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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