Incubus look alive dvd - BVs vocal mics pointing upwards

**Blast9** · 28th June 2008

Any practical reason for doing this? My first thought was eliminating bleed from backline and monitors for recording purposes ?

funkdrmr · 4th July 2008

Incubus' BV mics were pointed like this here in Honolulu when I saw them a few months back.

Could be cool if someone knows why they have them like that.

**Remoteness** · 4th July 2008

Does anyone have a picture of the singing into them?

**Blast9** · 7th July 2008

here's a clip from Jimmy Kimmel - you can see both BV mics are pointing upwards - maybe it is justa practical solution to make it easy to see the fretboard...

damn... embed doesn't work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HhVDrIVk_M

**Remoteness** · 8th July 2008

I bet they do this to minimize the cymbal bleed.

What do you folks think?

huub · 8th July 2008

I so very much hope to mix and/or record incubus at some point.. I loooove their sound..

**Remoteness** · 8th July 2008

Yes, I feel the same way...

They have a unique sound that I would love to capture.

talbe1019 · 8th July 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Remoteness

I bet they do this to minimize the cymbal bleed.

What do you folks think?

Maybe they have the monitors cranked up extremely loud and pointed up would give the least amount of stage volume into the mic.
Not really a huge incubus fan...but definitely very unique.

**Remoteness** · 8th July 2008

Based only on the Kimmel video clip (provided above) everyone seems to be wearing "in-ears" and there are no floor wedges that I can see...

But, you never know what the real story is until you hear it from their engineer or PM.

talbe1019 · 8th July 2008

Duh...no monitors...So who knows.

**Remoteness** · 8th July 2008

That's why I guessed cymbal leakage and stuff.

28th June 2008	#1
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funkdrmr Gear maniac Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 179	Incubus' BV mics were pointed like this here in Honolulu when I saw them a few months back. Could be cool if someone knows why they have them like that.

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Blast9 Moderator Joined: Dec 2003 Location: London Posts: 4,597 Thread Starter	here's a clip from Jimmy Kimmel - you can see both BV mics are pointing upwards - maybe it is justa practical solution to make it easy to see the fretboard... damn... embed doesn't work http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HhVDrIVk_M

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huub Lives for gear Joined: Apr 2005 Location: amsterdam Posts: 1,208	I so very much hope to mix and/or record incubus at some point.. I loooove their sound..

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talbe1019 Gear maniac Joined: Aug 2007 Location: Cleveland, Ohio Posts: 274	Duh...no monitors...So who knows.