AT 4040 Microphone

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Could anyone explain what type of sound this provides for vocals? What kind of voices does it suit? Deep voices? Low-Mids? What?

I have this mic and everything seems to be coming out muddy. Or could the muddiness be coming from the mic placement or my booth. I have a 4X5 closet with the ceiling and all the walls covered in 2" acoustic foam. I'd say I have a semi-deep, basically a low-midranged voice.

http://www.soundclick.com/verbalist

I'm on the hook and first verse, so you can listen to see what type of voice I have. Does this mic fit me? If not, what other mics would you suggest and if it does suit my voice then what could I do about my booth?

Thank you for all the help and time.
 
Did ya....

Do a SEARCH?

I know there is a ton of info on here for that particular mic.
 
What kind of pre do you have? That might make a difference. You might just need to eq a bit of the sounds out of the mix you don't want. To me, it just sounds a bit hot. TRy turning your pre-amp down a little, or moving away from the mic a little bit. When I got a new pre, i moved back a bit from teh mic, as it seemed to capture my voice a bit too much. i have a 4040 and a DMP3. My voice is extremely rough....think Lemmy from Motorhead. It actually captures it pretty much the way it sounds, so I have to use some eq on the vocs..
I think the vocals sound good in this mix, just need a bit of work in the eq department, and maybe some compression.
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ozraves, I did use a the roll-off switch. Dogman I have the Roland MMP-2 for a preamp. I never really like boosting the hi's or hi-mids, so I'll do a drop off at around 80hz usually, then I'll say too myself "Is this too bassy?" (which with my voice is usually is) then I'll adjust the lo-mids, but sometimes it'll sound too tiny, then I boost em back up and then they sound muddy and dull again and I can never find a good point in between em. I know I have to work on my EQ'ing though, I wish I were better at it. :) Thanks for all the help.
 
Covering an entire room in 2" foam will tend to make it sound muddy. You basically kill all the highs but still have low mids and bass bouncing around since foam isn't really effective on lower frequencies.
 
Ahhhh so what should I do reshp1? Is there any cheap ways of fixing this?

Thanks for notifying me.
 
Try taking down roughly half of the panels, so you have a checkerboard pattern. Also, if you want you can have a blank spot on one wall directly across from a foam spot on another. You'd still be killing flutter echos, but the overall high frequency absorbtion won't be so drastic. If you have a heavy comforter/duvet, you can hang it over a boom mic stand, directly behind the mic, that might reduce the "room" sound recorded along with you direct voice.
Disclaimer: I'm no expert on acoustics, at all. Try posting your question in the studio building forum if you want the acoustics guru's to see it.
 
Better yet, you could try getting the heck out of the closet.

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latley in the studio i intern at, weve become rather fond of the 4047 when compared to others, like the blue bottle, at 4040, akg c414, etc.

bth on vocals and as overheads
 
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