John Mayes
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Ok So I had a guy come in to record some vocals for a CD track that was already recorded. He has a tenor voice and is a well controled singer. I tested out his vocals on all 4 mics and here were the results:
Neumann TLM103:
Crisp and Clear, but well rounded. Not a lot of Bass, but ok warmth.
Rode NTK:
VERY similar to the TLM103 but slight bit more bass response the key word being slight. That slight bit really helped things out with this particular singer though. It was very crisp, clear and quiet.
MXL V67G:
For this singer it was to looser of the bunch (although admiditly out priced by a large margin) It was too tinny sounding for his voice and sounded somewhat distant. I have used it with luck on bass singers voiced though and I suspect that is a better match as the two complement each other. It was fairly neutral, with even bass response but just sounded...well cheap for a lack of better terms. I say all this only in context to this particular singer however, and not as a genral bash on this Mic.
MXL V69M:
The warmest sound of the bunch and it would have been the choice if it had not been for when the singer really belted it out it lost a little bit of detail. I think it if would have been a softer song then this would have been the choice. It was warm, bordering on darker sounding, but still had a open top end but lacked some defintion on the mids. All in all a great mic worth every penny.
So we went with the Rode NTK after testing out all 4 mics and the track came out nice. I would reccomend the NTK, 103, and V69M to anyone for many circumstances, but the V67G I would say should be left for people with bigger boomier voices that are not in need of added presence.
Neumann TLM103:
Crisp and Clear, but well rounded. Not a lot of Bass, but ok warmth.
Rode NTK:
VERY similar to the TLM103 but slight bit more bass response the key word being slight. That slight bit really helped things out with this particular singer though. It was very crisp, clear and quiet.
MXL V67G:
For this singer it was to looser of the bunch (although admiditly out priced by a large margin) It was too tinny sounding for his voice and sounded somewhat distant. I have used it with luck on bass singers voiced though and I suspect that is a better match as the two complement each other. It was fairly neutral, with even bass response but just sounded...well cheap for a lack of better terms. I say all this only in context to this particular singer however, and not as a genral bash on this Mic.
MXL V69M:
The warmest sound of the bunch and it would have been the choice if it had not been for when the singer really belted it out it lost a little bit of detail. I think it if would have been a softer song then this would have been the choice. It was warm, bordering on darker sounding, but still had a open top end but lacked some defintion on the mids. All in all a great mic worth every penny.
So we went with the Rode NTK after testing out all 4 mics and the track came out nice. I would reccomend the NTK, 103, and V69M to anyone for many circumstances, but the V67G I would say should be left for people with bigger boomier voices that are not in need of added presence.
Especially since I passed on the TLM 103 that I always thought I was gonna get, and bought the NTK instead.