a good mic pls

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@plautus

Try recording in your mic , with your hand in front of your mouth. How does it sound? Muddy & Dark.

Are those microphone problems? No
That's why you need acoustic treatment

 

[micolas]

ok, this has little to do with the mic problom I'm having but thanks

this would only make the voice sound more 'inside the video', it wont take away the microphone issue like the harshness, the muddiness, etc. THese are problems of the microphone itself

On the contrary
Reflections, resonances, room modes, standing waves, etc., reside in phase changes, and damage to the frequency response (random peaks and dips), so in short, they change the sound captured by the microphone, they mutilate it.
[Voice-room-microphone] is an interactive system.

 

[pmfalcman]

Guys, what the hell are we doing here?

Experts are showing extreme good heartedness and helpfulness.
Against all the odds....
They also, apparently, have oceans of patience. Or Himalayas. (Pick one)
Me, not an expert in mics, I'm just being sarcastic.

 

[micolas]

Experts are showing extreme good heartedness and helpfulness.
Against all the odds....
They also, apparently, have oceans of patience. Or Himalayas. (Pick one)

Me, not an expert in mics, I'm just being sarcastic.

...you're just an artist/philosopher wandering around here among other philosophers/artists...

 

[pmfalcman]

@plautus - tell me please:

Why do you ask questions if you ignore the answers?

Your recording place is accoustically awful. Tragic. But you know better that the problem lies in your microphone. OK, sell it. Throw away. Get rid of it.
Everything is perfect but the microphone.

Buy a BM-700. It fits your recording condtions perfectly.

Or read the bloody forum. Twice. And then again. And again. (I did it).
And build yourself a perfect microphone. All the necessary information is here. You dont know how to solder? The answer is simple: learn. It's not difficult.
Just start reading. Paying attention to what is written. Paying attention to the answers that experts gave you.
You know nothing (it's painfully obvious) yet you ignore what knowleable gremium tells you. Every bloody advice.
Why you ask then?

 

[plautus]

untreated vs treated room

untreated - sound with echo
treated - same sound but without the echo...

On the same note: A 1000$ mic doesnt sound the same as a 5$ mic under the same bad untreated room conditions. The difference in sound is humongous

U guys need to watch some 'before and after room treatment' videos!

 

[micolas]

i own a rode nt1. Im unhappy, it sounds muddy

"Plautus: But to me on the rode nt1 recordings it sounds boomy, closed, lack of detail, and harsh."

Ironically, the "fools" at *MusicRadar* seem to have chosen...
...drums please! :
Rode NT1 !

If u recommend me the tlm103, it is overly bright, is what i ahve to say

TLM103 !

https://www.musicradar.com/news/best-condenser-mics



( quod erat demonstrandum! )

 

[Khron]

On the same note: A 1000$ mic doesnt sound the same as a 5$ mic under the same bad untreated room conditions.

The higher-quality the mic, the more accurately it adheres to "garbage in, garbage out".

Or fine, if you're the expert at THAT, rent a U87 (~2k retail price), and see how it sounds in your room.

U guys need to watch some 'before and after room treatment' videos!

And you've got a hell of a lot of reading, learning and growing up to do...

You know nothing (it's painfully obvious) yet you ignore what knowleable gremium tells you. Every bloody advice.
Why you ask then?

Well, we don't know how many of us he has or hasn't added to his ignore list...

 

[MaxxDM]

there's a thing called EQ that makes microphones less 'muddy'

 

[pmfalcman]

untreated vs treated room

untreated - sound with echo
treated - same sound but without the echo...

1. Not "echo" but reverberations or reflections. These are precisely defined terms. You cannot have echo in a small room.

2. It's more complicated than that. A lot more. See: @micolas ' post #162.

3. Yes - a treated room. Your is not treated.
Well, technically it is... it is badly treated.

U guys need to watch some 'before and after room treatment' videos!

You, man, need to learn a lot!

 

[pmfalcman]

Well, we don't know how many of us he has or hasn't added to his ignore list...

You think he's shooting questions but sees no answers?

 

[plautus]

The higher-quality the mic, the more accurately it adheres to "garbage in, garbage out".

Or fine, if you're the expert at THAT, rent a U87 (~2k retail price), and see how it sounds in your room.



And you've got a hell of a lot of reading, learning and growing up to do...



Well, we don't know how many of us he has or hasn't added to his ignore list...

I had them all here and I compared a tlm103, tlm193 with my rode nt1. The tlm103 sound a lot different than the other 2 mics. UNpleasently bright just like I know the sound from other videos. So there u go!

 

[micolas]

I had them all here and I compared a tlm103, tlm193 with my rode nt1. The tlm103 sound a lot different than the other 2 mics. UNpleasently bright just like I know the sound from other videos. So there u go!

The key word in your statements is "HERE", i.e. in the room not properly treated.

Here's the proof you're not reading:
https://groupdiy.com/threads/a-good-mic-pls.90113/post-1192475

 

[ubxf]

untreated vs treated room

untreated - sound with echo
treated - same sound but without the echo...

On the same note: A 1000$ mic doesnt sound the same as a 5$ mic under the same bad untreated room conditions. The difference in sound is humongous

U guys need to watch some 'before and after room treatment' videos!

Are you a recent grad of YouTube university ?

 

[micolas]

Are you a recent grad of YouTube university ?

It's full of know-it-alls, graduates of YouTube Universities, Tik-Tok Academy, etc. The problems arise when they have to apply deep, solid knowledge in real life.

 

[ubxf]

I could be totally off base but does It seems like an AI prompt " troll this thread with rude childish random comments "

 

[micolas]

I could be totally off base but does It seems like an AI prompt " troll this thread with rude childish random comments "

I really wanted to ask a group admin to check some things about a certain account. Too many aberrations are generated.

 

[DFischer]

You think he's shooting questions but sees no answers?

He wants simple answers.

The best microphone is the Line Audio CM4. It has a very flat frequency response. Buy that and all your problems will be solved.