I know this belongs in the mike forum, but I don't know anyone there and needed to check in here as I've been away a while. So ...
How is everyone? Busy Fosteching, I hope. Had this notion about mikes as I was recording today:
Probably just me, but I use my condensers to mike my guitar only. I've been singing thru my sm57. For whatever reason, it just sounds better. I sing on key but have a lot of (to me) faintly unpleasant overtones or rasps or something in my voice, and the condensers are either too detailed or I just don't know how to use them. One other thing: probably just me, but I need to relax when I sing, and there's something about holding the sm57 in my hand and just wailing into it that is ... relaxing somehow. Who knows. I like the result. I probably could ahv elearned to mike EVERYTHING with that 57, or maybe 2, and saved some money. Live and learn.
P.s. you guys are killing me with this eq business: I eq the guitar a little, but don't really know what I'm doing; just trimming the treble a little here, trimming the bass of my booming martin d35 there, and just save the result when it sounds right. You guys sound like rocket scientists by comparison.
Maybe i need to go to a clinic.
How is everyone? Busy Fosteching, I hope. Had this notion about mikes as I was recording today:
Probably just me, but I use my condensers to mike my guitar only. I've been singing thru my sm57. For whatever reason, it just sounds better. I sing on key but have a lot of (to me) faintly unpleasant overtones or rasps or something in my voice, and the condensers are either too detailed or I just don't know how to use them. One other thing: probably just me, but I need to relax when I sing, and there's something about holding the sm57 in my hand and just wailing into it that is ... relaxing somehow. Who knows. I like the result. I probably could ahv elearned to mike EVERYTHING with that 57, or maybe 2, and saved some money. Live and learn.
P.s. you guys are killing me with this eq business: I eq the guitar a little, but don't really know what I'm doing; just trimming the treble a little here, trimming the bass of my booming martin d35 there, and just save the result when it sounds right. You guys sound like rocket scientists by comparison.
Maybe i need to go to a clinic.