ok. doing a singer-songwriter thing. she plays quiet.
mic collection:
soundelux U95s
2x km184
2x earthworks TC 30k
Royer SF-12 [with custom transformer made for me and my mic preamp by greg, the designer of...].
mic preamp: pendulum mdp-1
into rosetta a/d.
i like to track hot...
what to do?
do i just need to suck it up and get a new mike [i'm thinking tlm 103...]?
what to do...i'm getting a noise floor of around -50 DBfs.
--owen
Comments
Get a Millennia Media or Great River; crank the hell out of the
Get a Millennia Media or Great River; crank the hell out of the pre and maybe run it through a RNC. This will give you little detectable noise...but be careful if she does anything significantly louder than what you expect (like dropping a pin :D ) because it will either squash it or cause your multitrack to peak. The Soundelux and Neumann's aren't what I would consider noisy when coupled with a high head room low noise pre. As a starting point (or if you are working quickly due to time restraints), I would put the U95s on voxs in Omni, and place the KM184 about 8"-9" from the 12th fret at a 45 degree angle facing the soundhole...but of course experiment if time allows. Don't forget to flip the phase switch to see what sounds more full. I've used a similar setup with a few quietish singer acoustic players (U47 w/KM84 though)...and I'm guessing the U95s and KM184 measure better on noise specs. I haven't measured it, but I hear very little or no detectable noise at all. Good Luck.
anyone else having this kinda prob w/the pendulum? it works fin
anyone else having this kinda prob w/the pendulum? it works fine on the km184, it just seems there is way more noise on the ribbon, even given comprable gain levels.
the soundelux, i have found, has alot more noise on this quiet material that i expected. but does it being a tube mic through tube pre have anything to do with it?
could it be that my mic is fuktup? should i call david bock about it? it just seems to have way lower output than i expected it to have. less than the km184, for sure.
messing with my head...
keep them coming....
If the 184's fine - what bothers you? did you try two of them fo
If the 184's fine - what bothers you? did you try two of them for the guitar (XY) or just one? another trick that worked for me (albeit with much cheaper mics and pre) is to track one small diaphragm condenser (AT-4041) together with the guitar pickup and pan the two tracks apart.
The TLM 103 is a good, solid, quiet mic and would work well in t
The TLM 103 is a good, solid, quiet mic and would work well in that application. When I'm recording quiet sounds I generally use either a THE TT-3m or a Blue Baby Bottle into an Avalon 2022. But that's just me.