In the recording studios
I work in I have tried many mics (dynamics and condensers), and I have started
to use mainly a shure sm 56 on congas and bongos, reinforced with some
condensers to add some room (sm 86 and AKG C1000s). The other day I had to mic
some percussions for a concert in a theatre and I have tried a couple of mics
that I found around, since I had some time to prepare the sounds, had some
channels free on the mixer, and I already had stick the sm56 on the congas, and
I have found them to be good sounding and didn’t have any problem with
feedback (strange with condenser, but since they are very small capsule and
cardioid, and were far from the monitoring…). These are the behringer C-2
mic set (70€ for 2 condenser mics with wind filters and a mounting kit).
I think you should give them a try. As far as the dynamic ones, another choice
can be shure pg56, very cheap and sound really similar to the sm56s.
Peace
Luigi
From:
Richard Sales [mailto:richard@glasswing.com]
Sent: sabato 12 maggio 2007 21.00
To:
Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: microphones - headset
mics?
You know, I don't think
I'd buy a mic off Ebay. Mic's are very fragile and are so easily ruined. Well,
not SM 57s. They can double as ball peen hammers when needed. Good workhorse
mic's, though. But I think I'd go to a store that has a ton of mic's and try
them out. There are some very affordable new mic's from China that are pretty
amazing. And if you're moving around a headset might be the ticket. Never used
one myself because of the Buck Rogers effect but they make really great sense.
SOME stores will let you pick a few and take them home. You might have to PAY
for all of them but get a refund on the rejects after you've taken them home
and tried them. I did that with some of my higher ticket mic's and it's a cool
way to do it because in the store it's so hard to tell really.
There's a CD from 3D Audio I think it is where they've carefully recorded
material with most of the different mic's (same placement, instrument, vox etc)
and you can hear for yourself which works best. Haven't heard the CD myself,
but I've heard from golden eared studio folks that it's incredibly useful. And
(I've heard) some of the cheaper mic's stand up VERY WELL to mic's costing
thirty times as much. You can find 3D Audio online I believe. If you can't and
want to, let me know and I'll suss it out.
A great mic pre will help any mic sound great. The Chameleon is really sweet
and not too god awful expensive. Like a Neve. Around $600 USD. I got mine from
Pacific Pro Audio in Seattle, Washington. Sweet EQ too! Talk to Brian Cornfield
if you call or email and tell him I sent ya. He's a good and honest guy. It
makes a WORLD of difference on any mic from 100-10,000 dollars. Really.
I don't know how the Chameleon will hold up if you're taking it to gigs,
though. Ask Brain if you talk to him. It doesn't have tubes which makes it a
little less susceptible to gig carnage.
Happy hunting
richard sales
glassWing farm and studio
vancouver island, b.c.
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On 12-May-07, at 10:09 AM, lifeisgood wrote:
I probably should have
mentioned that I will be looping mostly acoustic instruments, strings, wind,
found objects and percussion will be the loudest thing. If I use a guitar amp
that wont need micing up, unless in-house.
Its quite confusing, some people just say the bog-standard sm57 over
everything, including the beta57.
Wouldnt a condenser mic be better overall? It would need to be good for vocals
as well though. My budget is around £100 for something off ebay.
