Topic: hyper question

[Lee]

So I was taping an opening band tonight at sloss furnaces here in Birmingham and the amount of chatty people behind the stand annoyed me, and was only accentuated by the rear lobe in the hypercardiod pattern I was running.  

Here's my question: has anyone tried to take the rear lobe out of play using a some sort of baffle?  Think mics set up with a J-disc or something behind them to absorb the sound coming from the rear of the mic.  Seems like it would work, but I'm wondering if it would have any consequences to the overall sound of the recording.  Would there be any noticeable difference (save the desired effect of no rear-of-mic chatter)?

I'm interested to hear if anyone has tried this in a club-type situation where you have to run hypers to clean up the shitty room but also want to cut out idiots making noise behind you.  Opinions needed, fire away!

[creekfreak]

that would work some. I was using my hypers up close once, but the acoustics of the room where horrible. had a ceiling support that hung down low and blocked the back of the mics completly and killed all chatter from behind.....this one place I tape in Rochester has a pool table directly behind the SBD where I set up my mics. During quiet passages you can hear the balls rolling around and breaks happening, sounds pretty cool.

[zhianosatch]

of course, you could use em at a metal show where he fans are respectful!
hehe

[rabhan]

use a 10" metal pipe and camel wack them across the foreheads!

[danmorgan]

use a 10" metal pipe and camel wack them across the foreheads!

Now that would be effective...

[Tim]

of course, you could use em at a metal show where he fans are respectful!
hehe

of course that would mean that he would have to listen to metal....

[zhianosatch]

c'mon, it'll put hair on his chest

[Lee]

glad this thread has been so productive.

So what I'm getting is I need to smack some metalheads with a nightstick, right?