Hey guys!
I always thought that the mic i have was pretty cool, because it always sounded good with the female voice I'm working with. However, last week I was in another studio and was able to compare this mic with another.
The result was pretty interesting: While my mic sounded good on smooth vocals and in mixes where the voice has a lot of space, the studio mic (i think it was a rhode) sounded harsh ...but brilliant if you record Rap.
This made me think. Are there actually mics that are preferred in certain genres, voice colors, singing styles...? I think most mic information sheets are way to unspecific with discribing the mic's characteristic.
Music genres and mics
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- KVRist
- 479 posts since 6 Nov, 2010
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- KVRAF
- 7120 posts since 22 Jan, 2005 from Sweden
It sounds a little bit similar to the days when guitarplayers were suggested to use a solid state transistor amp after playing in tube amps forever.
Sounded dreadful for a lot of reasons - pickups in guitar produce not so nice tone and tube amps camoflague a lot of the odd harmonics by producing even ones.
There are no rules that fit all genre, I think.
Some use a SM58 in studio since they like how they sound in this mike. They don't want hifi showing all weaknesses.
If running a harmonica you want massive distortion going with it.
So as you said - I think very much so it's genre thingy.
Sounded dreadful for a lot of reasons - pickups in guitar produce not so nice tone and tube amps camoflague a lot of the odd harmonics by producing even ones.
There are no rules that fit all genre, I think.
Some use a SM58 in studio since they like how they sound in this mike. They don't want hifi showing all weaknesses.
If running a harmonica you want massive distortion going with it.
So as you said - I think very much so it's genre thingy.