Great video! But I really want a "VOCAL" version of this. I think 90% of people who use cheap mics is to record vocals. That would be very interesting!
can't be done. especially not in a thick drake, parrtynextdoor, gunna, or pop type of mix... you might be close but you gonna sound like Wake not drake.
Hey man, I've watched many of your videos now. This one by far is my favorite. I really appreciated you taking the time to show how you would use the sound to its natural advantage at the end. You should make more mixing videos like that. Always good content. Finally committed to subscribing
This was a great video. I liked the whole idea of running through the process of working with a recording to get a desirable result. (Especially when the starting recording was not optimal.) There are a lot of people that are working with the materials they have at hand -- focusing more on the process is beneficial for that kind of situation. (Okay, this comment is really badly worded...hope the point gets across...)
Thanks a lot for your effort! I think the comb filter like difference could be the result of comparing not only two different microphones but actually two different microphone positions(!) which definitely cause some phase cancellations. But at the end of the day the most accurate eq match would be by recording a speaker playing a recorded (not randomly generated) pink noise from the exact same microphone resp. membrane position ... if that's possible at all .. and sync these recordings before eq matching. But most interesting would be a match by convolution. I'm pretty sure that would surprise some experts by failing blind comparison tests. Hehe
Im also somewhat guilty of that, i'm just not that much into audio gear specially atm due some things going on in my life/personal reasons but i am subbed if i see anything that catches my attention I watch.
@@dashtesla To some extent, probably everybody is. There lives an entire hive of channels in my inbox just for occasional giveaways :D But I was being ironic in this case, because I consider this channel one of the very few actually helpful ones - and most of the time the content is quite entertaining even when I can't care less for the product in question.
Thanks, good video. Video request: would love to see you making retro style drums with a "gated" reverb. i.e. taking a retro Linn drum snare/kick sample and making it into a gated reverb one from scratch.
If you really want to match the EQ to the most delicate detail, use iZotope's Ozone Match EQ, which doesn't have a limit on bands or detail. I do think the Pro-Q's Match EQ is really good, but it can't really be compared to Ozone's.
If you made a collection of Pro-Q presets for the Zingyou BM-8000 to emulate industry standard mics, I would happily pay for it. I picked up 2 Zingyou BM-8000s after your first video about it. I use them as ambient mics for live recordings, it's great to have a set of large diaphragm condensers that I don't have to worry about the audience putting a drink over or an artist kicking over (or off the stage) in the dark. They certainly beat the capsules on a tascam portable for this particular purpose and actually cost less.
In my humble experience with a good microphone for the right instrument you have basically just to level and each a little bit but with others it can sound right but you have to eq a lot .....
Maybe you can record some pink noise with cheap and expensive mics and match de EQ to apply that curve to any other audio? Obviously it won't be the same, but maybe you can get a "better" sound from a cheap mic using thar reference curve.
Nice vid thanks! Usually i only work with virtual piano’s “sample based”. The thing annoying me is so many different phase issue’s on different notes which need to be corrected note by note to have natural frequency response, timbre and proper stereo image. You cant really reproduce a excellent Mic by EQ’ing , but like you being creative, you can have a great sounding piano in your mix recorded by a cheaper Mic! Happy mixing and mastering. Cheers.
I would like a video that compares mics that are cheaper but claim to sound like something a U47 since most of us don't have a U47 to test. Like TechZone's Stellar X2 Vintage that's supposed to be based on the 47
Interesting; as with the previous session with el cheapo mike it's all about the timbre of the music. I think the U47 captures the tonal colours far more accurately. So, I suppose, when mixing, it's easy to subtract what's there than add what isn't.
If I take a u-47 and record some music and then record the same on a cheap microphone and then add a match eq, will it work or is there a better method?
That's a nice and realxing piano piece. Fit's the weather quite well, it has a sort of daydreaming feel to it. Could you make a video some day on "bit crushing" samples to create a vintage 8 bit sampler type of sound? I.e. What you typically would get out of a fairlight CMI or an amiga computer.
