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Gear / Technical Help => Microphones & Setup => Topic started by: atracksler on February 19, 2006, 08:18:56 AM
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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
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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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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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lsd2 is a great reccomendation.
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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.
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KEL HM-1
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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
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so, am i better off with 2 seperate mics? or one stereo mic?
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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.
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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