[Steve King]

"mcnews" wrote in message
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hank alrich wrote:
mcnews wrote:

i'd like a pros opinion with much experience with many mics to off er
their opinion on the best all purpose mic in the $400-900 range. i
will be using it mostly for vocals, acoustic guitar and upright bass.
my preamps are humble and will remain so for a while. please try to
stay on topic with your reply and please do not answer my question with
more questions.

I see, you're not a pro, but you want to ask some pros a question and
tell them how to answer it...

i'm not a pro engineer, but i have been a pro musician and i have been
hanging around this group enough to watch threads go into crap land in
terms of useful info verses i know more than you know info.
if my questions looks too dumb to you to grant a simple answer then let
it pass.


i am not a pro and have no aspirations to become one.
just want to make decent recordings.
how about the ev re-20 for example?

Won't work so well with a ****ty preamp. Perahps you could \have told
us what preamp you have. In most cases getting a decent preamp before
one starts buying more mics makes sense, just so you can find out what
your mics sound like into something better than what you have.

An RNP from FMR Audio doesn't cost much more than an RE20. An RE20 isn't
so much fun into a Mackie or Behringer kinda preamp. An SM57 into the
RNP is better, etc.


i use the ****ty ART DSP, TSP, Tubepac and the Behringer T1953.
budget will not permit an upgrade at this juncture.
i have SM57s SM58s, a couple of Behringer condensors, and an AKG C3000.
i am looking for a decent mic for vox.
how complicated and ambiguous is that............?

Less ambiguous than, "i will be using it mostly for vocals, acoustic guitar
and upright bass." I'm voting for the AT2020. Love the RE20, but like a
mic that I like even more for voice, the Shure SM7, it requires about 10 db
more gain that your typical condenser mic. Many pre-amps cannot deliver
that extra gain without adding an unacceptable amount of noise. Can yours?
I don't know cuz I haven't used them. But, I do know that running an RE20
or a Shure SM7 through a Mackie board recording a softer voice (another
thing we don't know about you that might affect the recommendation) takes
the Mackie about to the limit. AT2020, therefore, is the safest bet IMO.

Steve King