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Old 7th November 2009   #30
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Originally Posted by chrisdee View Post
Recently a music sales person told me the following about microphones.

You don't put a screaming, saliva spitting rock vocalist in front of a U87. It will pick up all the different sounds coming in out of the singers mouth, not just the actual tones. Neither do you put a very soft singer in front of the SM7B because it takes loud volume to drive it.

If this is true or not I can't say because I have no first hand experience on this yet.

But many people say you have to get the right tool for the right job. It does sound very logical.
Of course this can be true. But there are singers, like ours, who don't sing too softly but who aren't screaming, spitting rock vocalists either.
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