Summary
In this episode of the Pro Audio Suite, hosts Robert Marshall, Darren Robertson, George the tech Wittam and Andrew Peters dive into an intriguing discussion about unique microphone handling techniques and the associated benefits. They answer a listener's question on why some people hang their microphones upside down - a technique often linked to protecting the microphone from overheating and avoiding dust accumulation on the capsule. They also introduce a discount code "trip a P 200" to get $200 off your Tribooth, recommended as the best vocal booth for home or on the road. Additionally, the team humorously integrates tire chat, sponsored by Canadian Tire, into their discussion. Don't forget to join the conversation on their Facebook group. #ProAudioSuite #MicrophoneTips #TriboothDiscount
Timestamps
(00:00:00) Welcome to Pro Audio Suite
(00:00:45) Hanging Microphones Upside Down
(00:05:39) Trivia: The White Michelin Man
Transcript
Speaker A: Y'all ready be history.,Speaker B: Get started.,Speaker A: Welcome.,Speaker B: Hi. Hi. Hello, everyone, to the Pro Audio Suite. These guys are professional. They're motivated.,Speaker A: Thanks to Tributh, the best vocal booth for home or on the road. Voice recording and Austrian audio making passion heard. Introducing Robert Marshall from source elements and someone audio post Chicago. Darren robert Robertson from Voodoo Radio Imaging. Sydney to the Vo stars. George the tech Wittam from La. And me, Andrew Peters, voiceover talent and home studio guy learner.,Speaker B: Here we go.,Speaker C: Welcome to another Pro audio suite. Don't forget, if you would like to get $200 off your tribooth, use the code trip a P 200. We had a question sent to us about microphone position particularly. Why would you hang your microphone upside down?,Speaker B: The answer is pretty obvious, if you think about it.,: To get to run all the blood out of it.,Speaker B: Yeah, that's right.,Speaker C: Yeah.,: So you can record Pink, who's famous for singing on stage, hanging upside down.,Speaker B: There you go. There's another good answer to dry it out. Well, there's that as well. That's right. Yeah, exactly.,Speaker C: Or you could record like Brian Wilson in a beanbag.,: I think the new thing with microphone should kind of be like how gangsters will hold the gun sideways. I think we do the gangster style sideways microphone.,Speaker B: Right.,Speaker C: But here's another reason, a serious one. And this is a fine example of a microphone that should be hung upside down. This is the Microtech Gafel M 92.1s, featuring the original M seven capsule. And inside is a valve, or for our American friends, a tube, the EF 86 tube, which, of course, generates heat. And what does heat do? It rises. Rises, affecting the capsule. But if you hang it upside down, it goes out the bottom.,: The heat avoids the capsule.,Speaker B: And we have a wiener.,: And there's another reason. And also it gets it out of the way of the script and all that stuff.,Speaker B: Yeah. And it looks cooler, too, I reckon.,: Yeah. Those are the practical reasons for voice actors.,Speaker C: The other reason you hang your mic upside down is dust as well. So you don't get dust inside the.,Speaker B: That'S a good one. Keep the dust off the capsule, probably. Yeah, absolutely.,: And you should turn the phantom off because a polarized capsule will attract dust.,: Oh, see, I've been trying to think of good reasons to tell people to turn off phantom. I usually tell people, don't worry, just leave it on.,: I'm pretty sure a polarized capsule will attract polarized dust.,Speaker B: There's the two schools of camp. There's the school that says, Leave it on because turning on and off all the time is crap. And there's the school that says Turn it off. Because for all the reasons we've just mentioned yeah.,: I think you should therefore just turn it on to, like, 24 volts phantom when you're gone.,Speaker B: You think so? Half?,: No, you're taking me seriously.,Speaker B: Are you standing by that robert, are you going to pay all the police pay because you my mic claims? Because I want nothing to do with that.,Speaker C: No, not absolutely. But I always turn everything off anyway.,Speaker B: When I yeah, I turn off it. I put my computer to sleep, but I turn everything else off. Yeah, absolutely. I think it's the best way. I mean, God knows what's going to happen.,: Sometimes if you leave stuff turned on and the right thunderstorm comes by, kaboom. But if it's turned off, it might not quite get hit as hard.,Speaker C: That's one thing well, I bet people don't have because I've got the what do you call it, the CyberPower thing. So if we do get a major surge, it blocks it.,Speaker B: Yeah, I've got surge protection stuff on mine. But I always come back to my grandmother, because if I was talking to my grandmother when I was living in a state, when I was working in radio and there was a storm coming, she'd say, oh, I better get off the phone, there's a big storm coming. Okay, right on and see you later down the phone. She made me paranoid.,: Especially