I was booming for a sound person on set and I noticed that he did the opposite of what I learned to do. Usually when feeding gain to the microphone I have to feed it till the microphone is 'full', which usually seems to be around 60-85 percent, of the gain knob turned up, and it depends on the mic, how full it has to be. Then you set the fader, to however far it needs to go, in order to reach the desired level for good sound.
This sound guy did the opposite and put the fader to 85 percent pretty much or more, and then turned the gain down halfway. I've done that before in trying to figure out how it works, and doing that way, causes me to have everything less louder and fuller, than it should be. But he's a pro sound guy who went to school, and gets lots of gigs, so of course he knows what he's doing. I was wondering, what reasons would their be to do it that way?
This sound guy did the opposite and put the fader to 85 percent pretty much or more, and then turned the gain down halfway. I've done that before in trying to figure out how it works, and doing that way, causes me to have everything less louder and fuller, than it should be. But he's a pro sound guy who went to school, and gets lots of gigs, so of course he knows what he's doing. I was wondering, what reasons would their be to do it that way?