How come whenever I see a recording session in commercial/film whatever it always seems that the condensers for vocals are suspended upside down. I have come up with a few possibilities myself.
1. It helps accentuate certain frequencies.
2. It keeps the stand out of the way so the singer can move or read lyrics below the mic.
3. It is part of the studio 'voodoo' to get people to trust your work because it is visually pleasing and easily recognizable. Otherwise I think you'd get people who say "Well I see it suspended upside down in the movies and on TV, so why don't you do that?"
I'm guessing it's a mix of all, but mostly 2 and 3. What do you think?
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Remy has said that she prefers all her gear to be powered up for
Remy has said that she prefers all her gear to be powered up for at least 20 minutes prior to use. In theory it shouldn't matter but I will power up my condensers and let them warm up too.
I'm not sure this applies to dynamics since no P48 would be applied. The caps in your sound board however...
Tube gear definitely requires warmup time to settle in. Remy's
Tube gear definitely requires warmup time to settle in. Remy's contention is that all electronics do better with warmup. Even though I can't actually see a reason why I have found that to be somewhat true as well depending on the mic. Many multi pattern mics are notorious for taking a few minutes to really settle into the new pattern.
Originally this was based off of tube microphones. By placing t
Originally this was based off of tube microphones. By placing the mic upside down, the heat from the tube did not affect the diaphragm of the mic capsule as much.
For non-tube mic's it is just whatever the engineer wants when he puts up the mic's.