oh you're so much taller than me you gave me the bad stool you're the taller it's the bad stooll
but I am taller well you know you are a bit taller and I have nowhere to put my feet because I am not
actually taller in person, oh my goodness well I could take the other stool but it's not the right
it's not as comfy as this one and that's my point okay you're a bad dad!
I am a bad dad but let's get to it
all right all righty then all righty then um so Sammy' is gonna join me for some videos we'll see how this goes on a topic unknown to her
I have no idea what we're doing at all I got my wine though so you know cheers figure it out let's figure it out um if we want to you've done sound
you've toured warped tour you've you've got enough of a knowledge of it some knowledge yeah and um
we've got a wide array of microphones that we have selections of them he's really just pulling from
let me tell you guys a literal pile of microphones just all sitting on top of each other
in a big mess i don't know if he's gonna grab all from the pie no i'm just gonna grab the
pretty ones and some odd ones and some other ones so what looks like something like that ten more
yeah so here's a akg d12 if you hit it hit that on your hand gently
yeah yeah it's got a springboard in there and these are popular they started off as
a vocal mic and then later on they became a kick drum mic um this is a sennheiser 431
it's kind of neat pretty right let's get the little dots around it but it's not the
most gorgeous what's really interesting on this mic is you can unscrew these screws
this plastic thing comes off and it's a smooth mic and this is an on off switch that works
through a magnet that passes through the shell so once you take the screws off it's yeah yeah
people don't like so so yeah it's a choice of an on off and it's um they were popular mics for a
little while no never that popular um here's a sennheiser really cool looking mic uh four
four yeah it's beautiful one of the most beautiful mics to work on too to open this up the way they
open i'll do a video on it someday there's a screw that comes out and this little thing slides open
and there's this gorgeous shock mounted this is another one that you can gently hit
and feel the oh yeah spring shock mount in there uh we'll go on to i don't even know it was a 416
i think this is this is kind of a funky one it looks like the space needle right it looks like
a ball like almost like a diamond ball held in a um yeah this one always reminds the 441 it looks
like a shaver yeah an electric shield this looks like a miniature version of the mic we just saw
um oh it's made by the same company yeah it's definitely related this sennheiser 416 this
is kind of an odd mic i don't see many of these around oh and that hasn't spring loaded in it too
here's another one that's i think a 413. so these are all what i'm really getting at here
is just this really wide variety of and they're cool they're like gems um and the question is
why do we have all these microphones and are they striving for me with speakers they keep pushing
out pushing to be striving for perfect sound right you're trying to get the best sounding one
or these speakers sound better it makes a claim to fame that they're at the most accurate or um
well my question is if we want to capture the most accurate sound that instrument creates
why wouldn't we just use the measurement mic that we use to test the system as an analyzer
the analyzer mic is the most accurate it's the most accurate mic we have in our toolbox yeah
it's a it's a little condenser it's it's basically what we use to design the speakers
yeah if it's so darn accurate why don't we make everything and why don't we i don't know
what are the mics bringing to the table well and the the interesting aspect is that the mics are
it's no one wants to look at music because it looks kind of funky yeah it's not pretty
enough um it's not that they're um any of these mics are accurate in fact they're the
opposite accurate we're looking for the way they alter the sound the way they ruin the sound the
way they don't ruin it but they they make it different so they take the original instrument
um when you mic so of all those mics we looked at is there any of which would you use to
like a kick drum well okay listen i already know i have the insider knowledge on this you
also already said earlier that the ak akg was the one that used to be vocals you wouldn't typically
mic a vocal with the same thing you would like a kick drum and i know that that is the outside
is a lie because you want the big dense mic to mic the kick drum that's not a big dense mic
it's a little condensed or it's a i don't know if that one's a condenser but it's a small
particular one i know that you want me to choose this one do you want me to choose this one i do
want you to choose this one but not for that reason okay um typically when you're miking a
big thing someone grabs the big one yeah i know and i know that this one has the outer shell to
look like a big mic oh it's big inside oh it is yeah yeah this is never mind yeah but this but
you got the right idea he was trying to trap me i knew he was going to try and trap me um
the so let's go ahead and look at oh so be using a big heavy mic to make a big heavy thing
if the mic is truly big and heavy all the way through it's not the diaphragm is going to be big
and heavy so you got this big drum that goes and you get a diaphragm that goes boom and so now it
just goes blue just this down yeah so if you have something big and heavy using a small delicate mic
to really capture its big and heaviness now if you have something that's real shrill like a trumpet
if you use a tiny little shrill mic it's just going to be a nightmare
so you want to use the big heavy mic to make the tiny thing and the tiny mic to make the big thing
if we're truly using mics to augment what an instrument is missing
okay so let's go ahead i think i've got a way of um showing this stuff so what we'll do
it's um the video's gonna get kind of long so we'll take a break sounds good you want some
wine cheers cheers all right not for him just for me we'll um do come back or do another one with um
some tests where we'll look at the difference between all these mics and actually see um
what they look like on a scope and what they're doing to the sound a bit and then maybe we'll do
a third version while we listen to those same things are we going to look at the analyzer
mic at all yeah sure because i think that would be good because if maybe we should maybe we should be
using the analyzer mic for everything probably not but maybe that's true we could do it all right all
right let's look at it um all right taking a break it's getting hot in here too yeah it's getting hot
okay