3:55 AM - Brickhouse Records Presents Stereo microphone methods - Mid-side
Stereo microphone recording has numerous utilizes for music
projects. The number one cause to make use of a stereo recording
method would be to produce an correct 'stereo image,' or mental
picture of the soundspace. When listeners hear your recordings,
they will have the ability to expertise the sensation that they're
sitting
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recording. Mid-side recording is not probably the most widely
recognized method, but it can create Powerful manage of your
imaging effects to get a wide selection of purposes. It's most
generally applied to smaller scale setups, i.e. not generally for
choirs or classical ensembles.
Mid-side is accomplished with two microphones and 3 recording
channels. You will need a microphone with a figure-8
(bi-directional) pickup pattern along with a microphone having a
cardioid pickup pattern. Some high quality microphones with
cardioid patterns include the Shure SM57, AKG C414, Neumann M147,
and Sennheiser MD 421. Bi-directional microphones come in numerous
flavors but one from the most flexible will be the AKG C414, which
has adjustable pickup patterns.
To prepare for your recording, you will need to arrange your
cardioid microphone so the front from the mic is pointed straight
at your source and the figure-8 is turned 90 away from your source.
This detail is extremely important, simply because a distinctive
aspect of figure-8 microphones is that the space on either side of
mic,
where the arrows are pointing above, is a null area for
sound, meaning the two sides of the mic that pic up sound are well
isolated from one an additional and from other sources. This
microphone controls the width of image ultimately and should be
placed as close as possible to the cardioid mic. Typically it's
placed straight underneath the cardioid microphone. Inevitably, for
many microphones to be that close to one an additional, one of them
will have to be inverted because most mic capsules are in the
leading of the microphone.
When you setup your recording, duplicate the figure-8 channel
and invert the phase (polarity) of one of the channels, this will
give you the sound from each lobes. If you're ding it in Pro Tools,
open a Trim plug-in on every of the two side channels and on one of
them, click the symbol that looks like this: . To mix your
recording, adjust the
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certain they're evenly spaced. As you pan further left or correct,
you widen the stereo image, and can do this lengthy after your
tracking session, in contrast to many other methods!