Choosing the Best Microphones for Your Home Recording Studio

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Part of the video series: How to Set Up a Home Recording Studio

Summary: Learn how to choose the best microphones for your home recording studio in this free instructional music production video clip.

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By Tad Donley
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Tad Donley is a 25-year veteran producer, writer, singer, musician and music video creator who owns the popular Pro Sound And Video Recording Studio in Houston, TX.read more

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jhook1 said

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on 9/7/2008 y r u on the "Best" all the time wow you r not the "Best" you suck @$$ hole man!!!

on 8/14/2008 As others have said above, the SM57 and SM58 are not flat from 20Hz to 20KHz. Here are the frequency response charts from Shure.com for the SM57 and SM58:

SM57: http://shure.com/stellent/groups/public/@gms_gmi_web_us/documents/web_resource/site_img_us_rc_sm57_large.gif

SM58: http://shure.com/stellent/groups/public/@gms_gmi_web_us/documents/web_resource/site_img_us_rc_sm58_large.gif

Not only are their curves not flat, they are rather different, esp. above 2K.

And, to repeat what others have said above, a good recording engineer should know how different mics color sound, and be able to use those colorations to get diverse sounds appropriate for different musicians.

The "expertise" in this video, then, consists of factual errors and an exhortation NOT to develop the basic knowledge required to become a competent recording engineer. It should be revised or removed.

prosound said

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on 8/2/2008 -- .. all these years we've been putting EQ controls on consoles .. all we really needed to do was just use a 58... boy do I feel stupid now! man .. he just revolutionized the industry! .. but wait ... didn't he say somewhere else that the "newman" U87 was the best mic and only mic you need for vocals .. but then Paul McCartney uses this one but why then?

Another idiot video from the idiots that call themselves "experts"

tadblows said

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on 8/2/2008 Another great job of speaking IN behalf of expert village Tad! "The sm57 and my wife have the same diaphragm" eeeeh! funny skit. nice job!

thenighttrain said

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on 8/2/2008 DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS JOKER! He is sadly spreading incorrect information to the masses. I wish they would take his videos down. He knows a bunch of Catch Phrases but is sadly mistaken on basic terminology and audio engineering concepts. He is quite biased towards and away from certain brand names and how they function, which I can only assume he doesn't understand. He can barley speak coherently on the subject matter. I don't claim to be an audio engineering guru even though I have many certifications and many more years of experience but I could back this guy up against a wall and make him cry.

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" Hi! I’m Tad Donley and I’m speaking in behalf of Expert Village. Now here, the SM58s are the workhorse. This is the industry standard. This has been around for 30 years. Paul McCartney uses SM58 over any of the mike when he sings, you know why, the diaphragm is simple and it is 20-20 on each end and it is clean and you can do anything with them, anything, drums you can do anything, anything, did you know the SM58, the SM57 are the same diaphragm, it is just a different enclosure, same diaphragm. So you can use this for drums, just like the 57s you can use this for amplifiers just like 57s, it is the same diaphragm. And this has been trusted and true over anything. This will make your life real simple. If you try to get fancy on mikes, what happens is you get discoloration, you get this type of different sound, sometimes sounds kind of just a little weird and you have to work it out in the EQ and stuff like that. Just get the SM58."

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