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Vickxxx	Date: March 6, 2004 @ 2:52 AM What mics & mic set ups have ya'll used to get your samples and sounds and vox on your recordings????? i.e. I used a very bad set of walkman headphones as a mic for vox with very cool results
sinai	Date: March 6, 2004 @ 6:01 AM shit, i use my 12$ computer mic, for my samples i juss download .wav or .mp3 files and split/alter accordingly
pog	Date: March 6, 2004 @ 10:19 AM I'm sorry guys, but there's no substitute for quality... Thats because all the substitutes sold out about a month ago
smooka	Date: March 6, 2004 @ 2:03 PM neumann for guitars and vocals
nvoise	Date: March 6, 2004 @ 2:27 PM shure sm57 for everything. or if i'm using the laptop i have to make do with something that has an 'r' on it.
milladrive	Date: March 6, 2004 @ 3:52 PM Ahh, if only everyone could afford a Neumann. ...I must agree, Shure SM57 [or 58].
Vickxxx	Date: March 6, 2004 @ 4:11 PM Has anybody used any of the mic emulating software that's out there with any success(or not)?????
smooka	Date: March 6, 2004 @ 7:44 PM sure SM57/58 are very good staple mic's. Blueberry makes a descent line also. not to much money.
nvoise	Date: March 6, 2004 @ 11:26 PM oops, it's actually a 58. i don't know anything!
nvoise	Date: March 6, 2004 @ 11:28 PM mic emulating software? is it like a bunch of eq presets?
Vickxxx	Date: March 6, 2004 @ 11:36 PM naw....software that'll emulate neumans and other hi end mics..just remember reading an article on it in electronic musicians a few months back...didnt think I would need something like that but now my curiosity is back in play.....
MarcSalmon	Date: March 7, 2004 @ 6:21 AM i use a Superlux TOP 258 mic (dynamic) and its great for general recording. was quite cheap too. bout £60-70 ?
pog	Date: March 7, 2004 @ 7:00 AM Have you ever seen those modelling amps for guitarists that can emulate all the well known amps... yeah sure, they can color the sound similarly, but you usually need 2 HUGE amps to make it sound even close, and the 2 huge amps on their own would produce a nicer sound, as would the amp you're trying to emulate. I dare say the mic emulating software would be fairly similar. What they've probably done is examined the waveform of a Neumann mic and made it frag the existing wavefile to produce a similar type of wave... the problem is, it may be able to make certain frequencies closer to these other mics, but it would be incredibly lossy in doing so. You're far better off tweeking the sound with eq's and compressors to make it sound however you want. oh, and I miss my audiotelex mic (it's like a 57 but a tad warmer) it lasted me years and years, but alas the mic has finally died
Vickxxx	Date: March 8, 2004 @ 2:52 AM nice to know 57 and 58's are still the mainstay....damn thing s are almost industructable... yea pog, I've had good results when running guitar modelling thru my Marshall...it realy does push air like it's supposed to........thanx for your input on that...it makes sense that's how mic emulating software would work................Thanx to all for your feedback..........
Sinicide	Date: March 18, 2004 @ 7:00 PM My Shure SM58 has not let me down. I know my "other half" Dizeazed uses the same thing.

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