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Choosing the Best Microphones for Your Home Recording Studio
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Summary: Learn how to choose the best microphones for your home recording studio in this free instructional music production video clip.
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Choosing the Best Microphones for Your Home Recording StudioHi! I’m Tad Donley and I’m speaking in behalf of Expert Village. Now here, the SM58s are the workhorse. This is the industry standard. This has been around for 30 years. Paul McCartney uses SM58 over any of the mike when he sings, you know why, the diaphragm is simple and it is 20-20 on each end and it is clean and you can do anything with them, anything, drums you can do anything, anything, did you know the SM58, the SM57 are the same diaphragm, it is just a different enclosure, same diaphragm. So you can use this for drums, just like the 57s you can use this for amplifiers just like 57s, it is the same diaphragm. And this has been trusted and true over anything. This will make your life real simple. If you try to get fancy on mikes, what happens is you get discoloration, you get this type of different sound, sometimes sounds kind of just a little weird and you have to work it out in the EQ and stuff like that. Just get the SM58.
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Yes the SM58 and SM57 are industry standard microphones, but this guy is not accurate. The frequency response is slightly different between these two microphones, which is why one is used more for vocals and the other is used on snare/toms or miking an amp cab. My students know more than this guy.
"Just get the SM58!" You won't have to work it out on the eq and stuff like that! Ha! Where did they get this guy from?
Another great job of speaking IN behalf of expert village Tad! "The sm57 and my wife have the same diaphragm" eeeeh! funny skit. nice job!
DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS JOKER! He is sadly spreading incorrect information to the masses. I wish they would take his videos down. He knows a bunch of Catch Phrases but is sadly mistaken on basic terminology and audio engineering concepts. He is quite biased towards and away from certain brand names and how they function, which I can only assume he doesn't understand. He can barley speak coherently on the subject matter. I don't claim to be an audio engineering guru even though I have many certifications and many more years of experience but I could back this guy up against a wall and make him cry.
This is worthless advice. The SM58 is a great mic, but he doesn’t understand what he’s talking about. Mics need to be selected based on the sound you’re recording. Coloration is not always a bad thing. And, his claim that the 58 is “20 to 20 on each end” is totally inaccurate. According to www.shure.com (the manufacturer), the SM58’s frequency response is 50 – 15000 Hz. I believe these videos should be removed due to the inaccurate and extremely biased information they contain.
Please, just make it go away. ____OK, so it's important to know that the SM-57 & SM-58 microphones are indeed very popular, inexpensive, 'work-horse' microphones. But it's important to know that they do not have a 20Hz-20kHz frequency response, and they are not the first, last and only word in recording microphones. It is important for a good engineer to understand the variety of tools we have available and to know when to use different microphones to capture the natural sound of acoustic instruments, or when to color and shade that sound with other microphones. The SM-57 & SM-58 have a particular color that works for some instruments in some situations, but just like you can't season every food you eat with only salt, you shouldn't try to record every sound with one generic microphone.
Oh my God- and I thought that the Village Idiot wouldn't screw this up. Again- very good posts prior to this one. I choose the 58 at times FOR it's coloration and because is it NOT 20-20K responsive. Tad Donley- long hair alone does not make you an engineer. You are a fine example of a "Pretengineer&q uot;. Again I can not stress enough, research. Visit some music supply websites and read the reviews. Educate yourself about microphone characteristics. Research on how different pre-amps can alter the way a microphone sound.
-- .. all these years we've been putting EQ controls on consoles .. all we really needed to do was just use a 58... boy do I feel stupid now! man .. he just revolutionized the industry! .. but wait ... didn't he say somewhere else that the "newman" U87 was the best mic and only mic you need for vocals .. but then Paul McCartney uses this one but why then? Another idiot video from the idiots that call themselves "experts"
As others have said above, the SM57 and SM58 are not flat from 20Hz to 20KHz. Here are the frequency response charts from Shure.com for the SM57 and SM58: SM57: http://shure.com/stellent/groups/public/@gms_gmi_web_us/documents/web_resource/site_img_us_rc_sm57_large.gif SM58: http://shure.com/stellent/groups/public/@gms_gmi_web_us/documents/web_resource/site_img_us_rc_sm58_large.gif Not only are their curves not flat, they are rather different, esp. above 2K. And, to repeat what others have said above, a good recording engineer should know how different mics color sound, and be able to use those colorations to get diverse sounds appropriate for different musicians. The "expertise" in this video, then, consists of factual errors and an exhortation NOT to develop the basic knowledge required to become a competent recording engineer. It should be revised or removed.
y r u on the "Best" all the time wow you r not the "Best" you suck @$$ hole man!!!