Most annoying question asked on this board

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What is the most annoying question repeatedly asked at this board?

  • What is the best low cost recording mic?

    Votes: 41 22.2%

  • What is the best mic for rap vocals?

    Votes: 97 52.4%

  • Are those $10 knockoffs really as good as a SM57/U87/etc?

    Votes: 22 11.9%

  • Other (please specify for all our enjoyment)?

    Votes: 25 13.5%
  • Total voters
    185
I spent almost a year reading posts here even before I signed up as a member. I never ask any question here because I know how to use the SEARCH function. If I cant find the answer to my question here I go to some other forum to do another SEARCH there. I always get the ans.

Another words I let others ask the STUPID questions.
 
BadAE said:
I spent almost a year read posts here even before I signed up as a member. I never ask any question here because I know how to use the SEARCH function. If I cant find the answer to my question here I go to some other forum to do another SEARCH there. I always get the ans.

Another words I let others ask the STUPID questions.
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Shut up. You post too much.

:D
 
What is the most annoying question repeatedly asked at this board?

Q: What is the most annoying question repeatedly asked at this board?

A: "What is the BEST [insert any noun here]?"


...Mics are like anything else in this world, IMHO, and there is no single "BEST" mic for any purpose at all times. It has been my personal experience that what may strike you as the "best" mic one day, may sound like @ss the following day.

-mr moon
 
Everything has pros and cons otherwise there would only ever be one mic, one amp, one preamp, one type of cable, one monitor, one speaker, one whatever-else-you-studio-guys-use, etc. If there was a definative everyone would buy it amnd there would be no reason for anything else to exist.
 
Maybe rap vocals feel that they're different and they need something different (and special) for their recording.
 
I can't believe....

No one has mentioned this one:

I want to WARM UP my recordings, which sound so COLD and DIGITAL. I've heard great stuff about ... (insert Presonus Blue Tube, Art Tube MP or any other variety of "tewb").....

Can you help??

(Cue Chessrock)
 
Do the twist!

jndietz said:
"Is the head on the SM57 supposed to twist around?"
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Er.... I would have never post a threat with that question but... now that you mention it... is the head on the SM57 supossed to twist around? :p
 
Any question that asks other people to tell them how to use:

A) Gear they own

B) Gear they have purchased but is "on the way"

to acheive "their" sound.

Makes me want to rip off my skin and jump out a window.

War

The funny thing is though, the one thing that makes each of these questions annoying is that the answer cannot really help so it doesn't matter. These are matters of skill, engineers make sub $100 mics sound good due to experience. You can tell an aspiring recordist "SM57" all day long, and you can tell him that Tom Petty uses one a lot, but you can't give him the 25 years of experience the engineer had in using that tool to sound right in that mix. Not to mention...we have no idea what sound YOU like as all of this stuff is subjective.
 
killthepixel said:
Maybe rap vocals feel that they're different and they need something different (and special) for their recording.
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Hold on, I gotta put on my flame suit:

Rap is talking. Sometimes loud, sometimes soft, sometimes angry, sometimes happy (rare), but it is talking. It's talking over loops and beats that mind you, take a certain level of skill and thought to put together, but it's the easiest stuff around to engineer.

Mixing it can be a whole different ball game though.

TRS output from a Motif or a drum machine, guy talking into a microphone, you got yourself a rap album if you put your mind to it. Like most styles of entertainment it's the talent that makes the difference so shitty rappers sound like...shit. It ain't the mic...

I better keep my flame suit on for a few minutes maybe. :D

War
 
Contrary to what some may have anticipated, I vote “What is the best mic for rap vocals?”

People asking this question usually make other rappers look dense. If anybody considers asking “what is the best _____ for rap vocals”, you need to consider using the search function.
For almost every piece of hardware ever conceived, there has been a guy with >15 posts asking if it is good for rap.
 
Recording a rap vocal is just like recording any other vocal. You have to listen to how the artist performs and adjust to make it sound the best. That's why the "rap Mic" question is annoying. Any mic you use to make rap is a rap mic, if it sounds good... then it's a "good rap mic"!!!
 
End of "RAP" mic discussion. The final answer is:

MXL V67g.
 
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