Move the Microphone Before You Buy Another Plugin

Making a Scene Presents - Move the Microphone Before You Buy Another Plugin The Science of Microphone Placement and Better Guitar and Vocal Recordings How distance, angle, reflections, and a little understanding of acoustics can transform your recordings without transforming your home studio into another expensive equipment collection. There is a peculiar ritual that takes place in home recording studios all over the world. A musician records an acoustic guitar, listens to the playback, and decides the instrument sounds too muddy. The next hour is spent searching through equalizers, downloading compressor presets, watching videos about expensive microphones, and wondering whether the audio interface needs to be upgraded. Eventually, the musician considers buying another microphone because the internet has suggested that the current one might not be professional enough. Meanwhile, the microphone is sitting six inches from the soundhole, patiently recording exactly the muddy sound it was asked to capture. http://www.makingascene.org