ruffrecords
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I see this snare miced top and bottom thing and the need to flip the phase/polarity switch a lot. The interesting thing is that whenever you mic a snare top and bottom you run into phase problems not polarity ones. At some frequency the distance between the mics will be half a wavelength so even if both mics have the same polarity their outputs will be 180 degrees out of phase with each other. Only if the path lengths from the source of the snare sound to the top mic and to the bottom mic are identical will there b no phase difference. And given the shape of the snare drum this is very difficult to achieve.fazer said:That said I push the phase button on a Neve 1081 to fix the polarity of a top and bottom snare mic on one of the pream modules. Now that I’ve said that I guess I’ll never work in this business again. ;D. Some body stop me! LOL
Edit: and if you use room mics too......
Edit: Remember a half wavelength at 1KHz is just 6 inches.
Cheers
Ian