18 Mar
2010
18 Mar
'10
10:13 p.m.
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 01:47 +0100, Philipp wrote:
Excerpts from Ken Restivo's message of 2010-03-19
01:24:03 +0100:
The mics in the H2 are pretty darn good. Here's a little trick that
can save you a few bucks on a pop filter... you can make your own pop
filter using an old pair of stockings and a coat hanger. Just make a
small loop with the coat hanger, slip the end of the stockings over the
loop, cut to size, and duct tape the thing to your mic stand. I used
one for a couple of years and it worked fine (I did finally spring for a
store bought one but it doesn't work any better than the than the home
made one - although it looks nicer). Oh, you might want to wash the
stockings first ;-)
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?
I have no experience with either, but ..
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.
I doubt that vocal sound pressure really is an issue, just make sure you
don't get 'wind' noises.
Also, it has
that 188ms delay in it too, and no way to turn off hardware monitoring.
I think I read that it can be used as usb interface directly, maybe it
behaves better then?
How bad is the PG-58 though?
-ken
I'd assume that the PG-58 isn't so different from other Shure vocal
mics, pure guess. Maybe it's better than the Zoom for really close range.
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