Condensor vs Dynamic (Without room treatment)

[rattmice]

How mobile is your recording rig? Do you have a large closet? You don't need to spend money...Just get creative. Part your clothes and use that as your vocal room singing into the closet. That should diffuse and absorb the majority of the room reflections. Play around with different fabrics too, heavy sweaters for a real sterile sound or leather coats if you want some reflection. Hope this helps...don't forget me when you go Platinum! Remember it's YOUR sound. Go for what you like and are happy with. I understand genres have certain tones we all like to mimic, but don't be afraid to make it yours. Good luck.

 

[Farview]

Another thing to consider: A dynamic mic will need more gain, possibly more than your interface has. I would keep thr mxl, others have said that the room isnt the issue.

 

[ecc83]

I agree, keep the capacitor mic.
I know things get forked by MP3* encoding but the levels on the clip were pretty hot. The acoustic guitar was "ok" (I would have gone 3-6dB lower) bit once the voice kicked in things got pretty loud and it seemed "squashed" at about -6dBFS.

Now that mic is a really high output jobbie, hotter that most cap' mics and it could be overloading the inputs of the AI (which IS a bit ***T to me as well!) . Invest in one of these perhaps...PSG02973 - PRO SIGNAL - ATTENUATOR ADAPTOR, -20DB, XLR | CPC

They are also available in 10 and 15dB varieties. You want the average level of your recordings sitting at about -18dBFS.

Then, I have always thought the idea of capacitor mics being "room sensitive" a myth.
Most decent AIs have a mic pre gain of about 60dB max. If you were to use an SM57, you would need virtually all of that.
Now drop in almost any cap mic and it will have about 20dB more "gain" (and the mxl even more). Now, not many of us have good pres with 80dB of gain but if you did and bolted on a 57 you would pickup a flea's fart at 20 paces!

*WTF! Can't we attach a couple of megs of .wavs FCS!???
Dave.