13 Mics: practical listening exercise (b): mic placement and sound discrimination
One ear
This exercise furthers your ability to appreciate the nature of ‘one ear’ – a mic capsule – substituting for both human ears in the real world – the essence of balancing on location. For this you will need two differing sound sources about six feet (2 m) apart. I suggest using your radio and television, since you can easily change stations/channels to give you a variety of sounds to experiment with. Set both to deliver as equal a volume of sound as is practical, and mount your mic on a pole.
At this stage you don't need closed headphones, since it's useful to discover how the overall sound direct, versus the sound via the mic/headphones combination, sounds ...
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