Might want to look up the frequency response of the microphone you are using also (on a search on the Internet).
Although the mic may say it goes down to 40Hz or whatever, still it may roll off on its own.
There is a place that lists a lot of mics and also the frequency response (usually given by the company making the mic anyway, but still..................) May want to look a those if not included with the microphone.
 

I guess I didn't read the subject... I thought it was asking about pads...
 
:-)
 
... probably because I've been thinking about pads and mics.

bitflipper
 Sure, you can filter them out after the fact, but if you're recording through a compressor you'll definitely want to remove them at the source. They may also determine how much gain you can get from the mic pre, since a low-frequency pop can easily have twice the energy of the main vocal and cause unexpected clipping.

Exactly.
 
 

LpMike75

bitflipper
 Sure, you can filter them out after the fact, but if you're recording through a compressor you'll definitely want to remove them at the source. They may also determine how much gain you can get from the mic pre, since a low-frequency pop can easily have twice the energy of the main vocal and cause unexpected clipping.

Exactly.

 
Thanks. I'm shall be doing a test recording on the classical piano earlier on that day. It's going to be recorded clean, no effect, directly into the Tascam DP 24 (and later mix with Sonar).
 
I'll check both setting and come up with a decision then. Since the Tascam can record up to 8 tracks at once, I might add a mic (mono) with the opposite setting for safety.. not sure if it's a good idea, but I think it won't hurt to experiment.

I am inclined to agree with Daniel on this. Don't be in too much of a hurry to use a HPF with piano. Even though the player may not go down low, sometimes switching the HPF in will just slice off that beautioful depth you can get down low.  It is better under certain circumstances to leave it out and record full range. The beauty of this is you can always use a steeper HPF lower down to remove any real subsonic material without effecting the low end of the piano much.
 
If you record wiith the HPF on you may kill that very nice low end and no amount of EQ will get it back later.
 
I sometimes leave it out even while recordiong a female singer and we know the gals are not going down as low as the guys are yet I still feel that sometimes leaving the HPF out on the female voice can have just a slightly more fuller sound to it.
 
I find the HPF is more useful when the mic is put near something that has got an excessive amount of low end involved and it can just be the ticket for clearing things up and improving the sound in the rest of the spectrum.