Marco Ferragina
New member
Hi all, I'm new here at home recording
I'm trying to build a small home recording studio (really small ) just for hobby and the pleasure to learn and get better on my guitar
I've a Martin DCPA4 Rosewood a Rode NT1 connected directly to an old Native Instruments Audio Kontrol 1
I know that the NT1 is not the right mic for acoustic guitar and I don't like it on high frequencies indeed. I've room for improvement in mic position and post recording signal processing and I will experiment in this days but anyway I'm considering buying a more suitable microphone. My recording room is small and untreated (and I can't improve on this)
I'm considering the Rode nt5 or with a wider budget the Shure sm81 (that seems warmer to my ears, listening to online recording samples). My question is: Shure sm81 is worth buying considering my untreated room?
This is a recording using only the Rode NT1. The recording is totally unprocessed (I know the mic position is wrong, and the bass frequencies are "booming")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glv5horrEq8
This is a recording with mixed NT1 and internal guitar piezo microphone, with bass cutted on the NT1 channel ad little bit of reverb added to the mix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjlyArytYCc
I think is much better but still I'm not satisfied with it
I'm opened for all kind of suggestions, but I don't want to spend more than the price of sm81 (about 350-380 €)
Thanks alot
I'm trying to build a small home recording studio (really small ) just for hobby and the pleasure to learn and get better on my guitar
I've a Martin DCPA4 Rosewood a Rode NT1 connected directly to an old Native Instruments Audio Kontrol 1
I know that the NT1 is not the right mic for acoustic guitar and I don't like it on high frequencies indeed. I've room for improvement in mic position and post recording signal processing and I will experiment in this days but anyway I'm considering buying a more suitable microphone. My recording room is small and untreated (and I can't improve on this)
I'm considering the Rode nt5 or with a wider budget the Shure sm81 (that seems warmer to my ears, listening to online recording samples). My question is: Shure sm81 is worth buying considering my untreated room?
This is a recording using only the Rode NT1. The recording is totally unprocessed (I know the mic position is wrong, and the bass frequencies are "booming")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glv5horrEq8
This is a recording with mixed NT1 and internal guitar piezo microphone, with bass cutted on the NT1 channel ad little bit of reverb added to the mix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjlyArytYCc
I think is much better but still I'm not satisfied with it
I'm opened for all kind of suggestions, but I don't want to spend more than the price of sm81 (about 350-380 €)
Thanks alot