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❒ Directional Microphone

A microphone which primarily picks up sound from only one general direction is

a “directional” microphone. This can be handy in maximizing separation in the

studio (and in reducing feedback on stage), because you can simply aim the

microphone away from sources of sound you don’t want to pick up.

❒ Cardioid Pattern

This refers to a widely-used type of response pattern for directional microphones.

It’s called a “cardioid” pattern because the graph representing this type of

response sort of resembles a heart shape. Sort of.

❒ Omni-directional Microphone

A microphone which will pick up sound equally from all directions. Not often

used in studio recording or live sound, but this type of microphone can be useful

when you want to capture the main source as well as it’s environment (room

ambience, for example) in one go.

❒ Overheads

Microphones that are placed “overhead”, sometimes as a stereo pair, to pick up

the overall sound of an instrument or group of instruments. Overheads are often

used in addition to close-miking when recording drums. Microphones set up this

way are also sometimes called “showers” for, well, obvious reasons.

❒ Closed Headphones

This is the type of headphone that completely covers your ears rather than ﬁtting

in you ears or simply pressing against your ears. This is deﬁnitely the type of

headphones you want to use for monitoring while recording, because they pre-

vent the headphone sound from leaking out to any microphones in the room, and

well as preventing extraneous sound from leaking in.

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