AKG C 1000 S User Instructions page 19

shock mount (3) firmly with your thumb and forefinger to
prevent the capsule being severed from the shock mount.
We recommend the C 1000 S for the following applications on
stage and in the studio:
Vocals
Lead
Backing chorus
A handheld vocal microphone provides many ways of shaping
the sound of your voice as it is heard over the sound system.
The following sections contain useful hints on how to use your
microphone for best results.
Basically, your voice will sound the bigger and mellower, the
closer you hold the microphone to your lips. Moving away from
the microphone will produce a more reverberant, more distant
sound as the microphone will pick more of the room's rever-
beration.
You can use this effect to make your voice sound aggressive,
neutral, insinuating, etc. simply by changing your working dis-
tance.
Proximity effect is a more or less dramatic boost of low fre-
quencies that occurs when you sing into the microphone from
less than 2 inches. It gives more "body" to your voice and an
intimate, bass-heavy sound.
Sing to one side of the microphone or above and across the
microphone's top. This provides a well-balanced, natural
sound.
3 Using Your Microphone
Instruments
Brass
Woodwinds
Acoustic guitar
Hi-hat
Cymbals
Snare drum/toms
3.2 Application
Areas
3.3 Vocals
3.3.1 Working
Distance and
Proximity Effect
3.3.2 Angle of
Incidence
Fig. 6: Typical
microphone position.
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