Very interesting. Originally, I thought this video was going to go in a different direction. I have heard that one reason cheap mics don’t sound that good is because of the following. I can’t look it up at the moment so don’t quote me on this but is something along these lines. The condenser part of these cheap mic designs is not compatible with the circuit design. This leads to a harsh sound. Something about how these designs were copied from the european makers. Websites like micparts and others as well as boutique mic manufacturers like Advanced Audio talk about this in more accurate detail and sell capsules that fix this issue, or even new circuits. Would be really cool to see you do a mic mod. Or, have one done for you and test it.
i mean this is the idea in the new modeling mics ... so yeah ... the reuse the eq curve you could also convert this into a Impulse response and yeah ...
The instrument must sound good, the musician must play good and the room must sound good. choose the correct type of microphone, place it correctly and probably you get a good recording, also with the cheapest mic.
Zum Vergleich dieser Mikros : bei vielen Aufnahmen sind die Ergebnisse sehr ähnlich....aber bei schwachen Signalen und schwachen Sängern tun sich Welten auf....da ist bei den hochwertigeren Mikros in schwachen Signalen mehr Druck und Substanz......teste es mal aus....eine gute Großmembran oder Kleikondensor hat ein druckvolleren sound auch noch drei vier Meter entfernt gegenüber den preiswerteren Geräten wobei es gut gibt......bei Mikros oder Boxen gibt es einen Grundsatz....ausprobieren und dann kaufen......wobei ein 47 er nehm ich auch gerne geschenkt...😉
Nice one, love your videos dude! Have you heard of the Slate Digital virtual microphone system? Be interesting to see you do video - test / snake oil on that.
Hello from Berlin and thanks for your nice Videos. Is it possible with the *white noise frequency response* of a microphone like the Telefunken u47, to make my mic sound similar, even when I dont own the Telefunken U47?
Yo besides instrument use, Using a cheap mic for vocals is okay, if u know how to mix nd master, the need for a pricey high end mic starts to be unnecessary.
I need your help please, can you advise me on how to make the voice recording sound good with that nw800 microphone. My phone's mic sounds better. Please help me I'm using Reaper.
It's a Neumann. Very rare because they didn't make them very long. I think he bought the components for this one bit by bit and built it. There was one on Reverb a couple years ago for $18K.
I thought the piano sounded nice here, but that's such a lovely instrument in this context. I'm guessing if you were doing something with more transients and more aggressive it might not give you as good of results. Let's learn some techniques for mixing vocals to get the lead up front and the backgrounds still sitting in the mix right and not too busy.
Listening on a $200 Bose bt speaker, and the cheap mike still sounds obviously duller, and also boomy from the 200Hz boost. (I think I liked it better dry.) Also: let's go full Beatles LOL!
I get satisfying results with my music, but my vocals never quite "sit" along the other instruments. Like, they sound very good on their own, it never with all the rest. Will you ever do, or do you already have, a video on how to address this problem? Like making cheaply recorded vocals sound like they belong in a mix?
mvyper maybe look at the arrangement of the song first, you might do well to find a bit of frequency space for your vocal before worrying too much about processing, that’s going to make your life easier.
Fabfilter Eq match is awful. Try Izotope. I've experimented with this thoroughly. Fab just gets u roughly there, it struggles a lot with the low end. Izotope Match Eq was increible BUT it has latecy unfortunately. For some reason creating an Impulse response didn't do the trick which is very unusual.
the best way to make a cheap mc sounds great is by using a good mic pre like ... V76 ... V72 V476 ... maybee 1073? never underestimate the colouration of a high gain mic pre. if you dont have the money just put a "cheap" signal transformer between mic and mic pre it can make a big difference.(or add to the mic)
What free software would you recommend for people trying to make their mic recordings sound better? Unless you did that video already. Then, umm... hi.
its bullshit that you compare a valve with that cheap condenser a valve produces a way denser sound due to the valves .... compare a U87 or TLM103 with it....that would be fair
Maybe Zingyou should do the matching EQ trick using pink noise with a few famous mics and release the Pro-Q settings (or even release their own plugin with those EQ settings), lol :)
No its called Intensity (by ZynaptiQ) and it also exists. It has been tested by this guy, but that time he really didn't understand the plugin and made a peculiar test.
