I'm looking for a new vocal microphone, and I could really use your help to figure out the one that works best on my voice. So I've set up a poll to see which mic people like most from my my shootout. I ran the mic shootout at the local recording studio, but I used my own Echo Audiofire Pre8 preamps (cause that's all I own).

Hey guys,
you may be asking why is he doing this again. Well, the last time I did this, my DAW (cubase) was messing up the sound of all the mics I had so it was not a proper shootout (thanks to GuitarLegend for his time and ears, without him I never would have found the issue).

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Did a mic shootout at my local Sam Ash. Not very scientific, or in a quiet room, but a test none the less. All mics were recorded holding the mic about 4in away from the mouth, just straight into their Avid Pro Tools interface, recorded to PT10, 24bit/48khz. Mics were leveled out so that level variances didn't affect the way you heard the mic.

I recorded a very short excerpt from "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"(for demonstration purposes only of course). The goal was to do a bit of a shootout between reverbs:

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Hi microphone lovers! I wrote some articles and created sound clips for a bunch of microphones on Gear-Wiki. I thought I'd share the links as I hope this can be useful.

Articles:

In the first corner in the black trunks:
Behringer Truth B2031A's (8 inch)

My life is pretty hectic for the next two months, but I'm considering doing an LDC vocal mic shootout after things settle down. This is mostly me wanting to add a better mic to the locker for female vocal. I feel like I do pretty well with my dynamics or the K2 for male vocals, but I'd like something more "elegant" for female vocals.