Quick reactions to my first ever multi-microphone set up podcast recording

Quick reactions to my first ever multi-microphone set up podcast recording

I'm just back from recording a 'round-table' style podcast episode for the first time with 4 microphones. Here are just a few observations I want to log for future consideration: It was good to have the differently colour-coded microphone wind shields but I should have put sticky tape of the same colours on the mixer - I placed the microphones in the wrong order and so twiddled the gain and level of the wrong one for a bit until I realised (doh!) It would be best to have all microphones the same make and model - I had 3 Samson Q2Us and 1 Shure SM58 - as you'd imagine, they needed rather different amounts of gain etc. It's best to try and tweak the gain for the speaker who's speaking at the time and reduce the gain of the others - I got used to this as I went and it improved the overall sound Getting people to speak towards the microphone is difficult -...
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