Positioning the microphone
Drums
Position | Resulting sound | Commentary |
| More fundamental | Position on the drum: |
| tone, | |
| little overtones | batter head, the |
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| fundamental tone to |
| Less fundamental | overtones ratio can be |
| adjusted via the angle. | |
| tone, | The most balanced |
| many overtones | results are obtained at |
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| an angle of |
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| Use of a second 904 |
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| for picking up the |
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| resonant head and |
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| the snares. If necessary, |
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| activate phase reversing |
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| for one of the |
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| microphones. |
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. 180°).
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