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 Canon  60D battery In the space exactly where the musicians are 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 Canon 550D Battery panning of one's two 'side channels, making 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!