AA1 - Week 5 - Microphones

For this week we had to do several recordings using different microphones to show mic techniques. I chose to use the AKG condensor mic and the Shure SM58 Dynamic mic. After arriving very early in the morning and after not much sleep, I had quite a bit of trouble sorting out recording. As I decided to record the piano, I had to use the recording space, but I couldn't get the sound from the recording space to the mixer. After an hour of trying different ways around, i decided to send the piano sound to the dead room from the recording space and then to the mixer from there.

I had to do a lot of running back and forth while playing, as I was by myself, which became quite tedious after the first time.

I would ask you to please ignore my skills on the piano (or lack thereof).
I decided not to move the mic around as this was just too much trouble by myself. I simply placed the mics in the lid and let the different patterns do their work.

This first recording was with the AKG in the Cartoid patten.

Listen to it HERE

This second recording is the same mic in the Hyper-Cartoid pattern.

Listen to it HERE

This is once again the AKG, now in the Omni-Directional pattern. With this recording especially you can hear alot more resonance sounds rather than just the piano.

Listen to it HERE

This is the final recording with the AKG, now in the figure 8 pattern.

Listen to it HERE

Finally i used a Dynamic mic, a Shure SM58, which is mainly a vocal mic. As it is usually used for close micing, and I wanted to leave the mic in the same place as the AKG, I simply turned up the trim, and also played a tad louder as well.

Listen to it HERE

Here is a picture of my Pro Tools file, just for your entertainment.








I was interested in these results, as they would be quite useful as a starting point for deciding what pattern or type of microphone to use in different situations.

Peace out yo.