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Better Sound for less money?!?! A humorous but truthful look of the discussions about methods and gear for making music.
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Cute. I liked the '60s industrial film look ('50 would have been B&W).
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My mother-in-law is a pro musician. She loves that ZOOM mic. She has a couple of better ones, but she always comes back to H2. Challenge was to get it in mint condition after they were discontinued and her stopped working. She didn't like the newer model H2n, she said sound was not the same... My take, you have to search for the one (or two) that works the best for your own sound. For years, I used SM57 and SM58. I tried several others but just didn't like the recorded sound. Breakthrough came about 12 years ago when I discovered BLUE Yeti Pro. A very versatile, multi capsule microphone which works as an Asio soundcard and also can be connected to standard XLR equipment. It just sounded right to me. In past decade I picked up a couple of other, more "mature" mics, but BLUE has a very special place in my heart. P.S. Funny thing that BLUE originated in the country I grew up, Latvia which came as a surprise  (Blue stands for Baltic Latvian Universal Electronics)
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My H2 will record but no longer likes batteries - wall electric is just fine. Still, it is a great little mic.
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funny stuff.... If I recall, a lot of those were sold. Back a few years, at a songwriter convention in a west coast city, there were vendors set up in the halls and rooms. One of those vendors was a company called Gauge Mics.... they had the big name, high dollar mics set up side by side with the way less expensive mics from Gauge. With headphones on and an A/B switch for each setup, you could compare the two side by side. For most of those.... it was nearly impossible to hear a difference and what difference there was, was for the most part, negligible, and mostly a matter of taste and color assuming you could hear it, when it came to sound quality. In other words, the much less expensive Gauge mics held up nicely to the name brands that were, on average, 10x as costly. https://www.gauge-usa.com/ Unfortunately for me, at the time, I had just spent $400 on a Rode NT-2A so I wasn't looking for a good condenser mic.
You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.comAdd nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both. The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
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My mic locker goes back to some Shure 545s and Altec mics I bought in 1969—still have them. Some mics sound better on certain voices and others suck on those same voices but sound great with other singers and that's a fact.
Having spent way, way too much money over the years, I found that the Neumann TLM 193 is the ideal vocal mic for myself and one other singer whom I record a lot—his tenor voice sounds nothing like mine which is a deep bass. That journey took me over 50 years.
I've never heard the one mic that sounds good on everything but have bought quite a few that made the claim over the decades.
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I got rickrolled at 1:41! 
-- David Cuny My virtual singer development blogVocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?BiaB 2025 | Windows 11 | Reaper | Way too many VSTis.
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