The question every beginner asks, and it has a real answer. Direct sound falls away with distance and the room's sound does not — which makes the mic stand the most powerful reverb control you own, and it costs nothing.
Every discussion of microphone placement eventually arrives at a single question, and it is usually the first one anybody asks: how far away should the mic be? It gets answered with numbers that sound like folklore — a hand's width from a guitar cab, a foot from an acoustic, back a bit for drums.
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