white noise and mic placment

[broken81]

how do i go about finding best mic postion with white noise or amp hum whatever you wana call it??

do i wana find quite spot or loudest or exactly what would i do and look for???

 

[The Ocean King]

how i found a sweet spot on the Imperanon demo. I had SM58 on axis and SM57 off axis. I had headphones on. And I had them both hard panned. And when the noise was in the middle in my headphones, I knew I had something good going on. And I had...

 

[broken81]

when you say on axis was it in the middle of cone or like off to the side a bit?

 

[The Ocean King]

i don't remember. probably a little off.