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Gear / Technical Help => Microphones & Setup => Topic started by: Phil Zone on June 05, 2013, 08:29:47 AM
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Hi everyone,
I'm looking for your opinion for the best mic setups, for indoor and outdoor. What it's your favorites, xy side by side or anything else?
Thanks
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Hi ckeough. What microphones are you using? Are you going to be using those microphones on a stand? What type of venues will you be recording in? Is your goal to have a life like sound stage or just a decent recording to remember the show by?
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I have them on a 10 ft stand indoors mostly they are samson cl2 cards, and I want the best recording possible. I will be at the gathering if the vibes, which is outside, so what would you sugest for those two types of events? And usually I hang out in the tapersection for the shows.
Thanks
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Many of us get good results with DIN (20cm and 90 degrees) indoors and outdoors.
I've never liked the X/Y configuration, as I like more air in the recordings than that configuration provides.
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I'm with Chuck. I'll also suggest ORTF (110 degrees, 17cm) which I tend to prefer over DIN if the room sounds good and you can put the mics where you'd like them, which tends to be closer than the offical taper's section, even on-stage for some things. It can work well outside from farther back too. DIN can be a better choice in less ideal situations (farther back, less than ideal rooms, etc) partly because the mics are facing more towards the source and that configuration is slightly less sensitive to off-axis sound arriving from behind.
The relationship between microphone pair spacing and angle is inversely related. If you take a look at the two configurations we've suggested, DIN is spaced a bit more with less angle between mics and ORTF is spaced less with more angle. Both are simply two fixed configurations along a continuum which runs from X/Y with the mics facing 180 degrees apart to A-B spaced a few feet apart with both mics facing directly forward (you can go wider than that too, which you'd usually only want to do with omnidirectional mics). If you are interested in how that all works, check out the threads here which discuss the Stereo Zoom, a technique for determining any spacing and angle.