AE-2 Summer'12 Final Exam

The MIC Sheet

You must type and print your comments as well as email them to: edaudio@tangible-technology.com

It will be easiest to download all of the samples, which are 24-bit wav files, import them into a session so you can loop each set. 

To Download, either click the alt (right?) mouse button or CTRL-click on each file and save them to a folder. 

For all acoustic and electric instruments...

I made five folders: Your document should have five headings. 
Please describe the sound of each mic in detail. 

This is your direct link to the contents of each folder

Pno

Cello

accGTR

eleGTR

Bass

Listening Test-1: Piano

RE-50

451 XY

Fathead Blumlein

Listening Test-2: Accoustic Guitar

Fathead on bridge

451 front

RE-50

Listening Test-3: Bass

DI

Mystery Cardioid BONUS: can you name it?

421

Listening Test-4: Cello

Fathead

451

RE-50

Listening Test-5: Electric Guitar

Fathead Near

Fathead Far

SM-57 near

D-6 Near

Bonus Exercise For the Electric Guitar...

• Open the four guitar files in Protools (or any DAW with sample delay plug-in)
• Determine how many samples it takes to delay the Near Fathead Mic so that is can null with the Close Fathead Mic.
• Toggle Polarity (phase reverse) to confirm you got the best null - the null is 'best' when it is dark (minimal treble).  The signal will not disappear entirely.
• Copy the delay to all of the close mics
• Listen to each mic pair: the SM-57 and D-6, for example. The levels should match up pretty well. Toggle the polarity and writre about the difference.