Spoken Voice

[apl]

So what's a good mic for recording a group of people having a conversation? I mean that each person would have their own mic and be sitting around a table.

 

[bennychico11]

Electro voice RE20
Rode Broadcaster
Shure SM7B

or you can get a surface mount boundary mic

 

[Erockrazor]

My town's board of education uses sm58's or cheaper dynamics. I've always read that it's hard to go wrong for spoken word.

Like bennychico said the RE20 and SM7 are popular choices but when you're going to need a few that could rack up the bills.

I actually wanna go for an sm7 right now...

 

[sguitarf]

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If you see White House and other government things on TV, they use Shure SM57's. The absolute most popular vocal mic for movie and TV voiceovers in the studio; such as an animated film, is the Neumann U-87. The Studio Projects C-1 has stunned everyone with blind listening comparisons to the $2,700 classic, for about 10% of the price.

 

[apl]

If you see White House and other government things on TV, they use Shure SM57's. The absolute most popular vocal mic for movie and TV voiceovers in the studio; such as an animated film, is the Neumann U-87. The Studio Projects C-1 has stunned everyone with blind listening comparisons to the $2,700 classic, for about 10% of the price.

I've got a C-1 but I don't wanna pony up for three more. I might get some more 57 knockoffs.

 

[daav]

If you see White House and other government things on TV, they use Shure SM57's. The absolute most popular vocal mic for movie and TV voiceovers in the studio; such as an animated film, is the Neumann U-87. The Studio Projects C-1 has stunned everyone with blind listening comparisons to the $2,700 classic, for about 10% of the price.

Seems odd to reccomend a LDC for this application? I know you mention "int he studio", but assuming that the people sitting around a conference table don't each have a personal vocal booth as well, those mics would pick up room noise and bleed to the point it would be painful to hear, i would imagine.

Daav

 

[antichef]

yeah, I pretty much always see 57s and 58s for that application (usually some mixture of the two, and that may just be because there weren't enough of one or the other)

 

[chessrock]

Electrovoice 635A.

When people are talking around a table, they're not likely to be cognizant of microphone technique. Trust me on this one, okay? The only person in the entire room who will even give two small shits about how they are positioned in relation to the mic, and/or how well the recording turns out ...

... is you.

If you situate a bunch of 635-A's around the table, you should be good to go, and won't have to worry about people wandering away from the mic, turning their head, looking down or to the side, etc. As long as they are within reasonable vicinity to the mic ... they will get picked up and it will sound pretty decent.

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[timboZ]

Pull out the old PZM on the forehead trick.

 

[snow lizard]

+1 for the PZM headband. It would be nice if Thomas Nordegg were here to explain more about the technique.

Another thing that might work is having a single LDC set to omni somewhat up and in the middle of all the voices.


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[danny.guitar]

I'd love to go in for a conference and have some dude tell me to strap a thing around my head...

 

[thajeremy]

I'd love to go in for a conference and have some dude tell me to strap a thing around my head...

just any ol' thing???