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RECORDING
VOCALS:
Right...From
theStart
different singers, or if it's a well-established
singer, I'll ask the singer if they have a
mic they prefer. The Neumann U87 is
obviously a gold standard and so is the
U47, but I'm a fan of trying new things.
A couple of years ago I discovered the
Latvian brand JZ Microphones and their
high-end condenser Black Hole BH-1S; it
quickly became my favorite vocal microphone and I now use it on most of my vocal
recordings. Figure 1 shows the Black Hole
with two JZ pop filters.
I recently got to record U2 and I used
that mic (along with a Neumann U47)
on Bono's voice. I wanted to have options for sound and signal level because
it was a very dynamic song, so I chose
to record two mics. Speaking of preparation, before working with Bono I had
heard a rumor that he records all his
vocals through a Shure SM58 while sitting in the control room, so I also had a
second vocal station ready for him in the
control room with an SM58 ready to go.
We ended up not using that, but better
safe than sorry!
Another new mic I have recently discovered is the Swedish Ehrlund EHR-M
(Figure 2). This particular microphone
has a triangular diaphragm, which
results in an immediate response without some of the artifacts that come with
the resonant frequencies lingering after
the initial impulse response. I have now
been using this microphone on vocals
and have loved its sounds as well.
Sometimes you have a singer that
is very sibilant or makes a lot of lip
smacking and lisping noises. In those
cases a ribbon microphone might be
just the thing. If you are going for that
real old school vintage vibe on a song,
that is also another good candidate for
a ribbon. I have two favorite ribbon
microphones that I use. One is the RCA
KU3A, which I am lucky to have at the
studio where I work, but which is also
available from AEA in a reissued version
called the KU4. The other is the HUM
Audio Devices RS-2, shown in Figure
3. HUM Audio (yeah, terrible name
for an audio company!) is a great new
company based in Poland that was
established by passionate sound engineers who wanted to make an amazing
ribbon microphone, and let me tell you,
amazing it is! Smooth, solid, powerful
and heavy! It is a stereo mic, so for vocals
I just use one of the two ribbons.
Lastly because all of these microphones I mentioned (except for the
SM57 and SM58) are pretty pricey, I
want to suggest a very good alternative
at a lower price point, and that is the
RØDE NT2000, shown in Figure 4.
You can get this very good-sounding
condenser with variable polar pattern,
variable highpass filter, and variable
pad for around $500-600, so you can
really have a lot of flexibility for not a lot
http://radialeng.com
http://www.radialeng.com/keylargo
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