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May 7th The Most important piece of equipment. Posted on 2014-05-15 by Thomas White

On May seventh, Uncle Joey and I toched on the chapter that revolved around microphones. The piece of equipment that adds to the sound of an artist as well as seperates their sound, with all the diffrent types of mics from Dynamic mics Condenser mics to Ribbon mics they all have a certain job that they are meant for. For example dynamic mics are more for instrumentaion or a live sound even, because its able to pick up many specific sounds going on weather you have a drummer and also wanna hear a sax player you can pick up both instruments compared to just one. This is because of the diaphram that sits inside the mic it has a wide pattern which pics up all sounds(Omnidirectional). Compared to the Condenser mic that you will really only find in a studio enviorment because it's design to capture that only one sound, which is the artist who has a softer tone to his/her voice. With ribbon mic they are bidirectional so they pick up sounds in the front and the back these are usually mics that are hanging above your head. They are really good for trying to hear sounds bouncing off of the walls, and used for horns or classical intruments. A tip I learned was that foam in vocal booths are used to reduce reverb, the reason for not wanting reverb in the recording is because we want to just capture the sound the artist is looking for, not pick up everything thats going on in the room.

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May 7th The Most important piece of equipment. Posted by Thomas White on 2014-05-15

On May seventh, Uncle Joey and I toched on the chapter that revolved around microphones. The piece of equipment that adds to the sound of an artist as well as seperates their sound, with all the diffrent types of mics from Dynamic mics Condenser mics to Ribbon mics they all have a certain job that they are meant for... Read More >>