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Mic placement Posted on 2017-02-14 by Priscilla Colon

  1. ____________________is the distance miking technique that captures the most direct sound.  
    Your Answer: Close Miking
  2. ____________________picks up more room sound than direct sound.  
    Your Answer: Ambient Miking
  3. ____________________gives an engineer a supplemental recording to boost a given instrument in the mix.  
    Your Answer: Accent Miking
  4. ____________________ gives sounds time to develop and captures more room sound than close miking.  
    Your Answer: Distant Miking
  5. ___________________ refers to any pair of microphones spaced at any distance.  
    Your Answer: Spaced Pair
  6. The ___________________ configuration uses two matched cardioid microphones the heads nearly together at 90 degree angles.  
    Your Answer: XY
  7. The ___________________ is almost identical to the X-Y technique with one variation - two bi-directional mics are used at 90 degree angles.  
    Your Answer: Blumlein Pair
  8. The ___________________ technique involves placing a cardioid mic facing the sound source and a bi-directional mic is placed perpendicular to the cardioid mic.  
    Your Answer: Mid-Side
  9. The ___________________ configuration uses 3 cardioid microphones facing left, right and centre which are then panned to match their configuration.  
    Your Answer: Decca Tree
  10. Using an ________________ Bass Guitars and Guitars can be recorded with more flavor than DI boxes.  
    Your Answer: Direct Box 
    Incorrect: Correct Answer is Amplifier
  11. Miking an acoustic guitar near the _________________ may result in too much low end.  
    Your Answer: Sound hole
  12. _________________ mics are generally speaking the most rugged type of microphone design.  
    Your Answer: Dynamic
  13. To capture the harsh smack of a snare drum a ________________ mic should be used.  
    Your Answer: Dynamic
  14. To cleanly capture the detail of a hi-hat, a __________________ mic should be used.  
    Your Answer: Condenser
  15. The more distant stereo pairs are from each other the ______________ their stereo image will be.  
    Your Answer: Wider

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-I learned the different types of mics: condesnor, dynamic, and ribbon. Also how each of them work and which mic is good for different types of instruments.

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