Track Rat said:
Han, I believe the entire point of this particular thread is to learn to use WHAT YOU HAVE, not what you wish you had. I'd love to pull out the Elam-251's next time I do vocals but unfortunately I don't have any.
You certainly have a point. When I started recording many years ago I had only one MD421 and a Tascam 3440 with a Teac 2A 6 in 4 out board.
I've done some pretty good sounding recordings with that setup after I'd learned how to use it.
In the mid 90's I recorded a CD with a great jazz band, really great players. I only had a number of dynamic mics like the 421's, a couple of beyers, two MD441, which I used for recording mallets and the condensers I had were two C1000's
The board was a small
Seck 1882 (18 in 8 out) and the recorder was a Tascam MSR. The recording is an "all at once", a "one taker". All musicians in one small room.
The CD got CD of the month in a Hi Fi Audio magazine and got a 10 for sound quality, which I'm proud of.
You can hear a fragment of the CD on my website. The band is "The Troupe" and it's a fragment of "Wannabe Gonnabe".
Later I bought a hi end board, two inch machines and hi end mics which make life easier, but sound quality is not only a matter of good gear.
It still amazes me how good an inexpensive peace of gear can sound if you know how to use it and for what.
A $79 dynamic can give you the sound you're after while a $4000 Neumann will not, but a clarinet will sound beautiful with the Neumann.
I've heard a great sounding grand piano which was recorded with two Radio Shack PZM's
I guess that's what this threat is about.