Mic placement in tracking room

[Daustinhall]

I have a finished basement I use for music rehearsal and hobby recording. In the various REW guides, I only see mic placement suggestions for the "listening spot" which makes sense in a home theatre or mixing control room, but if I plan to have microphones in a wide variety of locations in the room when recording, where do I place the mic to get measurements in REW?

 

[John Mulcahy]

Best making measurements wherever you plan to have mics.

 

[Daustinhall]

Where would I put the monitor for the sine sweeps? Everywhere a drum might be? That could be hundreds of places x hundreds of places mics might be placed.
Do you just grab as many as you can and hope for the best?

 

[John Mulcahy]

Good point Measure in a variety of places in the room, making sure the monitor is not close to the mic (at least a couple of metres away).

 

[Wayne A. Pflughaupt]

…but if I plan to have microphones in a wide variety of locations in the room when recording, where do I place the mic to get measurements in REW?

What is the point of this exercise? IOW, what are you trying to determine from it?

Regards,
Wayne

 

[Sonnie]

Wouldn't it be to find out what the best response locations would be for the various mics? Position x has a better response than position y. Avoid the null spots in the room.

Of course that would change with several bodies in the room.