[Harp-L] What's so bad about micing to a PA?

["sam Blancato" <samblancato@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Put the microphone between the center and the edge of ONE of your speaker
cones.  Putting the mic in the center of the grill is putting it where
there's a piece of plywood.  You want to place the microphone where the most
active speaker excursions are which is half way between the center and the
edge of the cone.  
 
Sam 
 
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From: pdxharpdog@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pdxharpdog@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 12:29 AM
To: RhythmShark
Cc: sam Blancato; Harp-L
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] What's so bad about micing to a PA?
 
Where would y'all recommend micing an amp that has twin speakers?  My
HarpGear 30 has twin 8s - the sound guy at my last gig stuck a 57 directly
between the two speaker edges - I didn't think it sounded good at all so I
moved it to the middle of one of the speakers. He seemed a bit miffed, but
whatever - I didn't like it.