At 4040 Or 4060 Or 3060

[brooklyn23]

I rap, so im only recording vocals, which one of these mics do you guys suggest?

 

[littledog]

The 4060 is a good microphone, but it will also cost you more than the other two, which are more in the class of budget microphones. It all comes down to whether you can afford it.

 

[RandyW]

Only have the 4040 and it seems to do a lot of things well.
I would imagine the 4060 would do them better.
IMHO I think for rap vocals the 4040 with bass roll off and -10 pad
control would do just fine.

 

[Drewcifer666]

The 4060 is a great mic ,and well worth the dough. It may be a grand or more, but it sounds like a $2K or more vintage tube mic. If you don't have that kind of cake, the AT4047 would be my top suggestion of those mics. I'd also look at the Shure SM7B, the EV RE20, and here's one out of left field but the best of the bunch: The Gefell MT71S. I like it even better than the 4060, and it's not that much more money. Gefell MT71.S It has a fat full smooth sound.

 

[brooklyn23]

haha at these fags giving me hate sayin this

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so immature

 

[littledog]

well, that cetainly sums it up.

 

[Rick Shepherd]

It is not really necessary to post the profanities of others.

 

[brooklyn23]

yea little dog u misinterpreted it, i was posting what someone said it my usercp from this thread, they gave me hate saying that, the profanity wasnt directed towards you or anyone else in this thread, i just posted it wondering why someone would give me hate and say something like that..

 

[petimar]

At4060

Ypu can find the 4050 sometimes on Ebay for around 700.00. That is about what I paid for mine.

 

[Drewcifer666]

yea little dog u misinterpreted it, i was posting what someone said it my usercp from this thread, they gave me hate saying that, the profanity wasnt directed towards you or anyone else in this thread, i just posted it wondering why someone would give me hate and say something like that..

I got the same profanity in my user CP. How do we find who put that in? An' I may be a newbie to this BB, but I ain't no newbie...been a recording engineer/producer for 24 years, dog. And my mom is dead, so that really pissed me off. Help me find who wrote that!

I'm calling out whoever wrote that shite!

 

[bubbagump]

Ypu can find the 4050 sometimes on Ebay for around 700.00. That is about what I paid for mine.

I sure hope you meant the 4060. The 4050 goes for $399 as a refurb on eBay and $599 new at MAP.

 

[soundchaser59]

It took me about 5 minutes to figure out that the "rep power" feedback on this site is total beullsheeit, and deserves not one split second of attention from anybody. I have never paid attention to mine since the day I signed up, and neither should anybody else. The way rep is set up on this site it's a total joke......dont even bother worrying about it or paying any attention to it.

After you accept that truth, take those three mic choices you listed and get the best one you can afford. You wont be disappointed at all.

 

[travelin travis]

It took me about 5 minutes to figure out that the "rep power" feedback on this site is total beullsheeit, and deserves not one split second of attention from anybody. I have never paid attention to mine since the day I signed up, and neither should anybody else. The way rep is set up on this site it's a total joke......dont even bother worrying about it or paying any attention to it.

After you accept that truth, take those three mic choices you listed and get the best one you can afford. You wont be disappointed at all.

Actually, rep points are more of a social status thing around here. For example, I call you a douche bag, you neg rep me for it, and I neg rep you back...........not really representative of anyone's abilities or knowledge of recording but some people seem to have fun with it and that's cool with me. I'd rather be chatting with a bunch of rep drunk hobbyists than some wannabe pro's with sticks in their asses.........not that we don't have some of those here too.

I just listened to some clips from this thread a little bit ago: https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=207427

There are clips of 5 audio technica mics on the same sources, using the same pre and converters. I liked the 4050 out of all of them on "solo" acoustic guitar but on male/female vocals, I can't say that I prefer one over the other. If the guitar track was sitting in a mix, I doubt that I'd have much of a preference. I downloaded all the clips, imported them into my recording software on different tracks and listened blindly. I was surprised how similar they all performed on vocals. A couple were a little more sibilant than others but not to a great degree, to my ears anyway. I listened on both my headphones and monitors. I heard some pretty noticeable differences in the guitar clips but nothing really leaped out to me in any of the vocal clips, especially at my level in this whole recording hobby.

 

[mentalattica]

If you have the $$ definitely consider the 4050, that thing just suprised the hell outta me. It can definitely run with the big-boys. If not, with rap in general I think SM7's are very underestimated dynamic mics (used on a lot of Wu-Tangs older recordings). I've used my AT4040 with good results, it'd be something to look in to.

 

[tone_aot]

I have a studio projects c1 right now and sometimes it is too bright. I've been thinking about getting the at4040. Would this be a good buy? I've heard alot of good reviews on this mic but i've also heard people refer to it as grainy. I'm looking for more of a neutral mic that isn't muddy. I heard you could find an at4040 on ebay sometimes for a little over 200 so that's what i'm shooting for. Trying to decide if i wanna get this mic first, or just get the vtb-1 to go along with my studio projects c1. I heard this preamp smooths out the highs a little so this might be what i'm looking for. Mann!!! Companies are making too much gear to choose from.

 

[travelin travis]

I have a studio projects c1 right now and sometimes it is too bright. I've been thinking about getting the at4040. Would this be a good buy? I've heard alot of good reviews on this mic but i've also heard people refer to it as grainy. I'm looking for more of a neutral mic that isn't muddy. I heard you could find an at4040 on ebay sometimes for a little over 200 so that's what i'm shooting for. Trying to decide if i wanna get this mic first, or just get the vtb-1 to go along with my studio projects c1. I heard this preamp smooths out the highs a little so this might be what i'm looking for. Mann!!! Companies are making too much gear to choose from.

i'd agree that the vtb-1 smooths out the highs a bit.....more like rolls em off a bit.