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Page 2 - SECTION ONE; Microphone Technique Basics; SECTION TWO; Notes on Crown Mic Models; SECTION THREE; Specific Applications; SECTION FOUR; Choosing the Right Crown Microphone

SECTION ONE Microphone Technique Basics 3 How to: Reduce feedback and reverberation 3 Reduce background noise and leakage 4 Pick up sound at a distance 4 Reduce phase cancellations between two mics 5 Reduce phase cancellations from surface reflections 5 Reduce handling noise 5 Reduce proximity effec...

Page 3 - Condenser or Dynamic; INTRODUCTION

CHOOSING THE RIGHT CROWN MICROPHONE There’s a wide variety of Crown microphones tochoose from. This guide will help you select themicrophones best-suited for your applications. Transducer Type Condenser or Dynamic In a dynamic microphone, a coil of wire attached to a diaphragm is suspended in a magn...

Page 4 - Speeches; Speaker that Wanders,; Group discussion

How to reduce background noise • Stop the noise at its source: turn off appliances and air conditioning; wait for airplanes to pass; close andseal doors and windows; use a quiet room. • Mike close with directional mics. • Pick up electric instruments with direct boxes or cables. • Aim the null of th...

Page 6 - NOTES ON CROWN

• For maximum isolation and gain-before-feedback, use a GLM-100 close to the drum head a few inchesin from the rim. • Place a CM-700 12 inches from the drum head for recording, closer for sound reinforcement. Violin Recording: • Place a CM-700 or CM-150 1 to 2 feet away over the top. • Attach a GLM-...

Page 7 - Now Discontinued; SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS; Vocal

Percussion Recording/Reinforcement: • Place a CM-700 about 1 foot away. • Tape a PZM on the musician’s shirt (see the Crown Boundary Mic Application Guide ). Ambience Recording: • Place one or two PZMs on a distant wall, or on the control-room window. Grand piano (Figure 10): Recording: • Raise the ...

Page 8 - Drum set; Acoustic guitar

• For maximum gain-before-feedback and isolation, use a CM-310A with your lips touching the metalgrille. The CM-310A Differoid® has more gain-before-feedback than any mic you can buy, so itreally helps vocals stand out over a loud instrumen-tal background. • Vocalists who move around while playing o...

Page 12 - Crown Boundary Mic Application Guide; Choir; Crown Boundary Mic Application; How to reduce proximity effect; Proximity effect; How to reduce pop; Pop

Orchestra, Band, Choir, or Organ Recording (Figure 15): • Hang or place two GLM-100, CM-700 or CM-150 mics about 10 feet apart, about 14 feet above thefloor, and 5 to 15 feet in front of the front-rowmusicians. • Using a stereo mic adapter, hang or place two CM-700 mics in a coincident or near coinc...

Crown SASS - Manual

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