Your go-to vocal mic for breathy male vocals

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What's the first mic you'd choose of your collection for breathy, low volume male vocals if you'd not heard the vocalist before?
 
Gefell UM92.1S :D

Listen to the opening of this song - it's kinda "breathy" and low volume (he whispers the begining)

 
oktava mk319

i honestly love that mic to death!
 
Lawson L47mp.

But that's because I own one. If I had all the mics in the world, I might pick something else.
 
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littledog said:
Lawson L47mp.

But that's because I own one. If I had all the mics in the world, I might pick something else.
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M7 capsule copy, eh? :)
 
NL5 said:
M7 capsule copy, eh? :)
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"Design based on" and "copy" might be two different things. For one thing, I believe it is a thinner diaphragm than the actual M7 (2 microns vs. 6?)

But to be honest with you, it's been a long time since I looked at the specs. I've owned it for about 10 years. I could be wrong.
 
littledog said:
"Design based on" and "copy" might be two different things. For one thing, I believe it is a thinner diaphragm than the actual M7 (2 microns vs. 6?)

But to be honest with you, it's been a long time since I looked at the specs. I've owned it for about 10 years. I could be wrong.
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I was just pointing out that your Lawson and the Gefell I mentioned share a similiar capsule. :D
 
TragikRemix said:
oktava mk319

i honestly love that mic to death!
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Someone on another thread just said the 319 was
one of the worst mic's. Someone offered him
$10 and $20 for it.
 
Brackish said:
Someone on another thread just said the 319 was
one of the worst mic's. Someone offered him
$10 and $20 for it.
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then they don't know how it likes to be used :)

i paid $70 for it. wheres that thread at?
 
Don't bother. I'm right here. It was the 219 not the 319.

No one could have gotten a good sound out of mine. Maybe it was a particulalry bad one. Trust me, you don't want mine.
 
I may get flamed, but the Rode NT-1 is actually pretty good at that, imo.
 
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scrubs said:
I may get flamed, but the Rode NT-1 is actually pretty good at that, imo.
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If Tony Faulkner uses Rode mics, they cant be too bad.
 
Actually a NT1-A wouldn't work half bad. I'd get up nice close and personal with it and maybe even use a double layer of pop filtering in front of it. It warms up better than you'd think when you get up on it.
 
superbeatballer said:
Akg D112...
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A lot of unusual suggestions for "breathy" low volume singers. Anybody got some samples? My sample was a "breathy" whisper in a pretty dense mix.....

Maybe I am doing it backwards???
 
i've used the NT-1A, which i think is a great mic for the money.
 
just try a 57 with a toilet paper tube around the top. very breathy sound.
 
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