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84K · 31st January 2005, 10:40 PM

Jamz (a fellow Gear Slut) introduced me to the SM-7 and that works great..... it can take it.... just looking for all my options.

As far as someone asked earlier... I have many tube mics, old neumanns, telefunkens, AKG, etc. This singer is just extremely loud when he screams. Some mics, like the U67, can handle it much better than, say, an E Lam 251, but they all still distort at some point. Proximity aside, you can only back the vocalist up so much before you have to over-compress to get that "in your face" sound. That is my objection with the tube mics in this application. I like the SM-7(THANKS JAMZ), because I don't have to worry about it distorting. Any other mic suggestions? Thanks!!

31st January 2005, 10:40 PM	#7
84K Lives for gear Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: right coast Posts: 3,808	Jamz (a fellow Gear Slut) introduced me to the SM-7 and that works great..... it can take it.... just looking for all my options. As far as someone asked earlier... I have many tube mics, old neumanns, telefunkens, AKG, etc. This singer is just extremely loud when he screams. Some mics, like the U67, can handle it much better than, say, an E Lam 251, but they all still distort at some point. Proximity aside, you can only back the vocalist up so much before you have to over-compress to get that "in your face" sound. That is my objection with the tube mics in this application. I like the SM-7(THANKS JAMZ), because I don't have to worry about it distorting. Any other mic suggestions? Thanks!!