After continuing my reading into the book Recording Secrets for the Home Studio. I decided to have a mic shoot-out. A mic shoot-out is recording on lots of mics, saying the same words and lyrics and gain levels. Hearing what the differences are. Seeing as we are at university and we have a lot of microphones I decided it was interesting to approach this with the same philosophy that I’ve been reading. If music is something more spiritual and I’m anti commodification. What are the qualities I enjoy in a microphone?
So in total, I tried nine microphones.
TLM 103
AKG 414 XLS
AKG D190E
Earth Works m23
AT2020
AT2035
SM58
SM57
Sennheiser 416
Interestingly, the ones I enjoyed was SM57, TLM 103, AKG D190E,
I’m going to listen to the microphones and frequencies response and think about what I want to record with.