super clean stephen malkmus vocals

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How does he do that. Stephen malkmus's vocals on most of the pavement stuff (brighten the corners, wowee zowee etc) sound super clean..no reverb at all. I have a decent condenser mic, which people seem to reccomend for studio recordings, but it picks up a alot of room sound. what am I doing wrong?is it just a matter of how close you are to the mic or am i using the wrong kind of mic?
 
Im recording in about an 8 by 10 foot room with padding on the walls.. what would you reccomend?
 
jimmydonc said:
Im recording in about an 8 by 10 foot room with padding on the walls.. what would you reccomend?
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That's a topic more for the Studio Building board, but . . . what kind of padding? How much? What is the ceiling surface? The floor?
 
aw man. somany questions. Well..lets get back to my original question. Do you think Malkmus's vocals were recorded with a studio type condenser mic?
 
jimmydonc said:
aw man. somany questions. Well..lets get back to my original question. Do you think Malkmus's vocals were recorded with a studio type condenser mic?
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Here is the equipment list for Mitch Easter's current studio. He recorded Brighten The Corners (prior to this studio being built). The first mic on the list is the Shure SM7, which you may want to look into. I'm not saying Malkmus has ever used an SM7, but it's a world-class dynamic mic that will let a lot less room into the recording than your typical condenser.

Mitch's e-mail is also on the contact page. I've never met him and I have no idea how he'd respond to being contacted with such an inquiry, but you could always just shoot him an e-mail and see if he remembers the vocal chain.
 
thanks! I try to contact him. I see Bryce Goggin did some work with them too. Maybe Ill try to email him too.
 
scrubs said:
Here is the equipment list for Mitch Easter's current studio. He recorded Brighten The Corners (prior to this studio being built). The first mic on the list is the Shure SM7, which you may want to look into. I'm not saying Malkmus has ever used an SM7, but it's a world-class dynamic mic that will let a lot less room into the recording than your typical condenser.

Mitch's e-mail is also on the contact page. I've never met him and I have no idea how he'd respond to being contacted with such an inquiry, but you could always just shoot him an e-mail and see if he remembers the vocal chain.
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Mitch is a great guy and a fellow 3M user. We correspond regularly, but I don't see him often because I don't get to Kernersville that often. I'd love to make one of his winter solstice parties some day, but with four little kids here, it's gonna be a while. If you like, I'll be happy to ping him about it.

As far as getting a good clean sound at the mike, nothing beats the ASC Studio Traps. I pretty much use them around the mike on every track here in my studio. Well, OK, technically, I have Tube Traps on mike stands, but it's acoustically the same and amuses the heck out of Art Noxon that they don't fall over.

Cheers,

Otto
 
I would try running a few recordings with a crisp dynamic that has some 'condenser-like' high end. Get nice and close roll plenty of bass off. Then see if you're closer to the sound you want than you were before.

Having a dead room will help but if that's not possible then naturally you have to improvise. What mics do you already have?
 
lets just assume it was the sony c37 and theres no way you can get a similar vocal track without buying one.
 
noisedude said:
I would try running a few recordings with a crisp dynamic that has some 'condenser-like' high end.
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...the Heil PR40 fits that description to a tee (kinda like an SM7 with a bit more "condenser like" response)...definately worth a look ;)
 
kidvybes said:
...the Heil PR40 fits that description to a tee (kinda like an SM7 with a bit more "condenser like" response)...definately worth a look ;)
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Never heard of it .... tell me more!!
 
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