I have a small home studio and I am looking to purchase my first high end mic. It will be running directly into the preamps on my Apogee Duet interface. I will use it mainly for recording my Taylor GS5 and Vocals and will occasionally use it for piano as well. I have about 1000$ to spend and I am looking for the best mic.

Hello everyone,

Im about to purchase 3 mic's, for mainly drums, but also guitar, and bass, and possibly vocals. i would just use the three to record the whole band just for fun. Im not sure if i should throw down the extra 150 for the Shure mics or stay on the budget side and get 3 decent mics.

Should i stay on the budget side and get AKG P S 3?

I'm working on my first short film. New to the art. Am in the process of getting the audio gear I need. I've done a fair amount of research on what I need to record dialogue indoors (which is all I need to do for this project). My understanding is that the best type of mic for my purposes is a small diaphragm condenser with a hypercardiod pattern.

I prefer the 160s to the 451, but I don't like either that much for solo piano. I can post examples of my test recordings.

I know the E version of the 451 mic doesn't have the roll off switch.
But apart from this, do they sound exactly the same or is there any difference?
Both using the CK1 capsule.

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I've been getting into post production stuff lately, and found myself needing a shotgun mic. I really haven't try any shotgun besides the Sennheiser MKH 70 for a project when i was in school.

well, the title is quite straightforward... if you had to decide between these two, specially for recording vocals or instruments into a condenser mic and not get sound filtering out of them, which would you choose?

cheers!

Very impressive AKG video :

I have $3000 (maybe a little more) that I'm going to use to upgrade my mic or preamp...or both. Considering that I have the following, what would you recommend I upgrade, and to what?

KEEP IN MIND THIS IS A Mic THAT WILL BE USED 95% FOR RAP!

AKG 414
dbx 286A

Basically, how will I see the greatest improvement in my ending vocal sound?

I found some Black Akg c1000s. Are these a older model. if so whats the difference from the new ones?