Zetajazz44
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I found this on the web and thought some of you might be interested in it:
http://www.record-producer.com/learn.cfm?a=3062
http://www.record-producer.com/learn.cfm?a=3062
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Zetajazz44 said:
I listened through a cheap pair of earbuds. Several people claimed hiss on #2, so it's possible my monitoring environment is leading me to bad judgments here. That said....
A sounds like a dynamic mic. Decent, but hardly $3500 worth. B. sounds like a condenser mic. A lousy sounding condenser mic (either poorly chosen for the voice or poorly placed or both), but a condenser. Either that or they placed a really cheap dynamic mic (with lots of high emphasis) off axis several feet too far away and cranked the gain way up. Either way, it very much didn't suit the speaker's voice.
So my guess is that A is an SM58. B is the $3500 mic that sounds like about a $100 condenser, probably because it's too far away and the room sucks. I mean REALLY sucks. Reflections off multiple surfaces, someone talking in the next room, etc. Not impressed with either mic. A was a better fit for the voice than B, but neither one was what I'd call a good fit. That said, I think B was the more expensive just because A really sounds like a good old tubby SM58 (or maybe PG58).
On the preamps, 3 had a warmer sound with less high end. This was only evident on sample B, though, as there wasn't much high frequency sound in sample A. My guess is it's an older Mackie, but I suppose it could be a tube pre. I doubt it's the expensive one. If so, they paid too much. It doesn't sound warm. It just sounds muddy.
1 had a slightly boxy sound. My guess is that it's a cheap $5 preamp, though I've heard a good many $5 preamps that sounded a lot better.
2 seemed like a good, relatively neutral preamp. If #3 was a tube preamp, #2 was the middle one. It sounds like a modestly high end solid state pre. If #3 was a Mackie mixer, this was the top. Depends on why #2 sounded so rolled off.
Anyway, my guess....
1. Most expensive mic: B
2. Most expensive pre: 2
3. Least expensive pre: 1 (it still sounds better than 3, but I think 3 sounds like my Mackie CR1604 pres, which while lousy, IMHO, aren't cheap)
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