Recording Handbook - Hol.gr
Recording Handbook - Hol.gr
Recording Handbook - Hol.gr
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good mic) and you're halfway there.<br />
Adapted from tstrohma@theodolite.ae.calpoly.edu (Trevor Strohman):<br />
It happens all too often. A <strong>gr</strong>oup is looking for <strong>gr</strong>eat sound on a<br />
limited budget. They go to the music store and see all the glitzy<br />
4-tracks and other recorders. Maybe they have deeper pockets and go<br />
straight for an ADAT. Then they need a microphone. Microphones, not<br />
having the sizzle factor of the recorders, are last on the list, and<br />
there's only $50 left. They leave with a digital recording studio and<br />
a Radio Shack tie-clip microphone.<br />
They get home and plug it in. The features work just like they did in<br />
the store, but the sound isn't quite right. So they go back with more<br />
money. They still skip the mics, and go for compressors, equalizers,<br />
reverbs. They have a little money left over. This time they buy a<br />
Shure SM57.<br />
They go back and try it out. Neat sounds! Not quite like the CDs,<br />
but it sounds pretty good. They want more. They go back to the<br />
store... the cycle continues.<br />
Of course, there will always be this cycle with musicians looking for<br />
the perfect sound, but you can get to the perfect sound a lot faster<br />
if you invest in microphones first. As they say in computing, garbage<br />
in, garbage out. No effects can compensate for a terrible microphone.<br />
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