mic advice

[dakivak]

I'm putting together a home studio to record vocals, acoustic guitar,acoustic bass, and drums. I've decided to go with the Yamaha aw4416 as my multitracker and was hoping to pick up two high-quality, multipurpose condensor mics to use on all instruments for the time being (vocals,acoustic instruments,drum overheads). I was thinking of 2 AKG414B/ULS mics, but I recently spoke with a sales engineer at Sweetwater who felt that the 414 wouldn't sound good with the digital aw4416. He recommended I get one Shure ksm32 (for vocals and guitar body) and two AKG c1000's (one for the guitar neck and both for overheads). What I'm wondering is - wouldn't it be better if I just got two ksm32's? I've read great things about those mics on overheads. Would a ksm32 and a c1000 sound better on acoustic guitar for some reason than two ksm32's? Could someone straighten me out!

David

 

[Cave Dweller]

It really depends on how much you want to spend. I have used C1000s on overheads, choirs, vocals and acoustic guitars. However i have also used AKG C3000s with considerably better performance in the same applications. Basically the differance is that the 1000 is small diaphragm and the 3000 is large diaphragm. the 3000 also has cardioid/hyper cardioid selection, -10db attenuation, and bass rolloff. Sorry i have not had experience with the Shures

 

[dakivak]

Thanks. I don't mind spending a bit more on two large condensors if the sound I get will be better. What about recording acoustic guitar using mult-patterns. I've read lots of posts about people having great results from using figure 8 patterns on acoustics. The ksm32 doesn't have patterns but the ksm44 does.

 

[Meshuggah]

You would do very well with two Rode NT-3's.. And from what I've gather around here, I also think 2 matched Octava MC012's (from the sound-room ONLY) or 2 Audio Technica AT4033's will serve your purpose very well..