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Best way to mike for room ambience in surround
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Carey Carlan
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"Arny Krueger" wrote in news:GMWdndT0zNMhox7fRVn-
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I've also used spaced omnis, spaced cardioids, X-Y cardioids
and X-Y hypercardiods.
The spaced mic approaches get you the expected phasy sort of
sound, while the coincident techniques provide more focus.
Go out in the hall and find the spot or spots where the sound is near what
you want. If an omni sounds good there, use it. Omni's do great ambience.
If the sound is still too direct, cup your hands behind your ear and face
the sides or the back of the room. If you find a direction that gives you
the sound you like, point a pair of directional (probably cardioid) mics
that way.
If you can't find a natural ambience you like, place a single omni out in
the "fuzziest" part of the room away from transient sources and feed that
into a reverb unit. Synthetic reverb only requires one channel of input.
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