many mics it's a wonder you dont find it.

Pick the purple everytime!!!!!!!!

My mics so bright i have to wear shades and a low pass filter doesnt help.
 
kip4 said:
Henry you have so many mics it's a wonder you dont find it.

Pick the purple everytime!!!!!!!!

My mics so bright i have to wear shades and a low pass filter doesnt help.
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I'm beginning to pick up on the lingo and am wondering if there is secret handshake I need to learn?:cool:
 
kip4 said:
Henry you have so many mics it's a wonder you dont find it.

Pick the purple everytime!!!!!!!!

My mics so bright i have to wear shades and a low pass filter doesnt help.
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Ha! Yes your right. Can't swing the cat around the room without hitting and knocking over a few dozen. :D
 
I paint all my mics with that glow-in-the-dark stuff and I've got 6000 watt light bulbs (compact florescent, of course - to save the environment) that I leave on all day with the mics underneath. Then, late at night after the kids have gone to bed, I have a dance party and use the mics as glowsticks.
 
Also join the ministery of silly walks if you want to get ahead.
 
lol that's funny, but seriously,

I think you may be misquoting them... perhaps they said it was "dark, on the low side"? To me that would mean that it didn't capture the highs very well... Anyway, your high-pass or low cut is easily set by setting the cut close to the frequency of the lowest note of the song. E3 = 164.81Hz. Dig? Here's a chart: www . phy.mtu.edu/~suits/notefreqs. html Frequencies of Musical Notes[/url] I'd probably use a more "lemmony pancake" mic with a bit of "staunch ice shaving" if that's what you're looking for... sort of like a lemon ice shave eaten too fast kind of mic with the purple flan rolled off with a deflanger... just kidding. But for brightening the sound of a mic (if you don't have something else to use), just use a gentle EQ curve in post (in addition to the low cut) - subtract lows or add highs, up to you. If you're totally lost, or if you don't trust your monitors, do an A/B Mash. Put a song from a commercial CD of the same genre in your mix and play your vocal and it together. You will immediately know where you stand. If you can tell them apart, that's bad. If it sounds like a real mess, that's good.
 
Oh no....frequency charts. Next comes a Hitler reference, then kcearl and miro fight for 11 pages.
 
Another possibility is to watch a graph to see the lowest note and do your low cut based on that. but still, It's best to get used to hearing it. The main idea is to keep from having your amp wasting a bunch of power making your woofers dance with vibrations you can't even hear. I spoke with a legendary engineer (he recorded The Rolling Stones, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and many others) who said he cuts everything below 100. I wouldn't use the low cut to function as an EQ shaper. Assuming that you're recording vocals, I'd do a low cut first, then a de-esser, then shape the EQ. Anyway, that's what Hitler always said... or was it KC Earl? Gotta go, I've got to post a few meaningless but enticing threads so that my numbers will go up. That's what life is really, really, all about. Also, I'd like to get to 10 posts so I can send url's. Oh the overwhelming sense of power!
 
imnotdeafyet said:
I think you may be misquoting them... perhaps they said it was "dark, on the low side"? To me that would mean that it didn't capture the highs very well... Anyway, your high-pass or low cut is easily set by setting the cut close to the frequency of the lowest note of the song. E3 = 164.81Hz. Dig? Here's a chart: www . phy.mtu.edu/~suits/notefreqs. html Frequencies of Musical Notes[/url] I'd probably use a more "lemmony pancake" mic with a bit of "staunch ice shaving" if that's what you're looking for... sort of like a lemon ice shave eaten too fast kind of mic with the purple flan rolled off with a deflanger... just kidding. But for brightening the sound of a mic (if you don't have something else to use), just use a gentle EQ curve in post (in addition to the low cut) - subtract lows or add highs, up to you. If you're totally lost, or if you don't trust your monitors, do an A/B Mash. Put a song from a commercial CD of the same genre in your mix and play your vocal and it together. You will immediately know where you stand. If you can tell them apart, that's bad. If it sounds like a real mess, that's good.
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Can I misquote you on "lemmony ice shaving"? Thanks for the reply and I think you are right about the misquote.
 
I'd be proud to be misquoted by any of the esteemed members here.
 
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