if it was like the cordless phones you had at your house back in the day when cordless phones first came out and they had the big antenna. And there used to be this guy that would walk around the block and he's like, this is so great. Because it was 900. Could go a good distance farther than WiFi. But yeah, if you're walking around with a big antenna coming off like.,Speaker C: The umbrella.,Speaker B: So if you hang your mobile phone upside down, do you still get struck by lightning?,Speaker C: No, and don't hold me to that.,: Yes. Are you sticking with that one, Rob?,Speaker B: I didn't know that. I want that court case either.,Speaker C: No way.,Speaker B: Right.,: How about we make a pair of headphones that are purely metal band made to wear in the rain?,Speaker B: There you go. Put them inside the voiceover bodysuit. Yeah.,Speaker C: With a large antenna. Like a lightning rod.,Speaker B: Yeah, lightning rod for the voiceover bodysuit. There we go.,: They can have little pokey things that get a really good contact on your temple so that when the lightning hits.,Speaker B: It just goes like, oh, look at George. There we go. George has got the metal band on his headphones. Look at that. They're cool.,: I like, George, that's too bad.,Speaker C: You know what you could do, though, just to if you wore the metal headphone and you put a lightning rod sticking out the top, then you run a wire from each side down your body and then connects to a metal plate on the bottom of your shoe. By right, you should be earthed and you should be okay in a lightning storm.,: Right. You're doing the same thing as you do to a whole house.,: Yeah.,: And we might need to do this for the voiceover bodysuit. What's it c
You already history story. Welcome, Hi, Hi to the pro Audio Sue. Thanks you guys, a professional and motivated thanks to Try Booth, the best vocal booth for home or on the road voice recording and Austrian audio making Passion Hurt. Introducing Robert Marshall from Source Elements and Someone Audio Post Chicago, Aaron Robert Robertson from Voodoo Radio Imaging Sydney to the video Stars, George the Tech Whittam from LA and Me, Andrew Peters Voice Ober Talents and Home Studio Guy Out. Welcome to another pro audio suitek don't forget. If you would like to get two hundred dollars off your try booth, use the code tr IPAP two hundred. We had a question sent to us about microphone position, particularly why would you hang your microphone upside down? Yan's pretty obvious if you think about it, to get to run all the blood out of it. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah, So you can record Pink, who's famous for singing on stage, hanging up side. Now there there's another good answer to dry it out. Well, there's that as well. That's right, yeah, yeah, exactly, Or you could record like Brian Wilson in a bean bag. If the microphone, I think the new thing with microphone should kind of be like you know how gangsters will hold the gun sideways. I think we do the gangster style sideways microphone, right. But here's another reason, a serious one. And this is a fine example of a microphone that should be hung upside down. This is the Microtechfell M ninety two point one S featuring the original M seven capsule, and inside is a valve or for American Friends tube, the e F eighty six tube, which of course generates heat. And what does heat do? It rises, affecting the capsule. But if you rung it upside down out the bottom, heat avoids the CAPSULEM and we have a winner. And there's another reason. And also it gets it out of the way of the script and all that stuff. Well yeah, and it looks cooler too, I reckon. Yeah, those are the practical reasons for voice actress. The other reason you hang your MinC upside down is dust as well, so you don't get dust inside. That's one getting dust off the capsule probably, yeah, absolutely, And you should you should turn the phantom off because a polarized capsule will attract dust. Oh see, I've been trying to think of good reasons to tell people turn off fan. I usually tell people, don't worry, just leave it on. I'm pretty sure polarized capsule will attract polarized dust. You know, it's like it will, it can. There's the two schools that can't based the school that says leave it on because turning on on and off all the time is crap. And there's the school that says, turn it off because yeah, yeah, well for all the reasons we're just mentioned. Yeah, I think I think you should, therefore, just turn it onto, like you know, twenty four volts phantom when you're when you're gone, just you think so half no dust, are you taking me? Seriously? What are you standing by that? Robert? Are you going to take You're going to pay all the you know, the police pay, because my I want nothing to do with that. I'm out. No, no, no, not absolutely. But I always turned everything off anyway, we like, yeah, I turn off it. I put my computer to sleep, but I turn everything else off. