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Music | | English term or phrase: micing - close micing | i know mic mean microphone but i want the mean of close and micing in
--Also my first choice for micing a snare drum
--Also commonly paired with a Shure SM-57 when micing the inside of a kick drum.
--Dynamic microphones generally sound best on guitar cabinets and close-miced drums |
| | | picking up the sound using a microphone | Explanation:
More usually spelt miking, to make the pronunciation with a hard 'k' sound clearer!
It means the activity or technique of picking up sound (instrument, voice, etc.) using a microphone; we talk about close-miking when the microphone is palced very close to the sound source (avoids picking up other sounds, but can produce an unnatural sound from the instrument etc.) — commonly used for 'pop' music; as distinct from 'distant miking' (commonly used for recording classical music, for example. Of course, there are an infinite number of other possible mike positions in between...
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Note added at 1 hr (2009-11-30 18:00:59 GMT)
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Here, the writer is talking about the suitability of certain types of microphones for picking up (probably for amplification, rather than recording) the sound from different types of drums. |
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