Hello everyone. This is my first post on this sight. I am really sorry if I am writing when I should be reading- I'm sure there are a hundred posts out there which answer my questions. I find, though, that my eyes glaze over after a while with all the disembodied model no.s that like-minded audiophiles like yourselves keep referring to. AKA 12333…… Blue Bottles……. Beta @$£##s…. So I will ask and hopefully you can help me out.
I am an enthusiastic songwriter and I need a better mic than I have presently. My existing mic was advertised on eBay as being 'indistinguishable from an SM58'- it's shit. It's done me good survice, but it's shit. So I need a new one.
The demos I make are definitely 'demos' and I'm not attempting anything better. I record drums, base and piano using my keyboard. Up till now I have been using the pre-programmed voices on my keyboard and no midi. The keyboard sounds have absolutely no dynamism or 'life'. I record my acoustic guitar using a cheap internal pickup I fitted myself. It needs a load of eq to even sound like a guitar! All the songs I have recorded have a pinched, nasal, strangled, flat sound and because of that my bad mic has sort of fitted into the mix ok.
The one diamond in the mud I possess is my Edirol ua-25. It's basic but a very nice little thing that definitely suits my needs. And I want to SOUND better. I know I won't sound perfect but at least I can get decent sound reproduction; at least I can invest in a mic to match my sound card quality and give my recordings some life and warmth and 'space'.
I use my existing rubbishy mic primarily to sing into, and my voice suits dynamic mics as I like to sing into it quite a bit. So my new mic should ideally have the properties of an sm58. But I would like to record my guitar externally. I don't have the money for two mics right now so I was wondering does a mic exist that would be well suited to handle vocals and guitar? I was thinking maybe a powered mike that you could switch to different modes. What do you think?
Thanks for your patience.
Tony
I am an enthusiastic songwriter and I need a better mic than I have presently. My existing mic was advertised on eBay as being 'indistinguishable from an SM58'- it's shit. It's done me good survice, but it's shit. So I need a new one.
The demos I make are definitely 'demos' and I'm not attempting anything better. I record drums, base and piano using my keyboard. Up till now I have been using the pre-programmed voices on my keyboard and no midi. The keyboard sounds have absolutely no dynamism or 'life'. I record my acoustic guitar using a cheap internal pickup I fitted myself. It needs a load of eq to even sound like a guitar! All the songs I have recorded have a pinched, nasal, strangled, flat sound and because of that my bad mic has sort of fitted into the mix ok.
The one diamond in the mud I possess is my Edirol ua-25. It's basic but a very nice little thing that definitely suits my needs. And I want to SOUND better. I know I won't sound perfect but at least I can get decent sound reproduction; at least I can invest in a mic to match my sound card quality and give my recordings some life and warmth and 'space'.
I use my existing rubbishy mic primarily to sing into, and my voice suits dynamic mics as I like to sing into it quite a bit. So my new mic should ideally have the properties of an sm58. But I would like to record my guitar externally. I don't have the money for two mics right now so I was wondering does a mic exist that would be well suited to handle vocals and guitar? I was thinking maybe a powered mike that you could switch to different modes. What do you think?
Thanks for your patience.
Tony