Mic vs Mic

Benzie Badlaw played the role of guest artists for Wednesday's Sound Foundations class in recording studio techniques - and boy, did we hear 'em! Students set up a dozen or so different microphones on the acoustic duo for an old-fashioned mic shootout, allowing us to hear the difference between ribbons and condsensers and compare one pickup pattern to another. Every microhphone is good for something - but sometimes you don't know what until you try.