Recent content by amarach

for your price range the SM7b is by far and away the best option you have. the condensors you'll be looking at will be fine and flattering but will pick the room and the neighbours et cetera. If you want a coloured sound go for a condensor, if you want the best vocal mic for your budget go for...

SM58 SM7b SP-C1 Oktava MK012 Matched stereo pair Happy days

How about an iPod and the blue Mikey? has anybody used these? it's cheap (if you already have an iPod) and is definately portable.

not averse to the generic "best LDC-under 2 dollars" kind of posts when i first arrived here i know think that in order to start a thread in the microphone forum you should have to take a test on the contents of the BIG THREAD and achieve a passing score.. somewhere around 10% .. ;) because...

i just acquired an sm7b and, my word, it needs a serious amount of preamp gain... nice though...very nice...

double post. sorry.

use the Line input of your soundcard.. the pre-amp should bring the mic level signal up to line level.. it should get rid of the noise

except distortion

good advice all around... the JM-27's are another cheap option for SDC's i picked a pair up on ebay for about €50. basically, get whatever mics you decide upon, read a modicum of theory (Harvey's Big Thread) and start recording. You will have a lot of problems but a pairs of SDC's will start...

hey all, i'm usually over in the microphone forum trying to sort that side of things out...well it just so happens that now that that problem is sorted i've realised another one.... my soundcard (generic - i know, i know:() is noisy as hell. if i press record without any cables or mics or...

the shure on the acoustic will sound fine.. maybe not transcendental, but fine.

very nice indeed... kick drum seems a bit flat... great work though :)

I think instead of a new microphone you should maybe get a pre-amp... the sm57 will sound a thousand times better than it probably does now... anyway without a pre-amp/ mixer you won't be able to use a condensor mic unless you have some other method of supplying phantom power... maybe it's not...

thanks.....

Hello, I've been living in the past for about 5 years now...head in the sand territory...but now, at last, I'm looking into purchasing HomeStudio and have a quick question that i would appreciate a response on. I have been recording using Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 for the past 4/5 years and have...