[Mike Rivers]

On Mar 10, 9:57 pm, HL0105 wrote:

We had the Recorder on a mic stand. It was level with, and about a
foot away from, the woofer. We would've had to raise it up another
foot or so to make it level with the tweeter.

You need to balance at least three things here. It needs to be far
enough away from the speaker so that you get a well balanced sound,
not the sound of the woofer or the sound of the tweeter. Maybe raising
the mic six inches would have been the best position.

Then, you need to adjust the relative distance between the mic and the
speaker and the mic and the audience. And you also need to recognize
that (assuming the mic is at least somewhat directional) the audience,
assuming you know about the directionality and have oriented the mic
correctly, will be coming into the back side of the mic, which will
have lower sensitivity than the front side, and as well, will have
uneven frequency response.

You just have to experiment with this in each situation. There's no
magic formula, even if you had a tape measure. Hanging the microphone
from the ceiling might work better than putting it on a stand in front
of a speaker.

So you're saying it was that particular placement of the mic?

Yup.