From ablyfundamental@hotmail.com Thu Mar 18 13:32:53 2004
Subject:Getting OT: Dual Mikes (was: Re: that Leslie sound you hear?)

> If you look at Isle of Wight footage and other films from that era,
> you'll see that some fests didn't even do that, at least with the
> vocal mics(mikes): 2 microphones are actually taped together, one
> for the house, one for the truck.

Sometimes but not always. Occasionally dual mikes (oops, I mean mics)
indicate a differential setup for feedback cancellation. The dead
used to do this. You'd have to sing right on top of the mics,
anything with phase differences between the two (like ambient sound)
would be cancelled. Alright, I'm getting geeky.
-c