Need some advice on building a good Mic locker

phildog33 · 17th January 2011

hey guys,

I need some advice on building a good cabinet of mics

I dont record drums, but record mostly vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass and ambient room sounds

We have a high end Metric Halo converter and those Mic preamps, which are amazing... and usually doing 16 inputs this way.. mix of direct ins and vocal mics and mic'd cabinets

Can you give me some recommendations on good mics for this?

Ive owned high end Neumann condensors and stereo pair mics, and Royer Ribbons etc... but sold them all.. and really happy with just the SM7 on vocals.. we are doing mostly indie.

The other mics we have are just Sm57s 58s .... What would some good wide array mics for recording in a project studio with good mic pres

Thanks again
Looking to get enough vocal mics to record 7-8 people at once too... But the 58s have always sounded boring and slightly muffled to me

p

Adman130 · 17th January 2011

I'm sorry to hear that you sold all those great mics. Most people would recommend something similar to what you had.

For recording 7-8 vocals at once, are you going for sterile, dry vocals? I don't really know what your budget is, but if you're going to buy 7-8 vocal mikes, i've heard good things about the Heil dynamics. I have a 57A Beta, and it surprises me how well it can handle a male vocal. It doesn't sound nearly as dead as the 58 does. I'll bet the 58 Beta would be even better.

If you're recording say, a group singing, and you want it all to sound like they actually sang together, i'd get some multipattern ldc's (cardi, Fig8, omni, wide cardioid if you wanna treat yourself). Again, i don't know your budget, so I can't really identify what would be right for you.

You also mentioned you record ambient room sounds. Again, multipattern ldc's would be the way to go. Maybe for room sounds, get some mikes with a flatter frequency response. You can get away with having sibilant mikes for vocals and a handful of other things. Unless you dig sibilance/polished clarity in your mixes, again you haven't specified.

Hope that all helps! Good luck pardner

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phildog33 · 25th January 2011

For having a bunch of dynamic hand held vocal mics... which models are better than the SM58
something with a lot more clarity.. not so much a Live throw it around industrial mic, like the SM58... but something clearer

P

17th January 2011	#1
phildog33 Gear maniac Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 171 Thread Starter	Need some advice on building a good Mic locker hey guys, I need some advice on building a good cabinet of mics I dont record drums, but record mostly vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass and ambient room sounds We have a high end Metric Halo converter and those Mic preamps, which are amazing... and usually doing 16 inputs this way.. mix of direct ins and vocal mics and mic'd cabinets Can you give me some recommendations on good mics for this? Ive owned high end Neumann condensors and stereo pair mics, and Royer Ribbons etc... but sold them all.. and really happy with just the SM7 on vocals.. we are doing mostly indie. The other mics we have are just Sm57s 58s .... What would some good wide array mics for recording in a project studio with good mic pres Thanks again Looking to get enough vocal mics to record 7-8 people at once too... But the 58s have always sounded boring and slightly muffled to me p

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17th January 2011	#2
Adman130 Gear Head Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 49	I'm sorry to hear that you sold all those great mics. Most people would recommend something similar to what you had. For recording 7-8 vocals at once, are you going for sterile, dry vocals? I don't really know what your budget is, but if you're going to buy 7-8 vocal mikes, i've heard good things about the Heil dynamics. I have a 57A Beta, and it surprises me how well it can handle a male vocal. It doesn't sound nearly as dead as the 58 does. I'll bet the 58 Beta would be even better. If you're recording say, a group singing, and you want it all to sound like they actually sang together, i'd get some multipattern ldc's (cardi, Fig8, omni, wide cardioid if you wanna treat yourself). Again, i don't know your budget, so I can't really identify what would be right for you. You also mentioned you record ambient room sounds. Again, multipattern ldc's would be the way to go. Maybe for room sounds, get some mikes with a flatter frequency response. You can get away with having sibilant mikes for vocals and a handful of other things. Unless you dig sibilance/polished clarity in your mixes, again you haven't specified. Hope that all helps! Good luck pardner .

25th January 2011	#3
phildog33 Gear maniac Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 171 Thread Starter	For having a bunch of dynamic hand held vocal mics... which models are better than the SM58 something with a lot more clarity.. not so much a Live throw it around industrial mic, like the SM58... but something clearer P