I haven't done an annoying 'quote and reply to each line individually' response recently
why we buy expensive mics????
Define expensive?
$50?
$500?
$5000?
There's so many different mics out there, you have to be a bit more specific. Are we talking
really expensive boutique mics (i.e. thousands of $$$), or those priced reasonably within most of our home studio budgets, but might still seem expensive to some?
I've seen people considering $30 to be expensive for a mic before, whilst some pro studios might not even bat an eyelid when they get another spare U87 as a backup for their nice vintage tube mics.
we need mic to sing , and why a expensive mic is better than others???
You don't need a mic to sing, you need a mic to capture the singing.
The mic is just one link in your signal chain, which is part of the route from the source to final mix. Factors to consider are...
- the source
- the room
- the mic
- the preamp
- the storage (for most people nowadays this will relate to the AD conversion for going into a computer)
- any signal processing
- placement in the mix
- your monitoring setup and ability to judge and make appropriate decisions for factors mentioned above
- you
But like any chain, it is only as strong as its weakest link.
Think of it like a camera - whilst you would still be able to frame and take 'the same photo' with a point-and-shoot budget camera, if you were serious about taking that photo you would probably want a better camera. "Better" can sometimes be difficult to quantify. Note that better doesn't necessarily have to mean more expensive. A better camera might just be one more suited to the job... a DSLR with a good CCD and nice interchangeable lenses. In the right hands you could take a much better picture with this than with the point-and shoot; the scene would be the same, but the photo would be better.
Continuing the analogy, it also comes a lot down to who is handling the camera. A professional with a point-and-shoot could probably take a much better picture than someone with a really nice DSLR but who doesn't have a clue what they're doing.
Finally and most importantly, if the scene is rubbish in the first place, the final photo is going to be rubbish regardless of the camera, photographer, etc etc!
So? EQ is just a tool.
It cannot change a sound, it can only change the balance of frequencies within in.
It can be used to subtly enhance or control the tone of a well recorded signal, but you cannot expect to sculpt something good out of a poorly recorded signal with EQ.
u can change ur voice to male or female with melodyne vst
Err, I have to admit that I've never heard of someone using Melodyne to do that before! But really, what does this have to do with what mic you use?
Short of the questions this statement begs such as...
If you can change your voice to both male or female, what is it to begin with!?
...and...
Why can't you just get the gender/voice of the singer correct in the first place?
...you would do the same processing to achieve this effect regardless of the cost of your signal chain.
u can make ur vocal robotic with antares
Ditto, as above.
if ur mic is bad and that record breath too . so take ur mic under ur lip and sing a bit louder
Mic technique is just as important with decent mics.
Breaths are still picked up by decent mics.
Again, this is a mix tool that you may or may not use regardless of what mic you use. An exception to this might be in a top pro studio with really nice rooms you might mic from further away or use room mics and capture a the nice natural room reverb / ambiance, but again this is straying in relevance from the topic of mics.
What noise? Noise that shouldn't be there in the first place, and by 'removing' seriously impacts the audio quality, introduces very noticeable artifacts, etc, etc.
I don't get what people have with normalisation? It does
nothing useful.
It simply applies gain (+ve or -ve) to a track such that it never peaks above a certain level. Its not compression, dynamics processing, or any kind of signal processing at all. It doesn't contribute or help with mixing, except if you tracked quite hot and are having to keep all your faders quite low to keep the levels on the master in check, in which case you should be tracking at more appropriate levels (never a good idea to try and push anywhere near 0db on input anyway) to allow yourself some headroom when mixing.
and delayyyy ....and many more
And once again, what does this have to do with what mic you use!?
all i need is a mic that i can record my vocal and make it a clean and good vocal
The mic doesn't make it a good vocal.
The processing doesn't make it a good vocal.
The sound and technique of the singer singer is what makes it a great vocal, and the mic (amongst the rest of the signal chain) is just there to capture it in the cleanest, highest quality way that ultimately best suits where that vocal is intended to sit into the mix.
now , what mic i have to buy ???
What is your budget?
Have you auditioned any mics?
What is your vocal style?
The rest of your signal chain?
