Daniel James
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Season’s best to all you guys for getting involved with this. Really appreciate your comments and experience.
The Audio Technica AE5400 condenser mics look like a great logical step up for my needs, Ty. I’ll add them to my wish list. Cheers.
All the best.
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Thanks Peter, I appreciate your honesty and respect the professional position you’re coming from. I absolutely understand you get what you pay for!
Ideally I’d love to arrive at the venue with a few mic options in my kit but I think I asked DV for a good all-rounder for the recordings I do that wouldn’t break the bank and could take a bit of abuse. I guess they thought the SM58 fitted the bill.
If nothing else I’ll have some more mics in my collection and I can start saving toward some of your suggestions.
Cheers
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Quite possibly. It was Digital Village so don’t know how they stack up in the scheme of things:
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Thanks for this info, Peter. Appreciate you taking the time.
I was sold the SM58 by an audio retailer as being the mic that would do what we wanted having told them the problems we experienced with the condensers in ‘live’ situations.
This is their description:
“The SM58 is the most popular vocal microphone in the world for live performance, studio recording and speech.”
Like I say, they said they’d be good for speech but I’m starting to question whether I’ve been mis-sold?
The reason I (we) want to own the equipment is because we do about two or three of these events per month and the hiring costs would soon rack up I think. We also need to send the equipment out to regional reps to record certain events on occasions so gear that can stand up to being knocked about is quite important.
I’ve not yet tested the SM58 personally but I’ve heard it in action on videos and understand what you’re saying. In some events the person speaking will have to hold the mic, in others they are sat at a table with the mic on a stand/boom so I guess it’s up to us to ensure they use them correctly and for the moderator to control the line of questioning so it’s directed at one person.
Thanks again.
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Ty/David – Thanks for the information about the mixers.
Peter/David – I’ve not had anyone suggest to me before that the SM58 wouldn’t do the job. I’ve been told that they would give me a good sound from 12″ away from the mouth and assumed that as a vocal/speech mic they would be fine. Certainly the dealer that sold them to me suggested that anyway. I guess I’ll find out soon enough. I was using omni-directional condensers but they just picked up too much room noise so I was recommended getting dynamic mics.
Those mic suggestions you gave me look great, but I would need at least four and at that price it’s too hot for my budget at the moment. With lav mics, I’d also have a problem if I had only four but then 5-6 people to record. I was thinking that at least with the SM58 it can be passed around?
I guess there’s no one-mic-fits-all solution but I thought the SM58 would cover most of the situations I find myself in (generally interior rooms with tons of room noise).
Anyway, great information guys, lots for me to think about for the future when I can add to my kit.
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Thanks again, Ty. Looks like I can get an Audio Technica used for around £250 here in the UK which is in my price range.
With regard to the mixers, I’ll have to work towards owning a 442 so in the interim, other than the rotary pot issue which I can see would be a problem, would you say those were reasonable compact mixers?
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That’s great information, Ty. Thank you.
I’m actually struggling to find a Shure FP410 here in the UK but will keep my eye out on eBay (unless I can get one shipped from the US).
I was considering your other option of using a Mackie or similar. Because I’m on the move I definitely want something compact and was considering this:
Looking at some videos and the dimensions in the spec the Mackie still seems fairly large but I’ve heard decent reviews of the Soundcraft 124 which is quite a bit smaller:
Although discontinued the 124 still seems widely available.
Would you say it’s suitable or better to get the larger Mackie and just accept the size/weight.
Many thanks again.
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Sounds ideal, thanks Eric.