Recording The Vocals: The Microphone

Question 1

Use a CM with a large diaphragm mounted into a ? mount.

Answer 1

Shock.

Question 2

A shock mount suspends the microphone in ?-? via springs or elastic and physically isolates the microphone from the stand, meaning that if the microphone stands gets ?, the vibration shouldn’t be picked up by the microphone.

Answer 2

Mid-air.

Knocked.

Question 3

Start with a cardioid PP because this will be directional enough to capture your ? but has a little bit of ? if they move their head.

Answer 3

Performer.

Flexibility.

Question 4

Some large diaphragm CM have a bass roll off switch that removes unwanted frequencies from a certain point down which is sometimes called a ? ?, and is a high pass filter with a cut off ? that’s between 80 and 120Hz.

Answer 4

Rumble filter.

Frequency.