Vocals

[acidsaturation]

I use the little stereo one from my PC and distort the **** out of it..

A stereo microphone?

How does that work...?

:roll: oh my god, you are sooo behind the tymes...

It's just a crap one that came with a sound blaster, but it's quite good to plug into my MD walkman and record ****ed people burbling on about crap...

[Will]

Before buying a decent mic, I recorded sven vath-style, just used my headphones

This sounds worth a punt! Can anyone recommend some software to record vocals through my headphones for use in Reason? I assume they must be some free software I can download??

[vadarfone]

50hz!!!!

like you are going to want your vocals to get anywhere near that low anyway!!!

i am guessing you will want to record them in, effect them, slice them up, envelope them, distort them, process them, envelope them again, slice them into your rhythm work etc etc etc... just use any mic you can get, unless you are a frigging hippy and want to read from 'The Guardian' into the mic over your track.

[TechMouse]

just use any mic you can get, unless you are a frigging hippy and want to read from 'The Guardian' into the mic over your track.

... in which case, please don't bother?

[vadarfone]

haha. :) :)

[Basil Rush]

SM57
Instrument Microphone
40 to 15,000 Hz

SM58
Vocal Microphone
50Hz to 15kHz

so only about 10hz...

but that can make all the difference!

So, arguably, you might as well get the SM57 and then apply a hi-pass at 50hz for SM58 emulation?

:lol:

touche...

It's not actually that simple, you want to look at the frequency response curves for the m icrophones which varies considerably between the two. You can find them on Shure's web site I'm certain if you're curious.

In fact:

http://www.shuredistribution.co.uk/p...sm58_large.gif
http://www.shuredistribution.co.uk/p...sm57_large.gif

They probably have different frequency responses off axis as well ... not that that's probably gonna make a huge amount of difference but the basic curves above are important.

Usually you just have to pick a mic that sounds good though, never learnt much from staring at the curves, best to use them to confirm what you're hearing is coming from the mic rather than usingthem to choosethe mic.