Hi, Let me discribe what I am trying to record and then you will
understand what I am trying to do and make more suggestions. I like all
of the suggestions and agree that now that I am wanting to do this audio
production as a job that I need to get better microphones and adapt my
room for recording. Basically I have my mac book pro as well as my digi
003 on the same desk with my CD player on the same table. Everything is
working properly but the reason I can't push play on the CD player and
record on the digi 003 at the same time then go into a different room to
record is that I am going to be the one getting recorded along with some
of my friends and want to have headphones for all of us so that sound
from either the music or each other does not go threw or as little as
possible goes on to each track. I am fine about getting better quality
headphones for them as well as extention cables for spreading out people
in the room. Should I have all of my equipment on a pad or something
other then a wooden shelf? Usually we like to hold our microphones as
we find that microphone stands can get pushed over and I like to keep
things stored as close as possible to the digi 003 when not in use. I
have done some sample recordings turning the microphone volumes way down
but it gets so low that the singing os us is pritty much gone as I still
want to be able to hear the music as well as the voices or if we are
recording a drama recording with background music and sound effects we
want to make sure that the music or sound effects don't remove our
voices from the production. Based on this discription and the fact that
I am the one who will probably buy most if not all of the equipment or
wants to learn this stuff and is going to school to learn all of these
great things what suggestions can you suggest? Nick Gawronski
On 5/9/2012 7:21 AM, Nickus de Vos wrote:
Hi Kevin and others. The Rode NT1 is a awesome mic and I will recommend
it any day as a studio condenser for doing vocals or acoustic
instruments like guitars, violens or piano. However kevin, the NT2 is
the one with the pad and patern switching and my opinion if you can
afford the $100 or so more I'd rather go for the NT2 as it esentially
sounds the same as the NT1 but with the aditional pick up paterns and pad.
As for your room, it's highly recommended to get some room treetment
especially if you're going to do vocals with condenser mics because they
are very sensitive and the quietest condenser mic in the world won't
help anything if you have a loud noisy room. As said you can do a lot of
stuff DIY style without spending a lot of money on a pro person or
company to do it for you but if you have the budget it is obviously
better to get in the pros. There's a lot of stuff on the net about DIY
acoustics and you can get verry far by doing some reading and by
experementing a little with different things. You can make a lot of
improvements by using blankets, carpet, cardboard boxes, spunge/phome
etc. used in the rite ways and placed rite.
For serious studio vocals I'd always recommend condenser mics like the
Rode NT1 and NT2 mentioned above and as also mentioned the NT2 can
switch to omni directional to pick up people singing in a group or a
string section etc. If you really want to use dynamic mics you can get
verry far with something like the SM58, a lot of studio engineers would
consider dynamic mics for vocal recording a big no, no but it can be
done, for example U2's Bonno only records vocals with his SM58.
Mics really depends a lot on your budget and needs, I've mentioned the
Rode mics, AKG has awesome vocal mics at the budget end starting at the
c1000 going up to the c414 etc and you can also look at shure, a lot of
people only see shure mics as live mics but they have awesome studio
mics in fact the SM in SM58 actually stands for studio microphone.
Dynamic as said look at the SM58 and condenser wise the beta87 is
awesome for recording and also the KSM109.
As you probably know by now the ideal situation would be to keep your
equipment like computer and hard drive in one room and record in another
but if not possible you can do it in one room, as mentioned by use of
longer cables distance the mic and your computer as far away from each
other as possible. In sted of covering your computer with something like
a blanket a good idea is just to put a barryer between thee computer and
the mic, you can do this with a acoustic pannel or something as simple
as a blanket hanged between 2 mic stands can also do the trick.
On Monday, May 7, 2012 11:39:11 PM UTC+2, Nick Gawronski wrote:
Hi, I am trying to find some good quality microphones as the ones
that I
have when connected to my digi 003 I hear lots of background humming
from my external drive and sounds like cars driving by. I am mainly for
starting going to be recordings of friends of mine and want both
microphones that can capture only what is directly in front of them and
some microphones to capture all of the room like for a small group
performance where I want all of the voices but not lots of background
noise going threw the microphones. My current microphones don't require
any phantom power in order to work and when I have tried putting them
around the room the people have to talk rather loud in order to be
heard
or it sounds like they are far away. What types of microphones work
well with the digi 003 for both of these setups I don't mind getting
better quality microphones as some of these current ones go back years?
Nick Gawronski
