Phase cancellation on a snare drum

How phase cancellation on a snare drum works

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Music

Tags:

• Phase cancellation
• snare drum
• phase
• microphone

[Jerettfranklin]

education vid :) thanks for the lesson!

[vidadrumgirl]

Wow. That's quite a difference.

[zombie13studio]

@Squirrel160990 You can still have some phase cancellation from any other downward pointing mic.

[zombie13studio]

@Vapausorava Reverse the phase on the bottom mic is the easiest way. Mixer, interface, pre-amp, or recording software/device should have a button or switch for phase reverse.

[ClassicCult]

thumbs up if you think the snare with phase cancellation sounds unique

[WorkflowBeats]

nice tip. thank's!



[one1byke]

Dude. Pretty awesome. Nice setup. Thanks!

[gvisol]

OnTime plugin from OnSoundGo analyzes time delay misalignment and shows you to compensate it.

[simonklemesruddaly]

@Vapausorava phase reverse

[Vapausorava]

So what is the best way to avoid phase cancellation? just giving each mic a different distance from the snare? or si there a better way?

[bennyboytx]

nice presonus IO

[songswedo]

Sometimes you can just adjust the mic distance from the head so that they are different. It doesn't take much. Usually about a 1-4 ratio. By that I mean that if your upper mic is 1" away you could move the bottom mic 4" away and it's just enough distance that it will stop the phase. It doesn't always work, but it's an easy fix in some situations.

[roni5alive]

@tc25d I'm interested in what your on about. It would be great if you posted a vid explaining exactly what that is.

I like this simple Vid. It will be a great help to people. I was looking for phase cancelation in drum tuning (how the top skin reacts with the bottom) very interesting.

Cheers for posting!

[Squirrel160990]

@Bayinator Yeah but why only the bottom? What will happen if you set it to the top snare mic instead? Will it not have the same effect?

[Bayinator]

@Squirrel160990 hey! Only set the phase reversal on the bottom snare mic! Erik

[Squirrel160990]

Hey, does it matter which microphone you flip the phase on? Would you get a different sound if you phased one and not the other? If you could let me know that would be great thanks :)

[Mikas86]

Thank you so much for that explanation - simple and nice!

[metalhead3ecr]

Thank you thank you thank you thank you....i needed that explaination

[JohnAGlasspoole]

Great stuff, thanks dude!

[tc25d]

Dude, you are one smart cookie. Now I would suggest taking the analog wave and converting it to a digital value, importing it into XL, perform the summation then replot the waveform in XL. Also, if you can do what you showed can you isolate the background resonant frequencies that are undesirable, create a counter waveform that is 180 degrees out of phase to cancel that junk? Rock on dude.