18 Mar
2010
18 Mar
'10
10:58 p.m.
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 05:38:38PM -0700, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
On 18 March 2010 at 17:24, Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org> wrote:
Thanks, yeah, I can do a quick compare tomorrow before we go to do the actual recording. I
don't want to waste a lot of everyone's time geeking out on stuff (i.e. plugging
stuff in, unplugging stuff, trying different options), I just need to jump in and do it.
Also, I can't run both at the same time, they'd have to be two different takes.
The Zoom H2 comes with its own windscreen which I guess could do as a pop guard; it's
not that much more or less than what's in a PG58.
After thinking about it a bit more, the big problem with the Zoom is that it's an omni
mic. I'm recording vocals, I don't want the room, just the voice. Even in 90
degree mode, it's still an omni pattern. So, in that case, the 58 might be necessary
the better call.
Thanks again to everyone for the replies.
-ken
So I am recording the band's vocals tomorrow
for this record,
and, due to acute poverty and our practice-room-mates
absconding with all the mics, the only mics we have available
to us now are:
1) Shure PG-58 (with on-off switch! woo-hoo!)
and
2) Zoom H2
Which of these not-very-good choices would you recoomend would
be slightly less crappy for recording vocals?
The Zoom has condenser mics, which to my ears are quite good,
but are designed for ambient recordings and might not handle
sound pressure levels of close-range vocal use. Also, it has
that 188ms delay in it too, and no way to turn off hardware
monitoring. How bad is the PG-58 though?
I haven't heard a PG-58. But, I can say that I pretty much
don't like many of Shure's offerings. I'm more of a fan of AKG
and Audix and Beyer Dynamics. But, that's probably just my own
tastes.
That said, I've used the H2 and found the internal mics to be
pretty good. I'd use it over a pair of SM58 or SM57. Would
you be recording in stereo? Which pair in the H2, the 90deg or
120deg? Would you be recording in omni, i.e. all 4 mics on?
It wouldn't be all that hard, and maybe only 10-20 minutes, for
you to do a compare before the real recording.