I have searched the Rode microphone range and cannot find an "H 1" What manner of microphone is it?
That’s the Era of Tape - Basic Mixers - Minimal Effects - First you’ll want to limit the response of the Microphone - using EQ very subtlety - then you want basic compression - a Fet or VCA style - and a Chamber Reverb or sometimes a Plate Reverb - but the most important ingredient - Technqiue - most of the 50/60s crooners had excellent mic technique - and that superseded all of the gear - so work on polishing your vocals first - then go with the gear.
This is the ticket.
Ah, that would make more sense. The NT-1 is not your "classic" vocal mic but will I am sure be fine. LDC mics of course are normally used at a distance, a foot or more and with a pop screen. They are therefore going to have very little proximity effect so the voice might sound a bit 'thin'. Again, results are highly dependent of the actual voice.
Large Diameter Condenser?
Well, if you like but since we are 150 years on from Mr Faraday I prefer the modern term "Capacitor". Even when someone as ancient as I who started 'tech' in the '60s the term "condenser" was reserved as part of steam engines!
I always thought the condenser was part of a moonshine still!
Fair enough Rich, I don't want to get into a cow on my hobby horse! You have to remember though that most of the info from such companies is written by the Adpuff dept, not the engineers and so we still have mathematical absurdities like "rms" friggin watts and audio stages that "saturate a bit" when it is obvious the writer does not have a 'KING clue what the word means!I always thought the condenser was part of a moonshine still!
Neumann calls them condenser mics, Shure calls them condenser mics, Beyer calls them condenser mics. Who am I to contradict those industry bigwigs?
Hmmm. "it DON'T".
Well that was for comedic/dramatic effect. My "grammar" is I think about as good as you would expect from a kid who left school at 16 (just) with no GCEs and started fixing things for a living?