Recordingstuff
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Without any mic snobbery. Are the mics I listed below any better than it? How so?
Rode NT4
MKH 416
RE20
U47
SM7
Coles 4038
RCA 44
L47
Rode NT4
MKH 416
RE20
U47
SM7
Coles 4038
RCA 44
L47
Haha. As I read the post there was a sweetwater ad dierctly below for an Audix mic. OM 6 for 219 bucks
It's a sign.
I may respectfully disagree with that. May not be the only used mic for the voiceover actors listed below, but it's in their collection. Surprisingly a few I haven't listed here are using USB mics such as the AT2020USB+ and have a fair sized list of clients. A few Rode NT1A's can be found as well.Without adding the mic preamp you use and the kind of work you do, that's an impossible question to answer.
For instance, the MKH416 is Hollywood's favourite. It's a very good mic, but not for voice overs. And that despite the fact that you can find dozens of youtube vids showing fools operating an MKH from close range. It's a shotgun mic. At close range, it might sound funny. Go into a humid forest to record birds, and it's your only choice. But it's too bloody expensive to waste it like on voice overs.
The same goes for the RE20 and SM7. Nice mics, but maybe not suited for you since they require a preamp with 60 dB of clean gain. And again, expensive, because they're famous.