Comments on: Mic Reviews http://www.baconworks.com/archives/922 Celtic music, fife and drum, and original music by Greg Bacon Sun, 25 Sep 2011 05:03:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Igor http://www.baconworks.com/archives/922/comment-page-1#comment-639 Igor Sat, 09 May 2009 15:53:47 +0000 http://www.baconworks.com/?p=922#comment-639 Listening to the samples without knowing which mic was which, my least favorites were the Neumann and the Shure (the Shure being a bit thinner than the Neumann), and the ones I preferred were the Charter Oaks and the Beyerdynamic, with the Rode being somewhere in-between. That said, the differences aren't astronomical, and you could get a good recording with any of these mics. All of these mics could be made to sound like each other easily enough with EQ. BTW, how can you possibly know which mic is giving the most accurate representation of your guitar? The way your guitar sounds to you when you're playing it is probably very different from how it would sound if you were listening to it from where your mic was positioned. Is it a question of the Neumann being more accurate, or perhaps of the Neumann providing what you <I>think</I> your guitar <I>should</I> sound like? Listening to the samples without knowing which mic was which, my least favorites were the Neumann and the Shure (the Shure being a bit thinner than the Neumann), and the ones I preferred were the Charter Oaks and the Beyerdynamic, with the Rode being somewhere in-between.

That said, the differences aren’t astronomical, and you could get a good recording with any of these mics. All of these mics could be made to sound like each other easily enough with EQ.

BTW, how can you possibly know which mic is giving the most accurate representation of your guitar? The way your guitar sounds to you when you’re playing it is probably very different from how it would sound if you were listening to it from where your mic was positioned. Is it a question of the Neumann being more accurate, or perhaps of the Neumann providing what you think your guitar should sound like?

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