Does the SP B1 pick up extrenuous room noise?

[SeventhWave]

I'm just asking as I'm thinking of getting this as an acoustic guitar/vocal mic...

I use my computer to record (in a small room with carpet floors and plaster walls) and am wondering how other home recorders find their computers noise with this mic.

thanks

 

[ausrock]

Virtually any mic will pick up some degree of background/room noise. Condensers are IMHO much more prone to it than dynamics, consequently the B1 won't be any worse than the majority of condenser mics on the market.

They are all capable of picking up a sparrow's fart at 5 mtrs, if not further, so the idea is to find ways to control the background noise. In other words deal with noise problems at their source

 

[ozraves]

if you've got one of those amd xp+ louder than a windstorm cpu coolers then no mic will save you from cpu noise.

sames goes for most power supply fans as well.

anyhow, the b1 is sufficiently directional to minimize computer noise. it's a good choice for acoustic guitar. i would never put one up as a vocal mic.

steve
www.mojopie.com

 

[DJL]

I'm just asking as I'm thinking of getting this as an acoustic guitar/vocal mic...

I use my computer to record (in a small room with carpet floors and plaster walls) and am wondering how other home recorders find their computers noise with this mic.

thanks

"Does the SP B1 pick up extrenuous room noise?"

Well, not really anymore than other LDC mic's... the SP B1 is an ok budget type mic and well worth $80... but, I prefer the Marshall MXL603S for recording acoustic guitar.

 

[Robertt8]

As mentioned by everyone, any mic will pick up background noise, but it's no worse than any other condenser mic.

I own a B1. and actually put my lyrics on the computer for easy reading and editing, but would always print them out during recording because I did notice a slight hum from the fan of my computer (using an external 8 track for recording), but I was micing literally a foot or two from the thing, and as soon as you start playing, you really can't hear it. I'd get a lot more noise from other stuff like cars going by on the street, but if you're micing close enough, you're really not going to notice it...especially when you can silence the quite parts or do some creative fader controlling.

I've never used the 603.

 

[chessparov]

By learning to use a proper low end EQ cut, you will cut down on
ambient noise considerably. Plus it comes in handy for close
miking vocals, with the same end result.

Do you have a parametric EQ?

With all due respect, the B1 sounded very good when I've
recorded my practice vocals with it.
The quality of a vocal performance (or lack thereof!), is a much larger factor than "which microphone" BTW.

Besides, another use of a parametric EQ is to tweak things during
mixdown to have the option to enhance the track.

Chris