| How Many of You.... [message #77842] |
Wed, 03 January 2007 22:21  |
Neil
Messages: 1645
Registered: April 2006
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...have ever bought a microphone because:
a.) You heard that's what quite a few famous singers use and
you like the way they sound through it?
b.) You heard that's what certain well-known producers or
engineers prefer for "x-type" of guitar sound (or kick sound,
or - you get the point) and you're going for that sound?
c.) Someone recommended it personally to you?
d.) It's the hot new mic or the newly-hot vintage mic?
e.) Any combination of any of the above?
PART TWO: Now if that mic happened to be a vocal mic, did you
personally...
....a/b it against another mic with Gladys Knight, Christina
Aguilera, Vince Gill, and Luciano Pavarrotti (or whomever you
heard that you liked on it) each taking turns on both mics?
If that mic happened to be a mic that you were going to use
primarily on guitar cabs, did you a/b it against another mic
using the same signal chains on all the records/CD's that you've
heard it used on that you liked the guitar sound of, and having
the same players as on the CD's do the playing while you a/b'd
the mics?
If that mic happened to be a kick drum mic, did you do the same
thing as above, using the same kick drums used on the
recordings you liked the sound of, and running through the
exact same console, etc....?
....and finally, if you did all of the above, did you then
listen to a mix of an entire song around these mic tracks,
using the same mix guy, the same studio, exact same console,
and have it mastered by the same mastering engineer using the
exact same settings as he used on the CD, then have the CD
replicated in the same facility, not burned off on a CD-R, and
THEN after all that decided that you liked mic "A" better than
mic "B"?
If you haven't (done all of Part Two), then quit giving me shit
about my comparison files & tests, because they are a LOT
closer to every single element of Part Two above than the
criteria you use to make anywhere from 95% to 100% of your
purchases. Got some perspective now?
And you've gotten it for free. You're very fucking welcome.
And that is the last thing I am ever going to say about this topic.
Neil
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