Skip to main content

audio example of ribbon mic on vocals

Lots of talk regarding ribbon mics these past few weeks, I thought I'd post an audio example of the sound of a ribbon on my voice.

I chose to write a track that would be reminscent of when these mics were used in their heyday - kind of a jazzy/pop standard thing.

For this track, I borrowed an RCA 44BX for the vocals on this one.

Preamp was a Grace Model 101.

Static when recording vocals

So I bought a 200 dollar mic, forgot the brand at the moment and an interface which I forgot too. It's something 8 something fx. But when I'm not recording, I can hear the voice through the speakers and it sounds amazing clear and everything but when I record or have the computer set up to rcord, there's aa static in the background and there's a delay... Same when I hook up guitar.