That moment when you realize the basis of a number of guitar effects was fking with phase 🤯This was really good your channel should be much bigger homie
Ha! You’re 100% right on the guitar pedals 👍 Thanks for the kind words. I’m working on growing my channel this year so tell your friends! 😅 Thanks for watching and commenting!
You don’t need to have the polarity pressed on one while actually recording. I just do it to check the phase is good while I’m getting the mics set up. Once I’m ready to record, no polarity buttons are pushed because the phase should good then. On an electric guitar cab, as long as your mic diaphragms are the same distance from the speaker you should be fine. It really becomes necessary to check phase when two mics are on an acoustic guitar or lots of mics on drums.
@@DadRockAndGuitars I really appreciate your answer, it really confuses me all that about phase ...your video is the clearest... but nobody mentioned when to engage or disengage the phase button in our interfaces, your answer is very helpful. Thanks again
Great question! When using two mics on a guitar cab, it's usually a good idea to invert the polarity on one of the mics and make sure the signals cancel out (reduce in volume) as much as possible. You may need to move one mic back and forth a bit to find that spot.This means the mic diaphragms are the same distance away from the speaker. Then you put the polarity back on the mic you changed and the two signals will be in phase for recording and you will have the fullest tone possible from the microphones. Otherwise there may be some frequencies that get cancelled out like they did when I pulled the one mic backwards. Let me know if that doesn't answer your question. Thanks!
Generally speaking yes. Especially on electric guitar. Sometimes on something like recording acoustic guitar in stereo or drums with lots of microphones, a mic will be out of phase because of where it is placed, but that's where you want it to get the sound you want from it. However, it will be out of phase with the other mic(s). In that case, when you flip the polarity on one mic, it will correct the phase problem and then you would go ahead and record that with the polarity button pushed in on the one mic because it corrects the problem. Hopefully that makes sense. It's hard to describe in writing. Here's good video demonstrating this on electric guitar, acoustic guitar, and drums. ua-cam.com/video/Kn8rvcOtmVo/v-deo.html
Amazing and very useful channel! Loved this video, really explains phase very well. Just subscribed! I make guitar videos on my channel! Check them out sometime :) Cheers -Jose
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That moment when you realize the basis of a number of guitar effects was fking with phase 🤯This was really good your channel should be much bigger homie
Ha! You’re 100% right on the guitar pedals 👍 Thanks for the kind words. I’m working on growing my channel this year so tell your friends! 😅 Thanks for watching and commenting!
Very cool great explanation the movement of the mics really ties it all together and this is why we love the phaser pedal...as did EVH
Thanks!!
This is so useful! Thanks. Now I actually know what's happening and how to avoid/employ it.
That's great! I'm glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching 👍
13:25 "It's definitely darker and all that stuff." ... I laughed. Great way to forego ranting about the color of the mic while still addressing it.
No sense in complicating things 😂 Thanks for watching and commenting Matt Soverns!
@@DadRockAndGuitars I identify with being an audiophile who can't shut up about tone and color. So, I appreciate such subtle humor
Great video and experiment to prove what phase is in real life. Greatly appreciate it, keep up the good work bro!
Thank you Emre O!
great demonstration! ...all these years i knew about phase issues and how to fix them, but I still never understood how they happen. thanks
Glad this was helpful! Thanks for watching and letting me know!
great explanation, this really helped. (other videos on this subject were mostly confusing me)
That's great - I'm glad you found it helpful! Thanks for watching and letting me know Unnroolee!
This is a really interesting video!
Great joob! Appreciate the tips.
Thanks @gordian1500 !
Excellent, thanks!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
I still not getting thou, so we need to press Face in our interface while recording with two mics???
You don’t need to have the polarity pressed on one while actually recording. I just do it to check the phase is good while I’m getting the mics set up. Once I’m ready to record, no polarity buttons are pushed because the phase should good then.
On an electric guitar cab, as long as your mic diaphragms are the same distance from the speaker you should be fine.
It really becomes necessary to check phase when two mics are on an acoustic guitar or lots of mics on drums.
@@DadRockAndGuitars I really appreciate your answer, it really confuses me all that about phase ...your video is the clearest... but nobody mentioned when to engage or disengage the phase button in our interfaces, your answer is very helpful. Thanks again
Why I will like to invert the face if sounds good already? what is the purpose for that?
Great question! When using two mics on a guitar cab, it's usually a good idea to invert the polarity on one of the mics and make sure the signals cancel out (reduce in volume) as much as possible. You may need to move one mic back and forth a bit to find that spot.This means the mic diaphragms are the same distance away from the speaker. Then you put the polarity back on the mic you changed and the two signals will be in phase for recording and you will have the fullest tone possible from the microphones. Otherwise there may be some frequencies that get cancelled out like they did when I pulled the one mic backwards.
Let me know if that doesn't answer your question. Thanks!
@@DadRockAndGuitars Thanks again ...so basicallly everybody just inverted the phase to "check" polarity but not to record or to finalize a mix?....
Generally speaking yes. Especially on electric guitar.
Sometimes on something like recording acoustic guitar in stereo or drums with lots of microphones, a mic will be out of phase because of where it is placed, but that's where you want it to get the sound you want from it. However, it will be out of phase with the other mic(s). In that case, when you flip the polarity on one mic, it will correct the phase problem and then you would go ahead and record that with the polarity button pushed in on the one mic because it corrects the problem. Hopefully that makes sense. It's hard to describe in writing.
Here's good video demonstrating this on electric guitar, acoustic guitar, and drums. ua-cam.com/video/Kn8rvcOtmVo/v-deo.html
Amazing and very useful channel! Loved this video, really explains phase very well. Just subscribed! I make guitar videos on my channel! Check them out sometime :) Cheers -Jose
Thanks Jose Orozco! I will definitely check out your channel!