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have them moving around without sounding “off-mic.” It works well. Likewise, I wound up using this mic at the Washington Folk Festival for a bluegrass band that all wanted to play around one mic. It worked well, and the presence peak made things a good bit more forward-sounding in the PA. Mike Rivers (longstanding contributor to this magazine) was working another stage at the same festival and threw it up on a kick drum for me; it worked well, but it was brighter and more clicky than the RE20. I tried it myself on a smaller jazz kick and really didn’t like the “Kick” setting; it added a low-end boost that wasn’t in the right place for that particular drum, so I put it back on the “Voice” setting and used a little low-end eq. I also tried it on tabla; it took a bit more equalization but worked out into a nice clean sound with little leakage. After my tests, I came away with the impression that the “kick” setting’s built-in eq curve is tailored for some sort of idealized drum that didn’t match any realworld drums... at least no drum that was anything like the ones I had handy for tests. But the fact that we didn’t find it immediately useful isn’t a reason to avoid this mic. You can turn it off, you don’t have to use it, and if you should happen to need some kind of “instant kick eq” curve, it’s always there to experiment with. I wound up working on Stuart Barkley’s stage at the festival as well, and he put the RE320 on a wide range of stringed instruments from guitars to ouds and mandolins. In every case we could get a good sound without much work. In every case, though, it was very forward. I also used the RE320 for voiceover work; the presence peak makes for a brighter and more fashionable sound than the RE20 does. While it unfortunately doesn’t reduce nasal sounds like the upper midrange peakiness of the Beyer M 500 does, the RE320 still offers a sound that will cut through a vocal bed well, and works on many people. Measurements Measurements all looked exactly the way you’d expect from the listening tests. The measured response was about like that on the datasheet (and yes, that huge presence peak was in evidence). The measured pattern was very good; directionality was actually a little bit better than what the datasheet said it should be. I didn’t verify the low-frequency response changes of the “kick/voice” switch since my chamber is too small for me to make accurate measurements down there. But everything else looked right on the published curves. Interestingly, the RE320 response changes more with load impedance than that of the RE20. Certainly a lot less than the SM57; you won’t need Paul J.
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Contents
Talkback
Fast Forward
Postcards From The World Of Recording
Grace Design m103
Adobe Audition CS5.5
Radial Engineering Workhorse and 500-Series Modules: JDV-Pre, Shuttle, EXTC, and PhazeQ
Blue Reactor Multi-Pattern Condenser Mic
Great River Electronics / Harrison 32EQ 500-Series Equalizer Module
Millennia Media HV-35 500-Series Mic Preamp
Telefunken Elektroakustik AK-47 MkII Tube Condenser Mic
Pulse Techniques EQP-1A3
Audix CX212B Multi-Pattern Condenser Mic
A-Designs HM2 Compressor “The Nail”
It’s Your Music—Know Your Rights. Chapter 19: Album Release Checklist
Electro-Voice RE320 Dynamic Mic
Alesis iO Dock
Putting Together The Pieces
Reviewed & Revisited: Fable Sounds Broadway Big Band Kontakt Edition and Broadway Lites
Readers’ Tapes
Advertiser Index
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Recording - October 2011 - Millennia Media HV-35 500-Series Mic Preamp
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Recording - October 2011 - Telefunken Elektroakustik AK-47 MkII Tube Condenser Mic
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Recording - October 2011 - Pulse Techniques EQP-1A3
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Recording - October 2011 - Audix CX212B Multi-Pattern Condenser Mic
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Recording - October 2011 - A-Designs HM2 Compressor “The Nail”
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Recording - October 2011 - It’s Your Music—Know Your Rights. Chapter 19: Album Release Checklist
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Recording - October 2011 - Electro-Voice RE320 Dynamic Mic
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