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3 – Antares microphone modeling—Selecting a model for output
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• Use a different microphone which is listed, if you
have one.
• Select a similar model of microphone from the
same manufacturer; that is, one with similar char-
acteristics to the one in use.
• Select another microphone of the same type (for
example, another large condenser microphone,
etc.).
• Select Bypass (that is, no microphone) as the
source.
Note that if you do select a microphone of a different
type to the actual microphone, though you will prob-
ably obtain acceptable results, the resulting sound
will not be 100% accurate.
The bypass microphone model
The bypass microphone model is equivalent to no
microphone being used. This may be useful in the
case of electric instruments which have been
direct-injected (that is, with no microphone involved) and where the model microphone is to be used to
provide a distinctive sound for these instruments.
Although this may not produce an absolutely realistic
model of the model microphone, it will almost cer-
tainly produce an interesting sound.
Source microphone settings
In addition to the type of microphone used as the
source microphone, the modeler needs to know a few
more things before it can achieve the best results:
Proximity This is the average distance of the sound
source from the microphone when the recording is
made. The distance is measured in inches (1 inch =
2.54cm). If this is not set, then the “proximity effect”
(an artificial boost in bass frequencies at close range)
may not be properly compensated, and the sound will
be unnatural. Note that microphones with an omnidi-
rectional response do not exhibit this proximity
effect, and any settings made here with an omni
source microphone will have no effect.
Use pod 2 on row 3 for this setting.
NOTE
As the source moves away from the microphone, an
amount of ambient room tone is added to the record-
ing. The microphone modeler cannot add the room
tone, but a little reverb added to the signal may help
here.
Pattern The pattern of the source mic, if selectable,
should be echoed in this setting. If the source mic is
fixed-pattern, no selection is possible here, and the
display shows
None here. Use POD 3 on row 3.
Low-cut filter Many microphones have a bass cut
filter. If this filter has been set on the real physical
source microphone, this setting should be made on
the source microphone of the modeler as well.
This is done using POD 4 on row 3.
The actual name of this filter varies according to the
actual name on the physical microphone, and will not
exist at all if the mic does not actually have such a fil-
ter fitted (the display shows
None ).
NOTE
The modeler assumes that the source was recorded
on-axis. Since there is no way to tell the modeler about
the actual position of the source relative to the micro-
phone, the modeler cannot compensate for frequency
differences, etc. caused by off-axis placement of the
source.
Selecting a model for output
In the same way as you selected a microphone as the
source mic, move the cursor to the Model Micro-
phone field (POD 1, bottom row), and select the
model of the microphone to be modeled.
As with the source microphone, a -w indicates that a
windscreen has been added to the model. There may
also be variants of the base model, as described for
the source microphone.
If the Bypass “microphone” is selected here, and a
source microphone is selected, the effect will be that
of the source microphone’s characteristics. If Bypass
is selected both for the source and the model, the
final result of the modeler will be the input source,
with the addition of any tube saturation added by the
modeler (see below).