Matt Nolan
Well-known member
I'd like to make something clean and linear, low distortion and very low noise floor, but without breaking the bank. SDC for recording small metal percussion instruments in isolation, and not necessarily at high SPLs, but there will be high transients.
I think I have figured out a nice circuit to try, but I am wondering what might be the best mic to start out with in terms of keeping the body and the capsule. Cardioid, I think, as I'm not recording large sound sources and there may be background noises and less than ideal acoustics that I'd like to avoid picking up too much of, though omni with a pressure sphere might be worth looking at also.
I know that an LDC would make my SNR life easier, but it's not going to help on the linearity / accuracy front. Perhaps an SDC on the larger side of things might be worthy of consideration though or, that rare beast, the MDC? What are your thoughts, people?
Rode, T.Bone, Behringer, Oktava, something else?
The Oktava bodies don't leave much room to manoeuvre...
I want a real condenser capsule, not an electret. I don't want to be beholden to somebody else's FET right from the start.
Thanks in advance. Go!
I think I have figured out a nice circuit to try, but I am wondering what might be the best mic to start out with in terms of keeping the body and the capsule. Cardioid, I think, as I'm not recording large sound sources and there may be background noises and less than ideal acoustics that I'd like to avoid picking up too much of, though omni with a pressure sphere might be worth looking at also.
I know that an LDC would make my SNR life easier, but it's not going to help on the linearity / accuracy front. Perhaps an SDC on the larger side of things might be worthy of consideration though or, that rare beast, the MDC? What are your thoughts, people?
Rode, T.Bone, Behringer, Oktava, something else?
The Oktava bodies don't leave much room to manoeuvre...
I want a real condenser capsule, not an electret. I don't want to be beholden to somebody else's FET right from the start.
Thanks in advance. Go!