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5th January 2006
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| Gear addict  Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: ayr, north queensland, australia
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Thread Starter | PLEASE HELP choosing a mic hi all i need to choose a mic to record vocals and once again i can't try the mic first i have to do my best guess so here it goes. my singer is very similiar to brandon boyd from incubus and these are the choice of mics that i can get so please any suggestions will be good neumann km 56 neumann u87 neumann u89 akg c414 neumann u 67 neumann u47 fet calrec soundfield what is the best do you all think cheers |
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5th January 2006
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| Gear addict Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: ayr, north queensland, australia
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Thread Starter | please anyone |
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5th January 2006
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: GEARmany
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| 1: U47 for the nice mids and the balls you might want for rock vocals 2: U67 if your singer could need a deesser (this mic realy shines on some singers, if it doesn't... it doesn't) 3: U87 will give you a workable track I wouldn't go for the C414 (there are are a lot of version btw), unless it is a old silver body one (C414eb and earlier) whit the original CK12 (brass ring). I can't say much about the Soundfield. The KM56 is a very good SDC but I think I would rather put it on ac.git or drum OHs... But than again there are several US hit records done with SDC Neumanns...  U89 is not my thing...
__________________ "Any recording engineer who uses a tube U47 is obviously not a professional" Stephan Temmer 1979 |
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6th January 2006
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| Gear addict Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: ayr, north queensland, australia
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Thread Starter | anyone else please the deadline is approaching cheers |
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6th January 2006
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Richmond Hill, Ontario (Canada)
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| Can't remember exactly where I read it but Brandon uses a Neumann KMS 105 and sings in the control room using the monitors instead of headphones. Just though I would point that out, don't know if that helps, cheers!
__________________ "In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey" - Beck, Loser "I do use compressors/limiters but not for controlling dynamics, I use EQ for that!" Jp22 (damn I miss him) "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." -- Will Durant, historian (1885-1981) "I try to get a boom out of the bass drum, in one of my albums, my CD, boom, I try to get that big boom, I could not get a big boom, I paid bucks, and could not get the boom" - Recording Expert, Tad Donley |
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6th January 2006
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| Gear addict Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: ayr, north queensland, australia
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Thread Starter | hi thanks to those who responded due to the limited amount of mics available i think it will have to be the u47 cheers and i will do a post detailing the struggle that is recording our album cheers |
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6th January 2006
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| Gear maniac  Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Austin
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