[LAU] best cheap mic(s) for acoustic / vocal recording?

[Arnold Krille]

Am Donnerstag, 12. April 2007 schrieb Fons Adriaensen:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:59:26PM +0200, Robin Gareus wrote:
> > Paul Winkler wrote:
> > > I'm not a fan of the C1000. Here's an interesting post about why it
> > > sometimes works fine and sometimes is awful:
> > > http://groups.google.com/group/rec.audio.pro/browse_thread/thread/eab8c
> > >6400a4f4fa0/369fcee1b26201ba?lnk=st&q=&rnum=1&hl=en#369fcee1b26201ba
> I've been reading the thread referred to above, and if you ask me
> it's just load of nonsense presented as informed opinion. This is
> quite common in audio reviews these days.
> The same reasoning can be used for any microphone. Sometimes it will
> have exactly the frequency response you require and sometimes not.
> That's about all there is to it.

I did only a quick scan of some of the comments but I thought exactly the 
same: Every mic will sound good in one position and bad in another. It all 
depends on placing the mics (relative to the instruments).
You can love or hate mics for their quality or their sound buts that is 
something different and in case of the sound something very personal.

> Indeed the C1000 has some boost at the top end. So what ? In many
> cases that is what you need, and if you don't you can just use some
> gentle EQ to remove it. Or are we still living in the 1950's ??

Having more sound at the top-end to EQ away is also good to reduce noise...

Have a nice day,

Arnold
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