Microphones and Recording! - Posted on 2017-03-21 by Danielle

This is a concise review of some of the information I learned about Microphones and Microphone Placement 

Hope you find it helpful!! :)

One piece of information that I learned about was something called summing to mono to check for phase issues. This is something I would like to try someday in the studio to find out how it actually works! According to an advice article on soundonsound.com: (http://www.soundonsound.com/sound-advice/q-how-does-summing-mono-work)

"Summing to mono just means feeding both channels of your stereo mix (left and right) to both of your speakers, rather than just feeding one signal to each speaker."

One way to do this would be to insert a 'mono?ising' plug?in of some kind into your master bus, which you can pop in and out of bypass mode. 

One elegant option for this is available as freeware from Brainworx in the form of their bx_solo plug?in, although you might also want to look at Flux Audio's freeware Stereo Tool, because it has a nice vectorscope display.

Thanks for reading!!!