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Comparing four common vocal mics

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Comparing four common vocal mics

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Larry: Choosing a vocal mic for a recording session is one of the most important things you can do for the vocalist, for the song and everything. There's no wrong or right. A lot of mics have different qualities. Singers have different qualities, like my friend Erin Sutherland here. Everyone sings differently, and they sing differently on different songs. The mic's reactor for the different singers. I've spent tens of thousands of dollars amassing the collection of mics that I have available to me right now. It took a long time, it took a lot of work. I've got em now. And what I'll do frequently is put up a few mics, in this case four, and just hear what they really sound like on the singer. And what they sound like in the song. Sometimes you'll use, like, one mic for an entire album with a certain vocalist. Other times you'll try some mics out and go, you know, this would be great on slower songs. This would be great on faster songs. There's no right or wrong, like I said earlier…

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