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How can I achieve optimal sound quality when micing a piano for a live performance?
To achieve optimal sound quality when micing a piano for a live performance, place the microphone close to the piano strings to capture the natural sound, experiment with microphone placement to find the best balance of tone, use high-quality microphones and cables, and adjust the levels to avoid distortion.
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How can I achieve the best sound quality when micing an upright piano?
To achieve the best sound quality when micing an upright piano, place the microphone inside the piano near the hammers for a bright sound, or outside the piano for a more natural sound. Experiment with microphone placement and distance to find the best balance of tone and clarity. Use high-quality microphones and consider using multiple microphones for a fuller sound.
Are most galaxies moving toward or away from each other?
Most galixies are micing away from each other, at a constantly accelerating pace as time passes.
Why cut a hole in a bass drum?
It allows for greater projection of sound and alters the tone of the drum. It is also used for recording or when micing a drum for live performance: it is easier for a microphone to capture the sound of the drum when it is inside or directly in front of the hole. http://www.wikihow.com/Port-a-Hole-in-a-Bass-Drum
How many years to be an audio technician?
I have been a full time audio engineer for the past 8 years and I started doing live sound for the most part of it but I have been a studio engineer too for the last few years. I would have to say that you learn the basics of pretty much anything (like wrapping cable or learn the signalflow) by heart in 1-2 years if you do it at least 2-3 times a week, but it takes 5-30 years to become an expert depending on the field of choice.For example micing instruments can be a work of art by itself and mastering audio (preparing recorded and mixed music to CD-ready product) is one of the most difficult fields to master in audio (no pun intended), because it is a lot about the small nuances that many normal people don't hear.I also must warn you the main downside about being an audio engineer, so choose wisely.... Unlike listening music as a consumer or making music as a musician it is all about fun and love for music, the main job for an audio engineering is to listen to errors and what sounds like crap, which eventually leads to that you became a worse nitpick than audiophiles. I ended up listening to everything analytically (including tv broadcasts etc), and that takes the fun away from it all.
How to record and edit your own music with a USB audio interface and free ProTools SE or equivalent?
While it used to be the case that everybody and their dog belonged to a garage band that tried to make demo tapes by micing the entire band through a boombox microphone, the obvious technical limitations of this method allowed many creative efforts to languish or outright die in the dust.In the digital era of home recording solutions, products such as the Line 6 POD Studio UX1 (for less than $200) or the M-Audio (by Avid) Fast Track Pro or C400 series for a little more than that, consumers can be blessed by a USB audio interface that allows for multiple instruments, multiple outputs, and hundreds if not thousands of tones within that little box that will expand your creativity as a musician, all from your bedroom or basement studio.What sort of equipment or hardware do you need to record your own music into your computer?The basic hardware required in order to properly record your instruments into your PC is known by the name of a USB audio interface – typically a standalone box manufactured by companies such as Avid, Line 6, Focusrite, Presonus, or Tascam.The price of such a unit can range from a little over a hundred dollars to well over a thousand and moving upwards, though several models exist under the three hundred dollar price point which will be adequate for most musicians and even bands looking to capitalize on this technology.Important distinctions between models to note include: the number of XLR input ports and output ports (for recording multiple instruments at once), the number of outputs and specifics regarding those outputs (whether they are for specific instruments or whether they have any particular features pursuant to tone), and what maximum sampling rate the device allows (determining the ceiling quality of your recordings).The M-Audio (by Avid) Fast Track series is one of the most popular brands in this category, ranging from ~$150 for the mobile unit with fewer inputs to ~$250 for the C400, which allows four inputs and six outputs. The Line 6 POD Studio UX1 is a competing solo product against the Mobile, for the same price and adding a few more tones.What software can you use to mix, edit, crop, clip, loop, and record you music?While ProTools SE may be included as a light-weight, less-featured version of the industry standard with a lot of these devices, the professional MP9 version unlocks MP3 exporting as well as the automatic beat finder which will help align tempo properly for musicians who are wary of such things.Free alternatives also exist, most notably Zynewave Podium. This fully-featured mixing program not only allows for bounce tracks to WAV (which can then be compressed to mp3 using other freeware solutions) but also encourages users to install plug-ins which can alter the tone of your instruments – guitar, bass, drums, and vocals alike – to great effect.After assembling all the pieces of the band (the bassist or drummer just coming back from a beer run) and all of the pieces of the kit necessary to rock and record – an audio interface, software, some XLR cables, and of course, a dose of energy and creativity – aspiring musicians the world over can prepare to lay down some tracks and perhaps make a name for themselves on Bandcamp or Youtube.
What do you need to mic your drum set?
It depends on where you are, and what size building you are playing in. if you are in a small-medium hall, then most kits will be able to carry their sound over the rest of the music without needing amplifications at all, apart from maybe a mic underneath the hi-hat to pick up them and the snare. For large gigs, stadiums and the such, or recording, most people use: 1 capacitor mic above the ride 1 capacitor above the crash 1 capacitor above by the high hats 1 unidirectional mic by the snare, 1 by high tom, 1 by low tom, 1 by floor tom, and 1 by bass drum. This covers 8 tracks right there - and normally in recording practices you actually use 2 tracks per instrument, say track 1 cranked over to full left channel and track 2 cranked over to full right channel. This is what produces the true stereo effect.
How can you get good acoustics in your home recording studio?
well there's several ways to go about doing this, and of course money is gonna be required, the more u can pay, the better the equipment USUALLY is. First off you can do it Analog or Digital, Digital is more common these days and easier to work with i think. If you want to use a computer you can download a multitrack recording and editing program such as Cool Edit Pro or whatever else you can find. You can download demos of different programs and find one that you like best off of Kazaa or Limewire. Depending on what kind of computer you got or soundcard, you may want to invest in a new soundcard like a Delta 1010LT off of musiciansfriend.com or you could buy an external device like a Firewire input. From here if you only want to use one mic, you can just go right through there. But if you want to mic several instruments or whatever, and adjust their volumes, then i'd get a mixer. They come with different numbers of channels depending on how much you want to spend or how many mics your going to use simultaneously. The setup I use works pretty good, I have the Delta 1010LT installed in the back of my computer and I have a Peavey PV-14 mixer connected to it. I use cool edit pro for my recording program. As far as microphones go, you needa know the difference between condenser microphones and Dynamic microphones. Dynamic microphones are usually cheaper, simpler and easier. But they may not sound as good for you. They use a diaphragm that requires no power to pick up the audio signal. Condenser microphones require phantom power, if you are gonna buy a mixer and use condenser microphones with it, make sure the mixer can produce the phantom power required by the microphone. Condenser microphones also have a front, unlike the dynamics, and pick up the audio best on that part. Make sure u get mics that can pick up the highs or lows of the instrument they'll be used on. As far as micing positions go....there are infinite ways to do them. Experiment till ya get what ya like, most people don't put them right in front of the speaker but off to the side a little bit. Yea theres a lot more stuff to cover, but should be a sufficient summary to help ya get started.
