Advanced Microphone Techniques with Vance Powell

In this video, Grammy-winner Vance Powell explains some of his advanced mic tricks. In addition to miking techniques, Powell discusses panning, and phase tricks.
Read the full interview with Vance here: https://u.audio/2u273gK

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00:40 - Keeping Drums in the Center
03:22 - Snare Miking
04:23 - Finding the Sweet Lowdown
04:52 - Phase Alignment
06:04 - Exploiting Phase in the Mix
06:48 - How Out of Phase Can Be Useful
07:38 - Using Phase to Widen Guitars
08:16 - The Rolling Stones Phase Trick
08:54 - Finding the Rooms Natural Curve
12:02 - Adding A Mono Room Mic
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“Mic bleed isn't anything to be afraid of. I love the unintended consequences.”

Vance Powell is a four time Grammy Award-winning record producer, mixer, and engineer. He has worked with countless artists including The White Stripes, Arctic Monkeys, Martina McBride and Chris Stapleton.

After decades of experience producing, recording, and mixing grammy-award winning records, Vance Powell presents his top miking recipes during a live workshop at Music Expo SF. Vance starts out by sharing his thoughts on where drums should sit in the mix: in the middle, just like classic records. His approach for this session is to recreate how we hear music in a live setting, and build the rest of his band around the rhythm section through various panning techniques.

In addition to Vance explaining how he records full bands as they sound on stage, Vance shares his thoughts on phase alignment and how to exploit phase in the mix. This includes using phase tricks to widen guitar stereo images, and how The Rolling Stones used similar phase tricks on the piano track of their famous hit, “Sympathy for the Devil.”

Finally, towards the end of this workshop, Vance Powell explains how to set up room mics in a curved fashion to help bleed sit in the mix effectively. He also suggests using a mono room mic to add life to your kick drum. Here, Vance really focuses on using the natural shape of your room to get the best results.

By the end of this video, you will get a taste of how this brilliant music industry professional uses a combination of classic recording techniques and his own methods in order to create impeccable sounding indie folk rock records.

“I love recording bands live. I like bleed, and all the things that come with it. I don’t think anybody should really be scared of mic placement or mic choice. All of those things can lead to a really nice recording, that sounds like a band actually being recorded together; which is kind of a crazy thought these days.”
- Vance Powell (The Revivalists, The White Stripes, Martina McBride)

Hear how Vance’s mic techniques resulted in this Apollo Artist Session -    • Apollo Artist Sessions Vol. X: Vance ...  

To learn more production, recording, and mixing techniques with exclusive interviews and tutorials, visit UA’s blog: https://u.audio/2K1bTpv

☞ Microphones Used:
Kick: MA-301fet (outside)
Snare: MA-100 (top), MA-101fet (bottom)
Hi-Hat: MA-101fet
Rack Tom: MA-100
Floor Tom: MA-100
Overheads (L,R): MA-300’s
Mono Room: R-122
Stereo Room: SF-24
Bass: MA-300 (Plus DI)
Electric Guitar: R-121, MA-100
Violin: R-122, SF-2
Vocal: MA-1000

Learn more about the featured microphones:
http://royerlabs.com/
http://mojaveaudio.com/


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