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    Seventhson is offline Registered User
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    Vocal home recording equipement

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    Hello,
    I know there are already tons of threads about mics, preamps...
    I know every singer is different and there is no universal solution, something that works for a singer does not necessary works for an other, and one mic can sound good with a preamp and not good with an other.

    The problem is that I live in France, where local stores don't have enough equipement to make good comparisons. So before I drive to Paris or Germany where there are bigger stores, I'd like to have a few advices, because for a singer, it's not easy to both sing and test equipement at the same time!

    For now, I own an old M Audio FW1814 audio interface which still seems to do its job, and I'd like to improve my home recorded vocal takes.
    I sing progressive metal (mainly clean, like Dream Theater, sometimes Symphony X...), my voice is quite complex cause I can sing strong baritones stuff (like Matt Barlow from Iced Earth) and sometimes cleaner and lighter tenor stuff (like Geoff Tate from Queensryche).

    So I assume the first thing to buy is a good mic and a good preamp, and which work well together!
    For the mic, and to record home, I don't know if I should buy a good dynamic (Shure SM7b, EV RE20...) or an average condenser (Rode NT2, AKG C214, Audio Technica AT4040, Blue...).
    For the preamp, its seems there are 2 schools of thought : buying a clean transparent preamp (Focusrite Isa One, Grace Design M101...) and add coloration with EQ and compressor plugins (later hardware), or buying a colored preamp (Golden Age Project Pre-73, Summit Audio 2Ba-221, UA Solo 610...)

    The budget is around 1000€/$ for the whole.
    Thank you for your advices!

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    Dreamcaseal is offline Registered User
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    For home use I highly recommend you get a condenser mic because you'll be adjusting the audio with software to get it to sound like a condenser mic if you use a dynamic its the reason why they have a SM58 and sm58a. the sm58a tries to be more like a condenser cause the 58 isnt crisp enough.
    Last edited by Dreamcaseal; 05-06-2012 at 06:03 AM.

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