junplugged
Taking the slow road
I have a dozen mics, mostly the ones I got info about here in this tread. Either I don't have the ears, or I like all the sounds I get, but I never hear anything bad. And the differences are kind of minimal, but then again, I'm only recording me & my drums, bass, guitar, vox, so it's not like some client wants Alanis' crispy sound that she got on Jagged Pill, or whatever.
OTOH, the biggest differences are between patterns. The directional effect w/ deep bass w/ vocal near a cardiod ldc is big, but all of those that do that again, sound extremely similar. Using an omni up close on my acoustic is amazing, the x/y pattern on directional sdc's are nice. So I'm sticking to the basics and brands don't seem to matter to me. Then again the most expensive mic I ever got is only the 4040, but I just don't really think a Neumann will get me.
ok, the sdc behringer i have is a little tinsely but not so different from my other sdc's like the oktava or 603.
I get a sound, I get a level, I keep it clean and noise free, I like it. done.
I also wonder if the classics we all know and love... did they just use what they had? or did they go out of their way for a specific mic for a specific sound, and if they got the right performance w/ clean sound good levels, I tend to think they used it.
OTOH, the biggest differences are between patterns. The directional effect w/ deep bass w/ vocal near a cardiod ldc is big, but all of those that do that again, sound extremely similar. Using an omni up close on my acoustic is amazing, the x/y pattern on directional sdc's are nice. So I'm sticking to the basics and brands don't seem to matter to me. Then again the most expensive mic I ever got is only the 4040, but I just don't really think a Neumann will get me.
ok, the sdc behringer i have is a little tinsely but not so different from my other sdc's like the oktava or 603.
I get a sound, I get a level, I keep it clean and noise free, I like it. done.
I also wonder if the classics we all know and love... did they just use what they had? or did they go out of their way for a specific mic for a specific sound, and if they got the right performance w/ clean sound good levels, I tend to think they used it.