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Gear / Technical Help => Microphones & Setup => Topic started by: Lee on July 25, 2003, 02:36:15 AM

Title: hyper question
Post by: Lee on July 25, 2003, 02:36:15 AM

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!

Title: Re:hyper question
Post by: creekfreak on July 25, 2003, 10:32:08 AM

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.

Title: Re:hyper question
Post by: zhianosatch on July 25, 2003, 08:45:23 PM

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

Title: Re:hyper question
Post by: rabhan on July 26, 2003, 03:44:12 AM

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

Title: Re:hyper question
Post by: danmorgan on July 26, 2003, 10:35:51 AM

Quote from: rabhan on July 26, 2003, 03:44:12 AM

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

Now that would be effective... :smash:

Title: Re:hyper question
Post by: Tim on July 27, 2003, 05:45:54 PM

Quote from: zhianosatch on July 25, 2003, 08:45:23 PM

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....

Title: Re:hyper question
Post by: zhianosatch on July 27, 2003, 09:22:23 PM

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

Title: Re:hyper question
Post by: Lee on July 28, 2003, 04:00:53 AM

glad this thread has been so productive.

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