[Don Pearce[_3_]]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:11:02 -0400, Ty Ford
wrote:

I had a guy in this weekend who wanted to do a vocal demo so he could get
some gigs singing with bands.

He brought MP3 backing tracks that were medium edgy.

He had a couple of songs with octave jumps (B. W. Stevenson's "My Maria") and
was making the jump, but not keeping pitch when he was up there.

He mentioned something about not being able to hear right in the cans. I was
listening to the same line he was and everything sounded fine.

He said what he was hearing wasn't what he was used to with bands and monitor
wedges. That it was like singing through cotton.

That was a clue for me. I swapped out the Neumann D-01 (which sounded great
to me) for a 421 Sennheiser. He liked that better. I went another step and
tried a RE27ND. That worked even better for him.

My take away was that his ear had grown so accustomed to "poke you in the
ear" SM58 mics and monitors that he couldn't deal with a flatter, less
distorted studio mic.

Comments?

Regards,

Ty Ford


Interesting thoughts. How about still using the nice flat mic for
accurate recording, but give him the RE27ND sound in his phones with
some peaky eq on the monitor signal only.

How did he feel about the recorded result from these three mics when
you played back later? Did he still prefer the 27?

d