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Triple your Mic Locker without Tripling your Budget
Today I want to help you double or even triple your current mic locker for free. Check this out.
For years I thought that by building my microphone locker I’d be able to achieve dozens of different tones and get different sounds out of my instruments, which is completely true. I found myself on a microphone shopping spree. I just wanted to grow my mic locker as big as possible. As I continued, I noticed that I never had the chance of learning what each mic could do, only what they couldn’t.
There lies the key to doubling or tripling your mic locker: LEARN your microphones. Before you get mad at me and say that’s cheating, think about this.
Different Microphones have different pickup patterns. Understanding your microphones pickup patterns will change the way you record in two ways;
- It will help you understand where it is capturing different frequencies. Simply turning the microphone one inch, you can dramatically change the tone and sound of the source audio....