Microphone?

RedArmchairStud · 3rd January 2006

Hi Everyone,

If you only had these microphones, which would you use recording vocals?

Shure Sm7
Electro-Voice EV 15/16
Beyer Dynamic M200/M500

Have a great new year!

Stefan

Jamstudio · 3rd January 2006

sm7 and m500 are both good mic's for vocal applications(dunno the others), it al depends on what sound/style you wan't

Remco

JonCraig · 3rd January 2006

i'd use whichever sounded best on the source. and that decision would change with the vocalist, signal chain, song, my mood, etc.

--jon

arpodthegreat · 4th January 2006

i have actually used all of these mics on vocals. the beyer should be great cuz it´s a ribbon but it just didn´t work for the singer i was working with. sm7 is really a great mic and i have heard some awesome things come out of it. very smoothed out but not dull. the re15/16 is my personal fav. can´t get it to sound bad. don´t let the fact that you can get em on ebay for 25 bucks deceive you. maybe it´s just the singers i have worked with but for rock it´s amazing. i think frank sinatra or some old famous singer loved these. i heard an engineer call it the poormans neumann. which is crazy cuz it really sounds nothing like a condenser and which neumann? maybe he just meant that it´s great.

3rd January 2006	#1
RedArmchairStud Gear nut Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 82 Thread Starter	Microphone? Hi Everyone, If you only had these microphones, which would you use recording vocals? Shure Sm7 Electro-Voice EV 15/16 Beyer Dynamic M200/M500 Have a great new year! Stefan

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Jamstudio Gear nut Joined: Jul 2005 Location: Capelle aan den IJssel, Netherlands Posts: 144	sm7 and m500 are both good mic's for vocal applications(dunno the others), it al depends on what sound/style you wan't Remco __________________ Remco van grevenbroek www.jamstudio.nl Yeah i got bad taste

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JonCraig Lives for gear Joined: Apr 2004 Location: Nashville, TN Posts: 1,800	i'd use whichever sounded best on the source. and that decision would change with the vocalist, signal chain, song, my mood, etc. --jon __________________ "My job is to make music sound great and to not whine too much." --George Massenburg Learn PT Techniques from Multi-Platinum Engineers. Click Here.

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arpodthegreat Gear maniac Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 222	i have actually used all of these mics on vocals. the beyer should be great cuz it´s a ribbon but it just didn´t work for the singer i was working with. sm7 is really a great mic and i have heard some awesome things come out of it. very smoothed out but not dull. the re15/16 is my personal fav. can´t get it to sound bad. don´t let the fact that you can get em on ebay for 25 bucks deceive you. maybe it´s just the singers i have worked with but for rock it´s amazing. i think frank sinatra or some old famous singer loved these. i heard an engineer call it the poormans neumann. which is crazy cuz it really sounds nothing like a condenser and which neumann? maybe he just meant that it´s great.