Positioning the microphone
Loudspeaker of a guitar amplifier
Position | Resulting sound | Commentary |
| Many trebles, | Microphone directed |
| aggressive sound | towards the dome of |
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| the loudspeaker. |
Less trebles, more | Good starting position: |
lower mids, | Microphone directed |
smoother sound | towards the middle |
| between dome and |
Balanced, natural | edge of the loud- |
sound | speaker. If necessary, |
| turn the microphone by |
| approx. 30° towards |
| the edge. |
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Less trebles, more | Microphone directed |
lower mids, | towards the edge of |
smoother sound | the loudspeaker. |
In order to prevent interference due to crosstalk between adjacent sound sources, try to position the microphone so that the interfering sound source is located in the angle area of the highest cancellation of the microphone (approx. 135°; see polar diagram)
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