Post A Sample Of Your Microphone/Equipment

Andy Quiñones · **Voice Talent** Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 187

Kim--ROFLMAO! Actually I had to move the pop screen back in order to get the ruler in the photo.

Bobby--I dunno it sounds pretty clean to me but the best way to determine ambient noise would be to take an acoustical reading of it. I.e. record the "room acoustic signature" without the vocals.

Sounds like that TLM has a love affair with your voice brother--nice.

Todd Ellis · Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007, 17:10 (GMT) Post subject:

kim, download the high gain applet and you will have MUCH better luck with your snowball.

here's a sample from my "chain": radio shack headset mic into my reliable commodore 64 mainframe and windows recorder ... read 'em & weep baby! i master to 5.25" floppy discs and can also mail a cassette. i now accept paypal and live chickens as payment.

Amy Snively · **Voice Talent** Joined: 04 Jul 2005 Posts: 1028

That's awesome, Todd! Burn that and start sending it around to agents! Baby, you have arrived!

Todd Ellis · Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007, 17:39 (GMT) Post subject:

wOOt!!!! i KNEW IT!

the large Macdonald's cup reverb was killa ... wasn't it!

watch out sid ... i'm coming for ya ... steak and all!

Ed Gambill · **Voice Talent** Joined: 04 Jun 2007 Posts: 585

A few more microphones

6" from Mic
Mic mounted over head cued downward
Edirol UA-25

Shure SM 89, AKG 451EB/C1,AKG 480/CA61,GT AM-52, Beheringer ECM8000

Bobby Knight · **Voice Talent** Joined: 18 Oct 2006 Posts: 67

I liked the AKG 480-ULS combo, as well as the Groovetube..does nicing overhead make THAT much of a difference?..I was told by an engineer that it makes no difference at all..

Ed Gambill · **Voice Talent** Joined: 04 Jun 2007 Posts: 585

Yes the position is vital to tonal quality of what is recoded. Microphone positing is an art and science. Recording engineers, who care about their recording secessions, work many hours trying out different placements for recording a multitude of things including the human voice. In fact some have learned special tricks to help them get better sound from certain instruments and they don’t share these tricks.

Most sound Mixers (location sound recoding engineer on movies) will always try to position the microphone overhead. Think of the body as the resonant thing that it is. Just as a guitars string is plucked and set into vibration, the sweet sound does not come directly over the string. The body of the guitar helps to shape the sound. Almost every instrument, including the vocal chords, have places on the body of the instrument that radiate a preferred sound quality. Another side benefit of over head placement is a less breath noise.

The chest cavity is where the low frequencies will come from and from the head the middle and high frequencies. Try placing the microphone aimed up at the mouth, then inline with the mouth and finally aimed down so it sees the mouth and chest. Listen on good speakers and make your decision about which one you like. It’s what you like that matters and the position of the microphone will help define the sound you like best.

Come to thing of it, if a person called him/her self an engineer and told me microphone position didn’t matter I would question how good an engineer he/she was. My personal recommendation is to find another engineer to get help from. Many of the contributors her have superior credentials in the engineering dept.

Don Capone · **Voice Talent** Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 89

Ed ..Im Liking the AKG 451EB and the GT AM-52...nice Very Happy

Ed Gambill · **Voice Talent** Joined: 04 Jun 2007 Posts: 585

Maybe I aught to reconsider the GT AM52. I think that replacing the transformer with one from, say Cine Mag, might help it. But then Its not broken, why fix it. Very Happy

Maxine Dunn · **Voice Talent** Joined: 25 Apr 2004 Posts: 675

Don Capone · **Voice Talent** Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 89

that tube pre sure warms that mic when you get up close and personal... nice:)

Maxine Dunn · **Voice Talent** Joined: 25 Apr 2004 Posts: 675

Michael Murphy · **Voice Talent** Joined: 02 May 2007 Posts: 113

Definately was a very warm and inviting voice!

Mike

Maxine Dunn · **Voice Talent** Joined: 25 Apr 2004 Posts: 675

Jacob Ekstroem · **Voice Talent** Joined: 23 Jul 2007 Posts: 721

Ed,

Great test! So interesting to hear so many mics compared.
That 451/CK1 combo - wow!!! Noticed the complete lack of noise contra all the others. It may need just a liiiiittle tweaking at the top, but I really, really, really, really, really like it!

Max,

so nice to hear you speak "un-professionally", so to speak. Gotta love that accent.
However, I can see now why you asked for advice on the de-ess'ing issue, your "S"es really cuts through. Hmmm... Lemmethinkaboutit, and I'll be back.

By the way, the reason why I don't post a sample here too, is simply because my Rode NTK is sick... Sad

It does NOT sound the way it should, probably suffering from my bad, bad habit of smoking in my studio. So a sample simply wouldn't be fair to Rode, as it actually was a nice mic once.