Xtraclip,
I guess what I mean by timbre I'm really talking about texture or how the preson's voice sound. This is when you really have to test your ears and listen. For instance, I wouldn't necessarily use a condensor mic that outputs in the mid-highs to highs on a person's voice that is very nasally (sp?) or bright. I personally wouldn't like to use gruff/heavy sounding vocals on a dynamic coil. Also most, if not all, dynamic mics use a small diaphragm. To really capture vocals accurately, one should try to use a mic with a large diaphragm (most condensors). The style of music shouldn't matter because you want the vocals to be recorded with a mic that has as close a flat freq output as possible. The reason why I use the SP C1s are they come close to the U87s (almost every commecial studio on almost every released album had vocals recorded with these things)....they output pretty close to flat with just a little on the top end. I rarely need to put too much eq after I track vocals with these mics. Check them out, a U87 would run around US$2.5K. The SP C1s go for around US$200. Even though the Rodes are popular, many pros (especially the master engineers) I'd spoken to are shocked at the results I get from them and pick up a few themselves. When mi bredren come over to lay tracks. These are the first mics they pull from the closet.
- KB