[Fwd: Re: OT: Recommendations for Microphone and Archtop or Acoustic Guitar]

[Rainer Straschill <moinsound@googlemail.com>]

Kris Hartung schrieb:

> Document below updated with frequence response charts for each model.
Just mentioning that for completeness, but the frequency response chart 
alone is not a good measurement of how a microphone sounds. A lot of the 
characteristics of several great mics cannot even be guessed by looking 
at the frequency response. And with that comes the fact that only a few 
of the (expensive) manufacturers actually name the test conditions used 
for plotting those charts...

To add some of my .02 to this discussion:

1. +1 for the AT4050 as a great all-around microphone.
2. Typically, a multi-pattern microphone is a little bit of a cheat: the 
"omni" is not a true omni but rather a combination of two cardioids. So 
you still have proximity effect. Buggers. (I like omni recordings very 
much).
3. I both have Rode NT-1A (a pair) and the older NT-1, the latter one is 
what I use a lot for hihat and similar "noise sources", because to me it 
feels warmer.
4. Why not consider something which is not a condenser microphone, 
perhaps in addition to a (small diaphragm) condenser? Like a Coles 
ribbon, or a Beyer M201 moving coil?

         Rainer

-- 
http://moinlabs.de
Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/moinlabs




-- 
http://moinlabs.de
Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/moinlabs