Mic Recommendations?

pauliewallie

I am doing a bit of home recording. I have the software, keyboard and interface. I am looking for a good quality, but not extravegently priced, microphone to record vocal and guitar mainly.

I have a SM58 but I hear condensers are better quality for this job.

pauliewallie

sorry, realised i may have posted this on the wrong board.

although the question is not related to dance music production is that the main music production board for questions such as mine?

mods, can you move for me if necessary?
cheers

off.the.walls

pauliewallie wrote: »

sorry, realised i may have posted this on the wrong board.

although the question is not related to dance music production is that the main music production board for questions such as mine?

mods, can you move for me if necessary?
cheers

for guitar akg c1000 bout 100 euro on thomann vocals trust me and go for a bit of a expensive mic id reccomend a akg c3000 or a c414 personally i used the c2000 and it does the trick.

pauliewallie

thanks for the feedback man. for budgetary reasons I was hoping to find a good quality mic that would do for both guitar and vocals. would any of them mics do the job?

fitz

Wouldn't recommend any of the AKG c series, except the 414/214.
The cX000's aren't up to much in my experience.

More details: what interface are you using, is it acoustic or electric you want to record, what style of music?

iquinn

the only thing I'd use a c1000 for would be to stir a large cup of coffee.
imho

DamagedTrax

iquinn wrote: »

the only thing I'd use a c1000 for would be to stir a large cup of coffee.
imho

ive only EVER found 2 uses for a c1000.

1. a mono room pointed directly between top of the kick and toms and crushed to hell by EL fatso.

2. an ambient gtr mic for old style tremelo ala pulp fiction. sat about 4 feet back from the cab and off axis.

other than that it would make a good coffee stirrer.. or sex toy!

SonasRec

I use a C1000 on every session................as a talkback mic.

As for a good mic, there's several cheap Chinese mics available that won't break the bank. They also won't sound as good as some of the studio standard mics but are great value. One I've had good experience with is the 'studio projects C1'.

madtheory

The cheaper Audio Technica large diaphragm mics are great value.

pauliewallie

fitz wrote: »

Wouldn't recommend any of the AKG c series, except the 414/214.
The cX000's aren't up to much in my experience.

More details: what interface are you using, is it acoustic or electric you want to record, what style of music?

Thanks.

I am using an MBox 2 interface and I will be recording mainly vocals and acoustic guitars maybe mandolin too.

fitz

Budget?

madtheory

These little Beyerdynamics are fab on mando, guitar and banjo. Get a pair for XY stereo:
http://www.thomann.de/ie/beyerdynamic_mce530_stereoset.htm

And here's the Audio Technica:
http://www.thomann.de/ie/audio_technica_at2020.htm
Great for vocals and very good on concertina and accordion also.

pauliewallie

about 200 would be the budget - thats why I'm thinking of one decent mic rather than two lesser mics

DamagedTrax

SE2200-A?

fitz

Or their new one, bundled with a pop shield, cable and reflection filter for about €170?

http://www.dv247.com/microphones/se-electronics-x1-project-rf-and-free-studio-pop-shield--70055

Good write up in SOS: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb10/articles/x1bundle.htm

pauliewallie

fitz wrote: »

Or their new one, bundled with a pop shield, cable and reflection filter for about €170?

http://www.dv247.com/microphones/se-electronics-x1-project-rf-and-free-studio-pop-shield--70055

Good write up in SOS: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb10/articles/x1bundle.htm

cheers fitz. it looks like a good one in terms of vocals. be good for guitar too you think? I'm tempted and the price is right

fitz

Can't really say without hearing it...if you can find somewhere to demo it, that'd be the ideal.

Now, bear in mind, at this price-range, nothing is going to be stellar, but as a first condensor on the budget you have, and based on the SOS review, I'd imagine it will do the job.

thered

you cant beat the sm57 for guitar but maybe a Audio Technica large diaphragm mic
they are not bad value