[Trevor]

On 4/10/2014 5:25 AM, Mike Rivers wrote:
On 10/3/2014 12:01 PM, Luxey wrote:
Today, on reevaluation, being in casual/ editing mode and after
reading all the posts indicating the difference was rather big, just
as I found them to be on first listen, I could not believe how similar
those same samples were.
I had hard time finding elements that made me write my first post.

Moral of the story, having extreme expectations make the differences
apear greater than they really are.

Amazing, isn't it? I take comments like "sounds really warm and vibey"
and "like a great curtain was lifted from in front of the speakers" with
a grain of salt. I realize that there are some mics that just don't work
on certain things, but most any decent mic is capable of making a
perfectly reasonable recording of anything reasonable, under reasonable
circumstances.

Of course if you take the effort to try several mics, you'll hear
differences, but unless something is really wrong, usually with a little
dab of EQ here or there, any one will work fine.


Not quite true IMO. The biggest difference between mics that cannot
easily be fixed in post is the polar pattern. Except for true omnis, all
patterns vary widely, so if you can't control all reflections and
extraneous sounds, (and you never can outside an anechoic chamber) there
will always be a difference in sound that cannot be made the same with
EQ etc. How much that bothers you personally though is another matter.

Trevor.