A BLUFFER’S GUIDE TO MICROPHONES
As a producer, you could theoretically go through your entire career without once needing to look at a microphone. We would strongly advise against it, but it’s certainly possible. If you don’t plan on using vocals in your music, then you need never worry about them.
Thing is, mics are fun. Aside from the fact that knowing about them broadens your musical knowledge and makes you a better producer and engineer, they are actually highly rewarding to use. Mics are the divas of the production game – finicky, demanding and complicated, with a million different moods. But figure out how to get them working for you, and they can steal the whole show. In this guide, we’ll look at how mics work, and how to turn them into the headliners on your production marquis.
Inner workings
In a lot of ways, a microphone is just a speaker in reverse. While the speaker puts out sound, a microphone takes it in, using reasonably similar parts and principles to perform a
