Just wondering what most of you guys do in terms of capturing the room sound when you're tracking kit? What sort of mics and positioning do you lean toward? Omni, Cardioid, Figure 8?
I'm doing some rock stuff quite soon and I want to get away from the 'metal' habit of just close-micing the hell out of everything and using a synthetic verb afterwards to attempt to glue everything together. Works great in metal.. not so great in other stuff. I'd like to stick solely to using room mics to add depth, but don't really know any great positioning techniques to make it worth the while.
Another question being how do you avoid phasing, or does it become a non-issue when you're dealing with mics that are largely capturing reflections anyway?
I'm doing some rock stuff quite soon and I want to get away from the 'metal' habit of just close-micing the hell out of everything and using a synthetic verb afterwards to attempt to glue everything together. Works great in metal.. not so great in other stuff. I'd like to stick solely to using room mics to add depth, but don't really know any great positioning techniques to make it worth the while.
Another question being how do you avoid phasing, or does it become a non-issue when you're dealing with mics that are largely capturing reflections anyway?