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How y’all doing out there in the land of Ooo… srry for the dearth of new ‘content’ lately; it’s been v v busy here at PS dot com HQ. Anyhow, I recently came across an interesting article in an old issue of DB magazine concerning distant-mic’ing. The authors are Roger Anderson and Robert Schulein; you can download it here:
DOWNLOAD: Distant_Micing
Essentially, the concept is that best-results with distant-mic’ing are obtained when the microphone is as close to the most prominent boundary (in most cases, the studio floor) as possible.
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To me this looks precisely like the idea behind the surface boundary microphones? Am I missing something here?
Yes, that is true. What I found interesting is that by using this technique, ANY mic can essentially take on that characteristic.
Ever try the EV Mike Mouse?
http://www.electrovoice.com/downloadfile.php?i=971896
I've seen the engineers at Electrical Audio use two omnis (Altec 150s or Neumann 563s w/ the N55k capsules) as ambient mics on the floor while recording drums.
Here's some photos:
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d30/OOtim/Picture090.jpg
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x180/mitgong/IMG_5274.jpg
Interesting
I usually set Sony c38 on floor up side down
As close as it can get to floor
Usually come out huge bottom end punch.
Its nice to see other parson be interesting in that sound
Including Albini guys.