[Nate Najar]

i had easter dinner with my parents last night and commented to my
father on how I am experimenting with this new microphone to record my
classical guitar in live performance. I'm trying out the dpa imk4061
with pretty good results. I'm trying to find a way to mount it now
that I've found a good position for it, and I wanted Dad's advice to
rig something up. So my last concert was local and my parents were
there- i mentioned "did you see that little black dot attached to the
top of the guitar?" which Dad replied no. so i explained that it was
this little lavalier mic etc.... When I showed him how small it is
his first comment, and he was serious, was "it must not be very good-
i hope it wasn't too expensive."

Then later when I was describing where i want to mount the microphone
he said to drill another hole in the body (there's an endpin for the
passive undersaddle transducer) for the xlr and just mount the mic
inside. he would argue with every excuse I came up with as to why
that ain't happening so finally I said simply "it's not an option,
next suggestion..." Then when he asked if the mic needed to be
oriented a certain direction i told him no- this is an omni
directional mic and this one in particular is omni at all
frequencies. he says "that doesn't make sense- i know what
omnidirectional means but the sound would have to change depending on
where the sound hits it" to which point i said "let's have dessert".

Of course this is the same guy who thinks i'm ridiculous for having
spent as many thousands of dollars on my classical guitar as i did
because sam ash has perfectly fine guitars for $400.

Parents are funny.

Nate