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by Professor
Thu Feb 05, 2009 5:18 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: recording a high school choir, orchestra, and a jazz band
Replies: 14
Views: 3821

That's a really great post from dwlb up there. I'm going to add a little, but not much, because if I were going to claim any particular specialty or area of expertise around here, it would be the kind of recording you are about to do. The balance of Direct vs. Reflected sound is indeed something we ...
by Professor
Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:22 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Modifying Consumer EQ to reduce hum.
Replies: 15
Views: 6344

I'm a little confused at where the device is plugging into your signal path. Are you using the effects loop from an amplifier so that the "effects send out" connects into the EQ and then the EQ output returns to the "effects return input" (or however they might be labeled? Or is this something you'r...
by Professor
Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:10 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Room treatment by Friday
Replies: 12
Views: 4871

I know you already mentioned a dislike for fiberglass, but there's really no denying that it is the most effective for sound and cost that you're going to see. One of the best simple applications I've seen for it was in a demo room at a shop I worked at in Denver years ago. Bats of fiberglass were t...
by Professor
Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:56 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Science vs Magic
Replies: 18
Views: 5363

Yeah, I guess it is fair to mention Clarke's third law... Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I'm sure from reading many of my posts that it probably seems like I must be one of those guys who is edlessly checking & rechecking the microphones with rulers and protrac...
by Professor
Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:11 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Science vs Magic
Replies: 18
Views: 5363

That's an interesting observation and a pretty good statement on recreating the past in any sort of way, not just your own music. I'm sure there are plenty of guys who would be quick to jump on the 'analog vs. digital' thing, but that's like saying what made the 2-week college road trip from ten yea...
by Professor
Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:57 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: how do you stay focused on records that take forever?
Replies: 16
Views: 5081

I just finished one last week that was started 1.5 years ago and was only really worked on every six months or so when the artist was visiting here from Italy. This time we were determined to finish the project before he split which meant somewhere between 150-200 hours crammed into the 3 weeks from...
by Professor
Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:29 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Acoustic Guitar and Stand-up Bass w/ bow in a Bathroom
Replies: 15
Views: 4299

Hmm, never tried my 4061 as overheads, but I suppose they would work. I tried sticking one inside the vent hole on a sealed bass drum once and it didn't work out at all. I do use them inside my 9-foot piano at the studio when I have to do a lid-closed recording because of other instruments in the ro...
by Professor
Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:10 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Three Coincident Overheads
Replies: 26
Views: 8849

Yeah, there always seems to be a lot of confusion out there about the 3:1 rule because it's very rarely described well or correctly online, in print, or even in most classrooms. I've typed descriptions here several times already, but I know they tend to fall way back into the depths of old threads, ...
by Professor
Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:08 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Acoustic Guitar and Stand-up Bass w/ bow in a Bathroom
Replies: 15
Views: 4299

An XY pair with the B&K omnis won't work because omnis don't work for an XY pair - you need directional mics so you have a volume difference for what is on-axis to one mic and off-axis to the other. And as it happens, I was thinking of the e609 and not the e602. One of the really big drawbacks to pu...
by Professor
Mon Feb 02, 2009 6:50 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Acoustic Guitar and Stand-up Bass w/ bow in a Bathroom
Replies: 15
Views: 4299

From what I've seen & heard, the most common mistake people tend to make with very reverberant spaces is that they immediately reach for the omni mics and tend to put them further away in the room than they should be placed. I'm guessing the reason you're interested in using the bathroom is that it'...
by Professor
Thu Jan 29, 2009 7:00 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Stereo DI w/ pad - for a weird mic!
Replies: 10
Views: 2401

I don't think a DI is what you are looking for. It sounds like the outputs from the B&K power supply are at line-level, the same as the output from any standard piece of audio gear. DI boxes are for moving instrument level (musical instrument, not scientific instrument) to mic level. Have you tried ...
by Professor
Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:24 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Three Coincident Overheads
Replies: 26
Views: 8849

Regarding the M-50 mic, it is a spherical omni capsule, meaning that the diaphragm is kind of like a flat spot on the side of an otherwise smooth sphere. BLUE is now making a capsule like that, Neumann still makes that capsule design in the current M-150 and you can get add-on spheres for SDC omnis ...
by Professor
Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:36 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: xy capsule positioning?
Replies: 10
Views: 3025

Why the hell is it called xy? Paging the professor, paging the professor Yo! I have to admit that on the history of the name I've never heard or read any kind of explanation and I never really cared enough to go find one. My best guess would be that Alan Blumlein named it when he patented everythin...
by Professor
Thu Jan 29, 2009 3:58 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Mic pres with 70db+ gain range
Replies: 32
Views: 12172

I have to agree with Joel on this one, you might not be able to use the ribbons on really quiet sources. When I place ribbon mics on toms or in front of trumpets, trombones, saxes or guitar amps I can get away with the preamps on the Yamaha console to deliver the 20-40dB of gain I might need. But as...
by Professor
Thu Jan 29, 2009 3:11 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Three Coincident Overheads
Replies: 26
Views: 8849

We should probably clear up a few things here real quick... First up, if the mics are placed in a coincident array then there would be no phasing concerns. Phasing (of this type) happens when the sound of an instrument (one of the drums) reaches two or more mics at different times. If the mics are i...