The coolest thing about this video isnt even the experiment with cheap versus expensive microphone. The coolest thing is your immense knowledge and explanations of the tools you use. Thank you! I have learned more in this video that I never even considered about musicality in microphone construction than any of the books or articles I've read. Excellent!
Guys, subscribe to this guy. You might not always agree with him, nor like every video. But he still makes high quality content, cares about his subscribers and has so many interesting videos. I'm a long-time subscriber and never regretted it. Let's get him to 100k, he deserves it!
So what you could do is make this a pre-set silver people who have the microphone then go online hey $10 in buy a preset that makes their $10 microphone sound very very good
I'd bet if you do a Match-EQ against a matched pair of microphones, you might still get those spaced peaks in the EQ, just because 2 capsules that are a few inches apart will indeed have some comb filtering between them, and that could fool the Match-EQ function.
wow the u47 is... its wider and fuller. great suggestion at the end of using what you have, to work along with it - instead of working against it/ trying to "fix" it.
Can you make a cheap microphone sound good? Yeah you can. There are quite a few cheap and good sounding microphones out already. Comparing $22 microphones to U47s is kind of pointless though. A U47 sounds like it sounds without any EQ. You should never have to EQ it. Ever. If it's not working in a particular context you'll need to swap it out for another microphone. Working with old school Neumanns is quite easy. The most difficult thing is the placement and then gain staging. After that you're done. You should never have to process them. Have a look at how Al Schmidt works. The guy never uses EQ for anything. It's usually a "move the mic" or "swap it for another" kind of troubleshooting process if something is not working. You won't be able to do that with cheap mics. I'd rather with work expensive mics for that reason alone. They sound great and you should never have to process them. (creative effects notwithstanding)
I feel like a routine studio maintenance video would be really successful. More home studios need to see stuff like that. "Essential Studio Maintenance Practices" or something could be a title.
Hi Couldn't you record a part with noise with both mics and create a profile eq with match that you use for the cheaper mics? So in the future you use that as a profile for that mic? Of course it will miss character but it would be close I think
Wytse, this was foremost one of the best videos in my opinion. Thanks a lot for taking your time and sweat for such good quality! I'm sure and hope you reach far with this, your passion.
I just came across the video just now. I want to let you know that I watch basically all of your videos, but the last 3 minutes of this video when you went through the creative process of mixing that piano is the best 3 minutes of your UA-cam I've ever watched. More of this please!
Shame you dont have the mics anymore. I tried something like this, with the MB800 mic, only with hardware in the analog chain, when recording. I tried them on the tube channels of my A&H GS3000 and I was quite happy with the results. Those mics need a bit of warming up and I got it done with an anolog EQ and with tubes it worked even better, they just need a little more harmonic content. I really should try some other hardware and software, sometime soon. I like experimenting with things like this.
The cheap ones feel tighter. Must be the lack of tube. Also I feel like the "cheap" high end kind of matches the tone of the piano. Unless I needed the great low end of the U47s, I think I would pick the cheap ones hahaha. Really interesting.
Give us more content on creative decisions like you did at the end of the video
this this this
Great video! But I really want a "VOCAL" version of this. I think 90% of people who use cheap mics is to record vocals. That would be very interesting!
can't be done. especially not in a thick drake, parrtynextdoor, gunna, or pop type of mix... you might be close but you gonna sound like Wake not drake.
@@jelissasoto3611 i reached and surpassed drake with a good room vibe and a bit of mixing all that with a bm800
@@realhamzabarami Lmao. