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spent experimenting. They work well in many cases,
but if you don’t like the results, feel free to change the
microphone or its placement.
If pickup of room reverberation, leakage, or feedback
is excessive, place the mic closer than recommended
below, and roll off the bass if necessary at your mixer
to obtain a natural timbre.
For example, suppose you’re miking a folk singer
playing a guitar. If you want to control the balance
between voice and guitar with mixer volume controls,
you must mike the singer and guitar up close to
isolate their sounds. This placement often results in a
bassy tone quality. So you’ll have to roll off some bass
at your mixer until the sound is natural.
Many of the techniques suggested here apply when
the instrument or voice is recorded alone, as for an
overdub.
Vocal
• Place a CM-700, CM-150, or GLM-100 8 inches
away at eye height to avoid breath pops. Use the
foam pop filter.
• To record a singer/guitarist, mike the singer with a
CM-200A up close. Use the foam pop filter. Put
another mic on the guitar, aiming down away from
the mouth. Or record the guitar first, then overdub
the vocal with a CM-700.
• Place a CM-700, CM-150, or GLM-100 6 to 12 inches
from where the finger board joins the body (Figure
3). For stereo, add another mic the same distance
from the bridge.
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Acoustic guitar
• Attach a GLM-100 to the guitar soundboard,
halfway between the bridge and the sound hole,
near the low E string (Figure 3).
Sax
• Place a CM-700, CM-150, or GLM-100 18 inches
away, a few inches above the bell, toward the player’s
right side (Figure 4).
Electric guitar or bass
Recorded Direct:
• For a clean sound, plug the guitar into a direct box
and from there into a mixer mic input. For a distorted
sound, plug into a guitar signal processor, then into a
mixer line input.
Electric guitar amp
• Place a CM-200A 1 to 12 inches from the center of one
of the speaker cones. For more bass, place the mic close.
For the brightest tone, place the mic near the center of
the speaker cone. For a mellower tone, place the mic
near the edge of the speaker cone (Figure 5).
• Tape the cable of a GLM-100 to the grille cloth in
front of a speaker cone. A mic placement at the
center of the cone sounds bright; a placement near
the edge of the cone sounds more mellow.