JJ Audio Mics Field Test

[Weiss-Sound]

Hello all,

I spent the last week end field testing JJ Audio Microphones with a Hip Hop band called "Philadelphia Slick" over at Studio E.

There is also a lot of technique involved in the results, and I'd be happy to share any information about the sources, the placement, other gear used, studio environment etc.

Here are some samples:

http://www.divshare.com/download/10422807-0c5

[Mixwell]

Maybe it would of benefit to go into further detail about the technique.

[Weiss-Sound]

Absolutely, there's just so much stuff there I'd like to address what people ask me to, rather than write a long ass article on everything.

[Mixwell]

Yes, Indeed. Maybe just more about your work here, and your experience with all of the J.J microphone offerings in short summation of course. It might be of assistance to discuss what your opinion was of the product.

[Weiss-Sound]

Ah absolutely.

JJ Mics contacted the owner of the studio that I work at asking us to field test their product line. The owner agreed and asked if I would engineer the session. I am the tracking and mixing engineer in this picture. I worked with a live Hip Hop band called "Philadelphia Slick." These are some of the samples. There's no mixing involved with the exception of one of the full tracks which was tracked with reverb on the vocals - I just left it on. And one of the drum samples had a kick going through an art tube pac compressor. Everything is a live instrument - tracked primarily with JJ Mics, and a few choice dynamics.

The mics were on the whole were very colored, which means they weren't something you just throw up and get great results - on the whole. It didn't take a long time to get a sense of what the mics were doing, so figuring out my tracking configurations and such didn't take super long - but took a moment of trial and error. I was largely impressed by the microphones.

The band tracked separately. The drummer was sick, so we started with the bass over the demo drums. We moved on to some vocals, then keys, then saxaphone, then finally drums. In a way, doing the drums last is actually a cool way of doing Hip Hop, although I was nervous about it at first. The drum work was primarily kick snare and hat - very little cymbal work. So I opted primarily for mono OHs (one of which was a tube version of a c414 which I geeked out over).