Metaltastic
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I definitely have placed the mic there quite a bit. I get closer to dustcap for a bright tone and farther away for more lows and mids, obviously.
I'll sometimes spend hours getting two mics to phase in a cool way. For instance i'll take a 57 and place it til its bitching then put up a 421 or beyer 201 and go for some great low end. Then i'll flip the phase on the 421 and see whats leftover in the frequencies. Because what is there when you flip the phase is whats missing when its not flipped. Then i'll basically just move the mic until it sounds so tiny and horrible that i cant bear to listen to it anymore. Then i'll flip the 421 or whatever im using back in phase and BAM its usually a way beefier version of what i had going on with the 57 before.
Its really something i've focused on doing more in the past few years, before i would just put up a few mics and make them all sound great on their own and not realize that i probably had some phasing issues in there once i started blending them all. Now i really try and use the phasing to my advantage, and i really make sure thats its not noticable at all when the guitar is solo'd. I'll put an eq on the guitar and just crank the HELL out of some random frequencies and just sweep through the spectrum... phasing tends to show its face more when you start eqing. If i can crank the eq and not hear anything major, i should be cool.
Hope that makes sense.
Ha! That's pretty funny, and also quite clever (the "reversing the phase and moving mic 2 to sound shittiest" strategy, I mean). Definitely gonna have to try that soon, thanks!