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Microphone Techniques: Essentials

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Learn essential microphone techniques. Explore the most common mic types, applications, and patterns—so that you can make the right choice for your specific recording situation.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • About this course
  • About the example files
1. Microphone Fundamentals
  • Mic storage
  • Commercial studio acoustics
  • Acoustic control
  • The importance of monitors
  • Live sound mic considerations
  • Presentation and wireless mic considerations
  • Frequency ranges and transients
  • Assess mics for tone and transients
  • Frequency response and handling noise
  • Recording practices, stands, and bags
2. Operating Principles
  • Intro to operating principles
  • Transducers
  • Sound waves
  • Sympathetic vibration
  • Dynamic moving-coil capsule
  • Physically shaping the pickup pattern
  • Condenser operating principle
  • Electret condenser
  • Pattern selectors
  • Pads and attenuators
  • High-pass filters
  • Ribbon operating principle
3. Understanding Mic Specs
  • Reading the frequency response chart
  • The proximity effect
  • Evaluating the Neumann KM 84 and KM 184
  • Evaluating the Shure SM58
  • Evaluating the Royer R-122 MKII
  • Evaluating the Audix D6
  • Evaluating the Shure Beta 87
  • Blind evaluations of three mics
  • Polar graphs and sensitivity
  • Polar pattern shapes
  • Demonstration of polar patterns
  • Frequency variations
  • Sensitivity
  • Impedance
  • Equivalent noise
  • Maximum sound pressure level (SPL)

Taught by

Bill Gibson

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