Originally Posted by
jmh
Hmm, I've been using NT2As for overheads. Of course you are limited to what you have - and also have to prioritize your needs as you deploy gear for best utilization. Its funny, we all have to go through this decision process and those factors collectively have a big impact on what you are capturing - or maybe better to say, what you capture.
Going back to NT2A overhead, I've been using them in cardioid, which works out pretty good, but I'll have to experiment and see how they do in the other patterns. I shied away from figure8 as there is a shelf over the drum kit - but if I pulled it forward a couple of feet, there would be a cathedral ceiling over the back lobes.
As I said, I'm using ribbons as room mics ricocheting off the ceiling as an experiment - a royer 121 and an AT4080 active ribbon more because they were not being used. But the tracks I've gotten have been interesting, and a some are now mixed into songs, but not really as stereo pairs or panned L & R. Anyway if I'm moving the kit away from my shelf, I could use the ribbons as overheads. Although they are both ribbons, they are way different. The AT4080 has an unbelievably long proximity range (it has captured pretty nice vocals). This brings the question on what is everyone's thinking on matching and pairing mics for stereo?