macrae11 wrote:Yeah not going to worry too much about positioning. Pretty much just fired it in there across the strings leanin towards the treble side. Luckily its really only needed for monitors or I'd be real pissed. I still might turn it on in the house for one tune but we'll have to see after intermission.
Pretty much just firing a mic on to something is common practice in live from what I've around town. My favorite example of that is the verticle sm57 that hangs in front of the guitar amp. You don't even need a stand if you wrap the cable around the handle of he amp a few times.
Speaking of "sounds bad" and live applications... I won't get into where this happenened or with who but I went to help a band out with a setup not long ago. The drummer requested some mic cables a few mics since the venue was short of proper working mic cables and the band wanted additional mics that weren't part of the mic kit that the venue provided. I got there and helped with the setup. I originally went there do do the soundcheck but by the time I got there, the house sound guy was already well into his "zone" so I opted instead to simply help him out and I started to help set up the mic lines on the stage.
We had trouble witha few of the mic lines as there seemed to be a lot of bad mic cables, so I'd have to swap a few cables out for some of ours (that I personally tested before leaving.) When we got to the condenser used as an overhead when ran into some trouble. I changed the mic line since that was a likely culprit in my experience but that wasn't it. we also changed the channel on the snake since that was a potential issue as well. That wasn't it either... so the rest of us went abotu our business while he tried to troubleshoot the issue. A few minutes went by and he still hadn't figured it out. He the comes on stage and examines the mic. He then asks "Is this one of those condensers that needs phantom power?"
It went downhill from there unfortunately... I've never heard worst sound in my life, either on the stage or in front of it. That fact is also compounded by the fact that it's one of the bigger PAs in town capable of delivering an impressive amount of SPL. Problem is that his gain stages were all messed up. He had no headroom no matter where he looked, everything was pinned. I walked away glad that I wasn't playing there that night.
No piano although there were 57s everywhere...