Recording Vocals
Male bass voice has a range from E2 to D4 (82 Hz to 293 Hz) with harmonics up to 12 kHz.
Upper soprano can reach up to 1050 Hz with similar harmonics.
- Condensers vs dynamics; some singers with thinner voices benefit from the Read more
Drum-Kit Miking
1. X/Y Pair Overheads
- Condensers, preferably Read more
Achieve fast trigger on kick drum with hardware gates
If you’re tired of slow reaction times of hardware gates chopping off the transients on your kick drum try this.. Set up 2 microphones on your kick drum. One right behind the skin were the beater hits and the other one in a sweet spot with a lot of low end. This could even be outside of the kick drum itself. Make a signal split of your mic which sits just behind the beater and use the side-chain input of the gate for the low-end "sweet spot" mic. Set the attack time as low as you can. This assures, due to the speed of sound, that the reaction time is faster and you get more transient signal for your sweet spot mic. Now, take out all the lows and low-mids of the "trigger" microphone behind the beater and balance that with the low-end mic for a nice punchy Metal Kick Drum.
