Could someone recommend the best way to mic with a heil pr40? I'm trying to mic my GK neo410. I have the terrible tweeter all the way off. Going for a jesuslizard/shellac sound. I find im getting not enough bass and too much clank. I saw something about the mic being bidirectional, should I be micing it at a 90 degree angle or something?
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Heil PR40 Micing
- Thread starter Bromosapian
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Nope, you mic it head on. Straight at the speaker. Exactly where would be a matter of personal taste.
Yep. pretty self explanatory - hit it straight on at either the bottom corner speaker or the top corner speaker and go from there. The PR-40 is a GREAT Mic for bass cabinets!
K. I had seen a frequency chart for it that had a dip in the highs when you miced it side on. About what angle / distance do you mic it for an emphasis on the lows?
Where you are getting this side info? There is no angle, it's an end firing mic. Meaning you need the end pointing directly at whatever you're micing. It doesn't pick up sound from the sides. Check out the product sheet...all the way at the bottom:
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As for distance, you need to experiment. I'd say that anywhere from 0-12" away from the grill is fairly standard.
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As for distance, you need to experiment. I'd say that anywhere from 0-12" away from the grill is fairly standard.
Ohhhh okay. For some reason I percieved it as being at a 180 degree angle (paralell) to the cone.
Hi.
I don't have a PR40, so I can't give an exact way to use it, but I'd start with the same orientation as I use with any other mic when miking a cabinet/speaker.
With the mic at a small angle in relation to the cone, I point the the mic at the junction of the dustcap and the cone on the relatively small dustcaps, and to the side of the dustcap on the speakers with a larger one.
Trying to mic a regular speaker in a way that the cl of the mic and the cl of the speaker motor are in the same plane, ie. the mic points directly at the dustcap is usually a bad idea. It only takes a few trial runs to notce it though, so no biggie.
Regards
Sam
I don't have a PR40, so I can't give an exact way to use it, but I'd start with the same orientation as I use with any other mic when miking a cabinet/speaker.
With the mic at a small angle in relation to the cone, I point the the mic at the junction of the dustcap and the cone on the relatively small dustcaps, and to the side of the dustcap on the speakers with a larger one.
Trying to mic a regular speaker in a way that the cl of the mic and the cl of the speaker motor are in the same plane, ie. the mic points directly at the dustcap is usually a bad idea. It only takes a few trial runs to notce it though, so no biggie.
Regards
Sam
