On Jun 29, 6:03*am, Ty Ford wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:45:57 -0400, Fran Guidry wrote
(in article
):
http://www.homebrewedmusic.com/2009/...on-a-tutorial/
"For straight mic comparisons, I like to position the guitar about 32? from
the mics. This avoids proximity effect and hopefully presents a fully
developed guitar sound to the mics, instead of one mic picking up the neck of
the guitar while another picks up the bridge."
Fran,
At 32" the room comes into play in a major way. If the room is not really
wonderful, you're recordings won't be.
At 32", differentiating a good mic from a bad mic is very difficult because
there's too much room sound. I've got what some folks say is a pretty good
sounding room and I don't think I've ever had a mic that far away from a
guitar.
Proximity effect is not a bad thing, it's just a thing. If it's too much, you
have to reposition the mic.
On this cut --http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWaPRHMGhGA
Where's the Schoeps? Sitting on the sofa arm; a lot closer than 32"
On this one --http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2IMIP8drZo
I'm using a TLM 103 aimed back across the face. You can see it when I pull
back. This guitar has a slightly muted sound, so I used the brighter TLM 103
to brighten it a bit.
Both tracks have reverb added
Here's what I've found with acoustic guitars. Each one projects a lobe or
lobes of sound from the face. Stick a finger in one ear and move your other
ears around from about two feet while the player is playing the guitar. When
you find the lobe, stick a mic there and fine tune by positioning.
Regards,
Ty Ford
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Guitar player?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWaPRHMGhGA
Hey, Ty, I've been sampling your Vimeo channel, nice stuff.
I probably mis-estimated the distance, and in any case usually record
somewhat closer when I'm tracking rather than comparing mics. But here
I'm trying to give each mic the "same" source for some value of
"same." I fear that when I get too close the non-uniform radiation of
the instrument will add an uncontrolled variable to the comparison.
Fran