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I think it's the best way. I mean, God knows what's going to happen, you know, you know, sometimes if you leave stuff turned on and the right thunderstorm comes by kaboom, But if it's turned off, it might not quite get hit as hard. That's one thing. Well, I bet people don't have because I've got the what do you call it, the cyber power thing, so if we do get a like a major surge, it blocks it. Yeah, I've got search protection stuff on mine. But I always come back to my grandmother, you know, because she'd always you know, if I was talking to my grandmother when I was living in a state, when I was working in radio and there was a storm coming, she'd say, Oh, I better got off the phone. There's a big storm coming. Okay, right later. It feels like it feels like an old like a like a like the cordless phones you had at your house back in the day when cordless phones first came out, and they had the big antenna, and there used to be this guy that would walk around the block and he's like, this is so great because it was nine hundred megatz. You could go a good distance farther than the Wi Fi. But yeah, if you're walking around with a big antenna coming off, like so, if you hang your microphone, if you're hanging a mobile phone upside down? Do you still get struck by lightning? No, I'm not. Don't hold me to that. Yes? Are you sticking with that one? Rather? I don't know that I want that case either? No way, no way. How about we make a pair of headphones that are purely metal band made to wear in the rain. There go, putting inside the verice ever bodysuit. Yeah, with a large antenna like a lightning rod d for the voice over bodysuit. There we go. They can have little poky things that get a really good contact under your temple so that when the lightning hits, it just goes like Look at George. There, George has got the metal band on his headphones. Look at that. They're cool. I like that, George. That's too bad. You know what you could do though, and just to if you wore the metal head head phone, you know, and you put a lightning rod sticking out the top, then you run a wire from each side down your body and then connects to a metal plate on the bottom of your shoe. By right, you should be earthed, and you should be okay in a lightning story. Right, you're you're doing the same thing as you do to a whole house. Yeah, and we and we might need to do this for the voice of a bottle Buddy suit. What's it called the lightning ride? Isn't that? Actually, you know what it's called, Robert, It's called the self charging device. The boys of her body suit is so goddamn yeah, yeah, sound true that you can use it at a lightning store. There you go. You meet the additional ad option of the the optional right, just gets Silli. We've got to do it. We've got to come up with a prototype. Didn't you see the picture the other day michelin the originally michelin Man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you know why the michelin Man was weight was wrapped in weight? I didn't know that either until I saw that. I know what you're going to say, so I'm not going to answer that' See if anyone actual rubber back in the day was white, yeah, there was, of course, there used to be rubber, is why until they started dying at black. That's why the michelin Man's wine. I always wondered that. Now I know because my grandfather was a chauffeur back in the nineteen twenties and the car he used to drive. I can't remember what make it was now because it was so long ago, so I send any photographs. But that had white rubber tires, which being a chow that would have been a bitch because you had to clean them all the time. Absolutely, I'm sure that's why tears are black now. Yeah, yeah, was that where white white walls came from because the tires were white, But then we are driving on the black Pitchmen road, so that the rubber became black on the bottom of the sides were still white. Maybe yeah, probably, Yeah. I think when they make white wolves, they actually take the black off and it's white underneath. I think that's why they do it. There you go, Yeah, they wanted their white look. They wanted their classic like a tuxedo for cars. Imagine if you did if you had a if you have white tires, you did a burnout, confuse the ship out of people behind They go, what the hell's the lanemarking here? What am I supposed to do? Yeah? People are like driving in your direction if you do a big spin and there check it out online. There are some red tires and blue tires just so when you do burnout to leaves crazy colors on the stree. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. You can get like a red, white and blue tire. Then he could be very patriotic about your burnouts as you could. He could have to change the name of the show now the Pro Audio, Sweet and Tire Chat just general Green Spillage sponsored by Canadian Tire, the Pro Audio Suite and Austrian audio recorded using Source Connect, edited by Andrew Peters and mixed by Voodoo Radio Imaging. George don't forget to subscribe to the show and joining the conversation on our Facebook group to leave a comment, suggest a topic, or just say today, drop us a note at our website.