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

Am Mittwoch, 11. April 2007 schrieb Loki Davison: Since some time I do have a strong urge not to buy behringer. They make same good stuff. And they are certainly worth the price. But nothing more... And while the headphone-amp of behringer is kind of a standard, the mics are most probably some cheap imitations (like there mixers). My band-leader owns a Tube-Mic (a Fame from musicstore) which was cheap (ie. in the price-range you mentioned) but sounds warmer than my C4s and so we use it for vocals and guitar. Both for acoustic guitar and for electric-guitar, altough the guitarist would be satisfied to directly plug in I think going through his (not so high-quality) amp and the tube-mic adds some great value to the signal. I wouldn't go for cheap condensors (<100€ per part). If you want to use your mic(s) on stage too, I would go for Shure SM58 or even better Shure Beta58 (or 57 for instruments-only). The later one is also usable in studio for recording percussions. For live the SM57 can be substituted by thomann the.mic mb75 if you are on a budget... Have a nice day, Arnold -- visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/ --- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your administrator to do so...