Week 4 - AA1 - Microphones

So I had a friend of mine coming in to record some chords with the classical guitar the EMU storeroom has. I used the SM57 and NT3. With each mics, I used different positions, mic close to the guitar, mic slightly further than the guitar and mic pointed at a totally opposite direction from the guitar.

The results are pretty cool, although the recording sounds much too soft; I probably need to normalise it (which I didn't do).

Here's the recording, I lost the recording of the close up SM57 for some reason. So there are only 5 sound samples:

• Far SM57
• Opposite SM57
• Close up NT3
• Far NT3
• Opposite NT3

The far SM57 produces quite a good sound. It definitely sounds more pleasant from the close one because the close one rings and give too much bass, making the acoustic guitar doesnt sound too real. The SM57 opposite is just very bad because it's got really low bass quality and sounds like it's not being recorded properly.

The obvious difference that I can hear from NT3 and SM57 is the fact that NT3 is so much louder (because it's a condenser). Close up NT3 position give a lot of bass and sounds pretty unpleasant (although gloriously loud). NT3 placed slightly further sounds really good and NT3 placed opposite did have the similar sound as SM57, only slightly louder.