Saturday 27 April 2013

X-Y Microphone Positioning

Hi and my apologies for not being on here more than promised, but I do also feel you can blog too much right?
I just wanted to go over with you about simple mic placement techniques. Sometimes it can be very easy to close mic everything to cover all bases, which I have been known to do but then only use a handful when it came to mix down. Drums are a great example of this, I’ve recorded some great drums with just 3 microphones. Kick-Snr-Oh or Kick - X-Y position.

Simply by getting yourself in front of the source material, moving yourself about a bit to find the sweet spot then you’re onto picking the right microphones. The right microphones are for another blog altogether. You should be picking microphones dependent on the variables that are created by the instrument. Nylon strings, skin thickness (on drums) to tuning to name but a few all toss up different variables in which picking the right microphones are key.



Here's two examples of X-Y mic position on two different guitars (make sure you check phasing before recording) First of all on an amazing classical guitarist by the name of Craig Ogen. Which you'l be able to see the video at www.classicfm.com and hear at 100.6 to 100.9fm.


Here's Luke Sital Singh an amazing vocalist and player in session with me for John Kennedy on xfm. You'll be able to hear this session in the coming weeks on Xfm 104.9fm DAB and online at www.xfm.co.uk



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Wednesday 20 February 2013

Steel Drum Mic Combo

Here's what I used for Fimber Bravo's Steel drum - Sennheiser MD421 With a Calrec CM 1051c - Great Blend