Re: OT top affordable microphones (was headache from cds)

[andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

mark francombe wrote:

> An only just discoverd feature of my Zoom h4 is mike emulation... So... 
> whats up with that? Does it work, is it nonsense, if theres something in 
> it, why dont they just emulate the 10 best mikes, and watch them all go 
> out of business as they flood the market at a tenth of the price...

I think it's nonsense
...and I reckon you do too ;-)

Might give some interesting tone colouration tho'.



> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 1:00 PM, L.Angulo <labaloops@yahoo.com 
>     ive been doing some recording and ive been having some problems
>     recording acoustic guitars i am currently using a Rhode NT5 to do
>     this,one of the problems i am having is that when i record i push
>     the signal as far as possible without causing distortion,i triy to
>     find the sweet spot until it sounds good but when i play it back in
>     Sonar it sounds really weak and i have to compress them and EQ them
>     to come to life.Now as you are saying a good mic should capture the
>     sound without having to do this and i believed the NT5s are decent
>     mics...

I'd guess that you need a better pre-amp.
Makes a lot of difference.


andy butler