Re: [LAU] Looking for voice recording suggestions

On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 23:10:27 +0000, Will Godfrey wrote: ^ ^opaque Don't care too much about all those angles you should avoid to the walls. For testing purpose listen in another room using headphones, if you should notice an unwanted comb filter effect, just change the up/down angle to the floor. The opaque nylon stocking is only needed for single speakers/singers very close to the microphone, even a few thin layers of a tissue wrapped around the microphone and fixed with an elastic band could do the job. There is only one rule, you need to care about when doing your very first recording of that kind. Test listen in another room using headphones, due to the short blanket syndrome you can't fix what is going wrong in the first place, by using de-essing, filtering hum and other noise. How to place a group of speakers/singers depends on the kind of microphone, since you only own one microphone, you only could do tests by listening via headphones in another room and try to get the best out of this microphone. The only thing you really need is a parametric EQ. Perhaps you need low and high shelving filters and maybe compression, too. It is very unlikely that your microphone is kind of a special microphone, such as one with omnidirectional characteristic, so giving advices how to use such microphones doesn't make sense. Most beginner's microphones are cardioid. Tell the people that they are not allowed to touch the microphone, e.g. not to turn it off and on by a switch that some microphones do have. Often amateur singers/speakers think they help the engineer by e.g. turning the microphone off and on, helping to fix the position etc., but you should be the only one testing different positions of the microphone, to become aware how the quality of the recording does change, when changing the position.