3 Aug
2004
3 Aug
'04
7:48 p.m.
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:43:47AM -1000, Alastair Couper wrote:
Yes, I should state the intention. I have a SM58
knockoff (by Fender) that
I use on hand drums. My interest de jeur is to record a female vocalist.
I am an electrical engineer by education, so am amenable to freq charts,
THD, spatial plots and such. But the "warm" thing seems to me empty. Seems
like judicious EQ should get you what you want, given that the transducer
is coming up with a clean reproduction to begin with. But then one gets
into subjectivity and black magic again.
I am looking a Studio Projects B1, for instance.
Get thee to the ProSoundWeb forums and read Harvey Gerst's
many many posts on related topics. Harvey is a great engineer with decades of
experience who runs a "bottom-feeder" studio and has a knack for finding
the stuff worth having at the low end of the price range.
http://recforums.prosoundweb.com/index.php/f/32/0
There's also "the big thread" that in its slightly edited PDF form
is a great read about mics in general... 80 pages on theory, specs,
mic choice, placement, etc. You're bound to learn something.
http://www.kset.org/music/pub/ChatWithHarvey.pdf
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Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com