Using Your Microphone; Angle Of Incidence - AKG Emotion C 900 Mode D'emploi

3 Using Your Microphone

3.1 Introduction A handheld vocal microphone provides many
ways of shaping the sound of your voice as it is
heard over the sound system.
The following sections contain useful hints on
how to use your microphone for best results.
3.2 Working Basically, your voice will sound the bigger and
Distance and mellower, the closer you hold the microphone to
Proximity Effect your lips. Moving away from the microphone will
produce a more reverberant, more distant sound
as the microphone will pick more of the room's
reverberation.
You can use this effect to make your voice sound
aggressive, neutral, insinuating, etc. simply by
changing your working distance.
Proximity effect is a more or less dramatic boost
of low frequencies that occurs when you sing into
the microphone from less than 2 inches. It gives
more "body" to your voice and an intimate, bass-
heavy sound.
3.3 Angle of
Incidence
Fig. 3: Typical
microphone
position.
Sing to one side of the microphone or above and
across the microphone's top. This provides a
well-balanced, natural sound.
If you sing directly into the microphone, it will not
only pick up excessive breath noise but also
overemphasize "sss", "sh", "tch", "p", and "t"
sounds.
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