Daily Archives: August 18, 2010

Had a fun experience tonight “debugging” something that turned out to be a simpler problem… I mounted the mic wrong!  Cardioid microphones, as most folks know, pick up sound from most angles except directly behind them. Thus, if you mount your mic 180 degrees away from where your noise source is, most of what you are hearing then is the room reflections. I figured something was wrong when I found myself cranking up the preamplifier to get a decent line level. So, next time your mic seems “boxy” or too quiet for the preamplifier settings… Check the positioning first!