Recording Handbook - Hol.gr

When you're at the store looking at boxes, think about it. Do you
really need to spring an extra $300 for a half-octave equalizer, or
could you spend the same $300 on a very good home mic and not need the
EQ at all? This works for speakers too. My church runs the most
horrible sounding monitor speakers (12" woofers in little boxes) and
uses a very expensive equalizer to try to clean up the sound. The
sound that comes out still sounds terrible (not as bad, though), but
if they'd just taken the money and invested in new speakers, they
could have much better sound.
Of course, you need to do what's right for you, but I would say to at
the very least spend 50% of what you do on the 4-track on microphones.
I would try for 100%. Check the DAT-Heads microphone FAQ before
buying.
Q1.5 What are some brands of microphones?
[I'll leave the previous text in for a few versions, but all of this
is probably superseded by the impressive-looking DAT-heads microphone
FAQ. See Q4.1.2. --DSF]
Realistic (i.e. Radio Shack) omnidirectional US$11.99
nflorin@med.unc.edu (Nathaniel Paul Florin) writes:
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