Help...Condenser or Valve

[Voiceover]

Hello I'm voiceover. I have a Pro Tools Digi 001 with a mic Audio Technica 4033. I want a best sound ( more warm, less noise). I've been thinking in a TLM 103 or AKG Solid Tube and I like Rode NTV or NTK so much. My voice sound great with them. But I don't have a pre. I'm needing a Processing voice like Focusrite Voice Master or Rane VP12 or Presonus VPX. I dont know if I can connect a Valve mic or Tube mic to a transistor pre amp. Could you give me your opinion, please?

pd: perhaps with a Pre Voice Processing with Reduccion noise, compressor, EQ etc...and my AT 4033 is sufficient.....

Voiceover

 

[xtremedb]

Don't go out and spend the money on a new mic yet!!!

First try a good pre with that 4033.

If you're doing voiceovers, you'll want to buy one with a good compressor... or buy a seperate compressor. You'll have to get used to the controls a bit, but once you do, that will help "warm up" your voiceover tracks a great deal.

Hope that helps

Brad Gallagher
http://www.just-for-musicians.com/

 

[nwsoundman]

Voiceover,

The Electrovoice RE20 is a broadcast standard mic that will give a warm tone from the start and a good mic pre and comp like the ones you listed are great choices that will also help. Sometimes a large diaphram condensor is not the best choice for vocal apps.
JMO

 

[The Axis]

AT4033 is a *very* nice mike. It should be more than sufficient with a decent preamp. You could EQ it a little, but that would be a matter of taste.

 

[Voiceover]

Thanks... but anybody can tell me about Presonus VPX or Focusrite Voice master or DBX 376 (tube) or HHB radius 40?
Here where I'm living I cannot test them because there arent all the brands. Thank you.

 

[nwsoundman]

You can use any mic pre you listed with a valve mic. Just don't step on the quality of the mic with a crap pre. If you are going to purchase a new mic I would really audition a RE20. No mic pre will give you the broadcast sound unless you have the right signal feeding it. You can use a lrg diaphram condensor but you have one and don't like the tone I take it. Buying another might help but a high quality dynamic is useful for other tasks too. I have seen a few people try to get the broadcast sound without a RE20 and end up getting one. RE20 + focusrite or avalon = great voiceovers.