| Hi,
I've used many microphones and I personally prefer a shotgun (usually Sennheiser MKH 416, but would love to have a Neumann KMR 81 at my stage!). Not only because of the low noise and the polar pattern "benefits", but also for its "disadvantages". I find the artists often make a very good use of its off axis coloured response to create greater perspective and motion for example. Its particular freq response helps to better match production (and ADR as well) when it's needed. So another vote for shotguns here. I've used Neumann TLM 103 as well and as Philip stated before, it's been very good due to its very low noise and don't know how else to describe its "in your face, kind of hard sound". I find curious that I like better Sennheiser 416, and TLM 103 for Foley than Schoeps MK 41, that I love for production sound.
Talking about lower priced mics I would give Rode NTG-1 or NTG-2 a try. Maybe Sennheiser K6 ME66 as well.
cheers,
TK. |