shootout: random dynamic mics -- VERY unprofessional

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:55 am

I have the day off today. Here's what I did this morning:

a few dynamic vocal mics .. on a guitar cab. a pisspoor guitar cab and pisspoor guitar. in a pisspoor room. also i'm a pisspoor guitar player. now that you've been warned...

i have a guitar looper so i set up a loop, and started swapping mics. all were positioned nearly identically.. about 10" from the center of the cone, directly on axis.

link1 audix om2
link2 shure beta58
link3 ev nd767a
link4 shure sm57
link5 another sm57
link6 senn e604

mic -> onyx 1640 -> g5 mac -> tracktion -> 16bit aiff -> ~190vbr mp3

enjoy!

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 1:34 pm

Wow...that EV has some weird high end open-ness thing going on.

What kind of guitar/amp/cab are we talking about here?

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:13 pm

Is it just me (with headphones) or do all but the EV sound a bit "muddy?"

I thought the e604 was 2nd clearest (after the EV).

Not sure "clear" is the right descriptor... maybe "brighter" in the upper mids and highs would be better...

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:33 pm

sshack wrote:

What kind of guitar/amp/cab are we talking about here?

the squire special... squire strat through a squire champ combo

the boss looper definitely degrades the signal a bit too..

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:58 pm

I've heard worse with better gear.
Thanks for posting those.

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 6:42 pm

tifftunes wrote:

Is it just me (with headphones) or do all but the EV sound a bit "muddy?"

I thought the e604 was 2nd clearest (after the EV).

Not sure "clear" is the right descriptor... maybe "brighter" in the upper mids and highs would be better...

most of these mics would be better suited for close mic'ing of course.. most stage performers would keep mic closer than 10" away from their mouth. that could have something to do with it. the tone of the amp itself is a bit muddy too.

i guess this is more for "relative to each other" sort of thing.

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