Topic: looking for recomendation for mic for personal bluegrass recordings

[atracksler]

looking for a simple one mic field recording solution. the vlue balls look nice. anyone have any experience with them? I will be recording myself in small (5-25) acoustic bluegrass groups.

Any other suggestions?

I will be recording onto a PMD 670.

Thanks in advance

[atracksler]

I have, but I know more about quantum physics than I do about mics. 

I'm new to this and am not interested in stealth recording. I'm looking for an inexpensive (since I just bought this recorder..) mic to use.

Any recomendations are really appreciated.

I liked the blue ball, sice I didnt need a stand for it, I could just roll it out into the middle, so to speak and record away...

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[Brian]

I liked the blue ball, sice I didnt need a stand for it, I could just roll it out into the middle, so to speak and record away...

you don't want to do that.

for bigger ensembles like that a pair of microphonoes or a fixed stereo microphone would be best.   sony and audio technica make some ok stereo microphones that would probably suit your needs

[heath]

i've got a blue ball, and i can tell you this.  don't bother with it for critical recording.  Sounds great close-mic'd on a guitar cab and other assorted instruments, but i wouldn't use it from a distance.

[Sanjay]

Are you trying to just record yourself, or the entire group with you as a focus, or the entire group as a whole.

Assuming the second two I would go with the Studio Projects LSD2.  I have used it in a bluegrass "jam" several times where we are all in a circle around the mic.  Once a semicircle as well.  SO many options with that.

If you are just going for yourself, depending on the instrument you play i'd recommend a combination of 1 or two small condensor microphones.  Aiming one at the soundhole assuming guitar or mandolin, perhaps one at the fingerboard.  Mix in post to get a nice mono or leave as a stereo.   A Large diaphram microphone like the studio projects c1 would also do nicely i'd think.

[Craig T]

Studio Projects LSD2 (and not because I've got one in the Yard Sale    ).  If interested, PM me - I've actually recorded some bluegrass with it, both with the mic "on stage" with the performers and out in the crowd.

[heath]

lsd2 is a great reccomendation.

[atracksler]

That LSD2 is really sweet, I just blew tha bank buying the PMD670. So I am looking for something to get that will be a good mic that I can upgrade from in a while. I Know that like tatoos, cheap ones arent good, and good ones arent cheap.... but rightr now I need a cheap one (@$100 or so..)

I am recording myself and a small group mostly.

I am pretty new to this, and know next to nothing, so... thanks for any advice yu may have.

[TNJazz]

KEL HM-1

or

AT 2020

Both are a hundred bucks.  I'd go with the KEL personally.  They sound surprisingly good.  And I'd stretch the budget and get 2 so you can record in stereo

[atracksler]

so, am i better off with 2 seperate mics? or one stereo mic?

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[shruggy1987]

whether it is two separate mics or one stereo mic it doesn't matter, but you are going to want a stereo image either way. 

[CHURCH-AUDIO]

www.church-audio.ca is makes great mics
wait I might be biased.

I am biased but we do make a good microphones for recording live sound.

Chris Church

looking for a simple one mic field recording solution. the vlue balls look nice. anyone have any experience with them? I will be recording myself in small (5-25) acoustic bluegrass groups.

Any other suggestions?

I will be recording onto a PMD 670.

Thanks in advance