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Ya think they should stamp 'front' and 'back' on them?

I'll admit, I've had singers not know which side to sing into, but I've never had a mic fool me yet
/now I'm jinxed

... "um, Chad, did you see which side of the mic Michelle stood on when we recorded her part? Stand on that side please. The side with the pop filter in front of it."


I admit to cabling blunders though, I hate when that happens.
MIDI seems to be involved a lot of the time.



Well, I'm pretty sure it was the Behringer B1 that I borrowed, where the 'Front' of the mic, was actually the 'back'. The LDC mics that I've used before, if they have a pad switch or HP filter switch on the body - that's the front of the mic. That's also the side shown as the front in product literature, but I'm 90% certain with the B1, it's the opposite - at least the particular unit that I was using.

If I recall correctly, the polar pattern picture is on the opposite side of the mic - and that was the actual side to address on the mic. I can't even find a picture of the opposite side of the B1 online, all of the stock images show the 'front', but with the particular unit I borrowed, it was WAY hotter addressing from the side that had the picture of the polar pattern.

Now, it was a borrowed mic, and perhaps someone had 'repaired' the mic in the past and somehow had reversed things. I will say it had me very confused until I tried recording to the 'back' side, the side opposite the company logo and HP switch, until I found how much hotter and balanced the signal was.

Anybody here have one that can confirm or reject this? Behringer B1 model.

Last edited by rockstar_not; 10/29/12 07:07 PM.
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