"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:
Judge for yourselves - here are two 'identical' clips (end of one track,
beginning of another) of extremely complex/crowded music recorded OPEN
MIC with only a peewee little lapel mic (all I got) with digital/SS
everything except the power amp on the EX3 clip, which is 300B SET
valve. No editing whatsoever, other than a Fade In and Out at the ends
to lessen the shock!

Without even listening, Keith, do yourself a favour and get a half decent
mic for this sort of test.

Lapel mics have a tailored frequency response to help with the fact that
they are in a poor position for speech. They have bass rolloff to counter
chest resonance, and mid range boost to try and improve intelligibility.
And often nothing at all at the HF end since it isn't necessary.



OK, point(s) taken - my problem is I wouldn't know where to even start.
Every time I Google microphones I end up he

http://www.microphones.ru/

Then he

http://www.microphones.ru/downloads.htm

....and then get hung up on the downloads! (A couple of the topmost links
don't work, but the ones that do are so *beguiling* - start from the
bottom....!!! :-)


But I'm open to suggestions, Plowie - the ideal mic plugs straight into the
computer I suppose, but summat like this does have a certain appeal:

http://www.oktava-online.com/mkl2500.htm

Would that be suitable for piano recordings?? :-)

PS. Forget stuff like this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEUMANN-SM69-S...QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MANLEY-REFEREN...QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Neumann-M147-T...QQcmdZViewItem

:-)


But an opinion on these would be appreciated...???

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MXL-V77-Tube-C...QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-ART-Tube-M...QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...keT rack=true