I have read up on mic spacing and angles and have x/y down but that is about it. I would like to try out some new configurations this summer and the best help i have found is from other tapers at shows. I find it very confusing to try and figure out some diffrent configs with the TL's and the akg bar. I also have the shure bar but with these mics nothing seems correct. Even when i look at dpa or any of the other sources from diffrent configs nothing seems correct with the TL's. I haven't been taping that long and would like to hear what my mics can sound like without being in x/y. I'm sure this isn't an easy thing to explain or maybe i'm just not seeing what i'm supposed to. Thanks for any help you can give.
try this site...
http://homepage.mac.com/gottajiboo40/Menu10.html
yessir, what he said... a favorite of mine is DIN, just a suggestion for one of those pick from and mess around with
travis
Awesome page! Does anyone have anything like that setup for smaller diaphram mics, like the MC012s?
so how do you measure the angle? I have pieces that are 17,20,30 cm
Scuba - http://www.taperssection.com/yabbse/index.php?board=20;action=display;threadid=12241;start=msg149732#msg149732
Great website. I dont do enough with different patterns esp since I got my tl's
Quote from: SpeshulEd on April 20, 2004, 05:59:21 AM
try this site...
http://homepage.mac.com/gottajiboo40/Menu10.html
Then neumann site was great. Thanks for the links, can't wait to try out some diffrent configs
+T for everyone. Thanks for the links and the helpful info.
Quote from: twoodruff on April 20, 2004, 03:21:19 PM
so how do you measure the angle? I have pieces that are 17,20,30 cm
I also have pieces of those lengths, but a good way for me of figuring out angles is to start at 90* and eyeball it. Even if you're not dead on 80* or 110* etc... that's the part of experimentation that makes for great tapes, IMO
travis
do you measure from the center if the cap
Yes.
Awesome, +T for the link, and I have to go back and +T Mr. pnobles as well for making those pretty pictures. I still need to go out and get me one of those vert. bars....
http://www.dpamicrophones.com/eng_pub/MicUni/131.html
Quote from: SpeshulEd on April 20, 2004, 05:59:21 AM
try this site...
http://homepage.mac.com/gottajiboo40/Menu10.html
Awesome site- thanks dude!
+t
To add to the original question, and of course, I know the answers aren't really simple, but what do you use to decide which config to use?
I tape mostly in crappy bars w/ poor room acoustics and/or poor sounds systems, so I usually use the Hyper config on my TL's, and I have read that XY will limit the boominess, so I have pretty much been using that exclusively.
I am wondering though- what are the criteria that one would use in deciding to run DIN or ORTF instead of XY?
I am also always afraid of making a recording that blows too...
Do you think that, overall, the differences are subtle? If so, I might not need to worry so much about not pulling a crappy tape...
Does the physical height of the mic matter when using DIN or ORTF? All I have is a vert bar, and I can approximate thes configs with the vert bar, but one mic is a little higher than the other... is this problematic?
Quote from: Moke on April 22, 2004, 08:38:04 PM
nope
flip flop the mounts, and the different pieces of the shure bar, and you can get them very close to right on in height. But, to your question,..... A little difference between the height of the mics won't matter.
Yeah, that's what I did, got them as close as possible!
Appreciate the help yet again!
+T