| Whether you are just starting your very own home | | | | elevated shelf when you are dealing with treble. It's a |
| recording studio or you are just looking for some good | | | | very powerful mic that is great for rock vocals. It's |
| mics, there are a couple of mics I would recommend: a | | | | brightness helps to cut through any dense background |
| Shure SM57 and a Beyer M 88. | | | | sound but doesn't sound too tingy and too bright. |
| To start the SM57 microphone is a dynamic mic. It's | | | | I tend to use this mic more on the kick drum when |
| great for a wide assortment of different instruments | | | | recording. It captures the bass in the bottom while |
| like acoustic guitars, violins, brass, pianos and even | | | | retaining the crispness you get from the smack of the |
| vocals | | | | kick drum. |
| If arranged correctly the SM57s can get a really great | | | | And Similar to the SM57 it too is built like a tank. It |
| overhead sound on a live drum kit or even record a | | | | doesn't get smacked around as often as my SM57 |
| horn section or choir. Another good quality is that they | | | | but it does take a beating when our rockers scream |
| are built like tanks. I use mine for micing snare drums | | | | into it. |
| and they get whacked all the time by drum sticks | | | | So with these two microphones you can record pretty |
| during a recording session. | | | | much everything you can think of and get a really |
| The other mix is another dynamic mic called the Beyer | | | | decent sound out of it. Now you just need to start |
| M88. It's a hypercardioid microphone that has an | | | | building your collection. |