Working Distance And Proximity Effect; Angle Of Incidence; Feedback - AKG C1000 S Modo De Empleo

3.3.1 Working Distance
and Proximity Effect

3.3.2 Angle of Incidence

Fig. 6: Typical
microphone position.

3.3.3 Feedback

Fig. 7: Microphone place-
ment for maximum gain
before feedback.
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3 Using your Microphone
Basically, your voice will sound the bigger and mellower, the closer you hold the
microphone to your lips. Moving away from the microphone will produce a more
reverberant, more distant sound as the microphone will pick more of the room's
reverberation.
You can use this effect to make your voice sound aggressive, neutral, insinuating,
etc. simply by changing your working distance.
Proximity effect is a more or less dramatic boost of low frequencies that occurs
when you sing into the microphone from less than 2 inches. It gives more "body" to
your voice and an intimate, bass-heavy sound.
• Sing to one side of the microphone or above and across the microphone's top.
This provides a well-balanced, natural sound.
• If you sing directly into the microphone, it will not only pick up excessive breath
noise but also overemphasize "sss", "sh", "tch", "p", and "t" sounds.
a
Feedback is what you get when part of the sound projected by a speaker is picked
up by a microphone, fed to the amplifier, and projected again by the speaker.
Above a specific volume or system gain setting called the "feedback threshold",
the signal starts being regenerated indefinitely, making the sound system howl
and the sound engineer desperately dive for the master fader to reduce the gain
and stop the howling.
C 1000 S
b