I think you may be misquoting them... perhaps they said it was "dark, on the low side"? To me that would mean that it didn't capture the highs very well... Anyway, your high-pass or low cut is easily set by setting the cut close to the frequency of the lowest note of the song. E3 = 164.81Hz. Dig? Here's a chart: www . phy.mtu.edu/~suits/notefreqs. html Frequencies of Musical Notes[/url] I'd probably use a more "lemmony pancake" mic with a bit of "staunch ice shaving" if that's what you're looking for... sort of like a lemon ice shave eaten too fast kind of mic with the purple flan rolled off with a deflanger... just kidding. But for brightening the sound of a mic (if you don't have something else to use), just use a gentle EQ curve in post (in addition to the low cut) - subtract lows or add highs, up to you. If you're totally lost, or if you don't trust your monitors, do an A/B Mash. Put a song from a commercial CD of the same genre in your mix and play your vocal and it together. You will immediately know where you stand. If you can tell them apart, that's bad. If it sounds like a real mess, that's good.