On Wednesday (19th of April), my group members and I did a microphone test with Simon Navakas before recording our demo take for my new single ‘Sofa’.
Below I will include links for a preview of each microphone and talk about the sonic characteristics which I noticed between them and why we decided to go with the AKG-414 and u87.
AT2050 – This microphone had a much ‘thinner’ sound, we felt it had a lot of top end but didn’t give us enough ‘body’ in comparison to the u87 or 414.
AKG-414 – The 414 had a very nice and bright tone to it, after recording it we immediately were impressed and we’re considering it to me the one used in the final demo.
RE20 – This microphone was very dull to our ears, when listening in comparison to the AKG or the AT2050 it has a good amount of low-mids but not enough brightness to pick up the tone of Simon’s voice that we wanted.
SM7b – This microphone is great and always seems to give a great overall awesome performance, we decided to go with the condenser microphones because it had a stronger top end and gave an overall brighter sound that we were after.
U87 – The U87 recorded a very clear performance of Simon, we decided to use this because it’s always a very popular microphone and is well known in the industry for recording Hip-hop and Rap vocals.
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