Fig 8s.... Is this a phase I am going through?
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 9:04 pm
I have been recording a singer-songwriter project in the studio. The premise of the project is to track completely live no overdubs.
I decided to use two ribbon microphones, and exploit their figure 8 patterns.
By placing the null points of the microphones towards the guitar and vocals respectively, I was I was able to obtain fantastic isolation in each of the tracks.
I needed to apply some EQ to the tracks in particular the acoustic guitar, because of the bottom end that was present. I spent a great deal of time positioning both microphones as to minimise the effects of phase cancellation in each of the tracks.
As soon as I would insert an EQ on the acoustic guitar track, for instance, and adjusted it i would notice phasing become present in the vocal.
After much mucking about with this, I ended up overcoming the problem by applying the EQ on the stereo bus.
My theory was that I was able to eliminate phase issues because EQ is being applied equally to the vocal and guitar at the same time.
How do you guys handle the singer-songwriter approach regards to phase when using using two microphones and needing EQ?
( on a side note this message is being posted by me dictating into Siri on my iPad, What a brave new world we live in)
I decided to use two ribbon microphones, and exploit their figure 8 patterns.
By placing the null points of the microphones towards the guitar and vocals respectively, I was I was able to obtain fantastic isolation in each of the tracks.
I needed to apply some EQ to the tracks in particular the acoustic guitar, because of the bottom end that was present. I spent a great deal of time positioning both microphones as to minimise the effects of phase cancellation in each of the tracks.
As soon as I would insert an EQ on the acoustic guitar track, for instance, and adjusted it i would notice phasing become present in the vocal.
After much mucking about with this, I ended up overcoming the problem by applying the EQ on the stereo bus.
My theory was that I was able to eliminate phase issues because EQ is being applied equally to the vocal and guitar at the same time.
How do you guys handle the singer-songwriter approach regards to phase when using using two microphones and needing EQ?
( on a side note this message is being posted by me dictating into Siri on my iPad, What a brave new world we live in)