{"id":5521,"date":"2014-02-24T09:19:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T17:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=5521"},"modified":"2014-02-24T09:19:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T17:19:44","slug":"a-groupnoun-of-microphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/a-groupnoun-of-microphones\/","title":{"rendered":"a groupnoun of microphones"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there isn’t already a group noun for microphones – you know, like murder of ravens, school of fish, and all that – there should be. I propose a silly of microphones<\/em>:<\/p>\n


A Silly of Microphones<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

I had all those wired up at once because we were doing some test recording of Anna<\/a> for flutework on Kitsune at War<\/a>. Despite appearances, the two mics on the far left are quite different to each other, due to their different head capsules having dramatically different pickup patterns.<\/p>\n

The choices coalesced really quickly, as it turned out, because Anna’s metal flute is totally clicky in the keys. Lots of clicking sound, and no way to turn it off.<\/p>\n


Not even when dampened with a shirt. Not even two<\/em> shirts.<\/center><\/p>\n

The funny part is, back when I was trying to get these couple of Octava 012s, I really mostly just wanted the cardioid heads. And one came with that option only. But another ended up having a set of three heads: cardioid, hypercardoid, and omnidirectional. And that’s come back to serve us well now.<\/p>\n

See, most microphones you’ve used have either been omnidirectional (pick up in all directions fairly evenly) or cardioid (pick up in front of the mic in kind of a circular-bubble area in front of the microphone). A hyper<\/em>cardioid mic, though? It’s like a laser beam, or at least this one is. Instead of a circular pickup area, it’s shaped more like a dirigible. And that means you can zoom in on the sound you want, and simply not record<\/em> a surprising loudness of noises coming from shockingly nearby that you don’t<\/em> want.<\/p>\n

Which is why it was a damn good thing I bothered hooking up two versions of that microphone. Otherwise, we’d be looking into rental flutes. But we’re not. Go us.<\/p>\n

eta:<\/b> Over on Dreamwith, Corvi suggests “a Feedback of Microphones<\/a>.” I do like that! But feedback also requires speakers<\/em> – or in extreme cases a turntable – so… hm…<\/p>\n

eta2:<\/b> With 29 more ideas for this from people(!)<\/em>, we decided to make a list and poll, here<\/a>. Look and vote if you want!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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