Learn essential microphone techniques. Explore the most common mic types, applications, and patterns—so that you can make the right choice for your specific recording situation.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- About this course
- About the example files
- Mic storage
- Commercial studio acoustics
- Acoustic control
- The importance of monitors
- Live sound mic considerations
- Presentation and wireless mic considerations
- Frequency ranges and transients
- Assess mics for tone and transients
- Frequency response and handling noise
- Recording practices, stands, and bags
- Intro to operating principles
- Transducers
- Sound waves
- Sympathetic vibration
- Dynamic moving-coil capsule
- Physically shaping the pickup pattern
- Condenser operating principle
- Electret condenser
- Pattern selectors
- Pads and attenuators
- High-pass filters
- Ribbon operating principle
- Reading the frequency response chart
- The proximity effect
- Evaluating the Neumann KM 84 and KM 184
- Evaluating the Shure SM58
- Evaluating the Royer R-122 MKII
- Evaluating the Audix D6
- Evaluating the Shure Beta 87
- Blind evaluations of three mics
- Polar graphs and sensitivity
- Polar pattern shapes
- Demonstration of polar patterns
- Frequency variations
- Sensitivity
- Impedance
- Equivalent noise
- Maximum sound pressure level (SPL)
Taught by
Bill Gibson
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