Sessions With Slau » Neuman http://sessionswithslau.com A podcast for the recording musician & studio owner Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:31:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Geo Vocal Mic Shootout (repost) http://sessionswithslau.com/geo-vocal-mic-shootout-repost/ http://sessionswithslau.com/geo-vocal-mic-shootout-repost/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:22:06 +0000 Slau http://sessionswithslau.com/?p=78 I’ve used a few different vocal mics on George Hrab over the years. Most often, I’ve turned to the Audio-Technica AT4033/SE. Now that we’re in the middle of recording his sixth album, I figured I’d do a little vocal mic shootout and thought it might be fun to get some opinions of the listeners. Now, of course, in this mp3 of the podcast, the differences between the mics will be less pronounced but, for those who wish to download and import files into their DAW, 24-bit WAV files can be downloaded below. They’re all in sync so one can just line them up and A-B.

In alphabetical order, the mics featured are:

AKG C-1000S, medium diaphragm condenser

Apex 460, large diaphragm tube condenser (modified)

Audio-technica AT4033/SE, large diaphragm condenser

Cascade C-77, ribbon

Heil PR-40, large element moving coil

Mojave Audio MA-200, large diaphragm tube condenser

Neumann TLM-103, large diaphragm condenser

Oktava MK-219, large diaphragm condenser (modified by Oktavamod)

If you’d like to play along at home, the individual WAV files are available on this page:

We’ll tally up the results of listeners’ preferences and announce them on next week’s Geologic Podcast. In the meantime, if you’d like to know the identities of each microphone, I’ll post a comment revealing them in the next few days.

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