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Originally Posted by dhiltonlittle  . having not heard your tracks, imo the mic didn't ruin your vocal.
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well, one of these days, i'll post the 103 vocals here, and you'll see clearly that the mic sucked.
this was a session with a SUPERB acapella girl trio in vegas called "fugue" -
i was finishing up a record in london at the time, and flew directly to vegas to record the girls.
because we were on a tight schedule, the girls bought a 103 on the advice of their live sound guy at the time - and i was curious to check it out, anyhow. the sessions were all o/ds -
(we weren't tracking the girls live together).
i had recorded the girls back in nyc previously, and was very familiar with all their voices.
if i post a/bs of all the sessions i did with them - and there were many -
you could blindly pick out the crappy 103 vegas sessions - trust me -
the difference was night and day. nothing else was different from my standard setup with them
(or most other artists i was working with at the time).
why do you doubt my findings - have you tested this mic on all input sources, pres,
and genres of music, and swear up and down by it, or something?
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Originally Posted by dhiltonlittle .
the fact that you chose to use the mic on a source it didn't work with ruined the vocal. was that the only mic you had at the time? .... |
unfortunately, and since my monitoring was not ideal, i just trusted that the mic would do
it's job - that was MY MISTAKE. because it didn't. i was going on the same presumption
you're apparently going on - it's a neumann ldc, it should do the trick, right? i should at LEAST
be able to get something decent - worst case scenario, i'll just have to edit, and fix things in the mix with dynamics and eq, etc....
NOT...i just got mud, and poor dynamics.
anyway, you don't have to believe me - after all, it's not THAT important.
after all, everyone should just use their OWN ears, and figure out what works best for them.
all i know is - i won't be racing out to get a tlm-103 for lead vocals anytime soon.
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