PRESONUS StudioLive 24.4.2 Owner's Manual page 148

8 Tutorials
8.1 Microphone Types and Placement
Bass Guitar (Direct and Speaker)
Drum Overheads (XY example)
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Plug the electric bass guitar into a passive direct box.
Connect the instrument output from the passive
direct box to a bass amplifier. Place a dynamic
microphone an inch or two away from the speaker
and connect it to a StudioLive microphone input.
Connect the line output from the passive direct box to
a line input on a different channel of the StudioLive.
For recording, place these signals on separate tracks.
During mixing, you can blend the direct and amplifier
signal to taste. This technique can also be used in live
applications.
Place two small-diaphragm condenser microphones
on an XY stereo-microphone holder (bar). Position the
microphones so that each one is at a 45-degree angle,
pointed down at the drum kit, approximately 7 or 8
feet above the floor or drum riser. Experiment with
height. This technique can be used in live applications
as well.
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