Show 40 – Part II on Guitar Mics and Yamaha Monitor Review

This week Ryan tries out several mic positions to find out which sounds best for recording guitars and Jon reviews his new Yamaha monitors.

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All the files used in Ryan’s guitar segment can be downloaded here.

The answers to the mic shootout in #39:

1 4060 -b
2 414 -e
3 Sputnik -a
4 Solaris -c
5 2035 -d
6 Nova -f

Show 39 – Single Guitar Microphone Shootout and Vocal Mic Shootout Part II

This week Ryan takes 12 different microphones of varying types and polar patterns to find out which sounds best for recording guitars and Jon brings us part II of the vocal microphone shootout this time with a male vocal.

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All the files used in Ryan’s guitar segment can be downloaded here.

All the files used in Jon’s vocal segment can be downloaded here.

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Show 35 – Shotgun Mics and Home Studio to A Business (Part 2)

This week Jesse talks about shotgun mics and the whole group finish up the follow up questions that have been asked about making your home studio into a business.

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Show 025 – Subtractive EQ and the Electro-Voice RE20

This week Jon buys a used Electro-Voice RE20 and does a review.  After we did the show and thought that the mic sounded a little weak in the bass, it was compared to two other identical mics.  Jon got the dud.  Ryan answers a listener’s question about using subtractive EQ to fix your mixes.

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Electro-Voice RE20

Shure SM7

Heil PR40

Sennheiser MD421

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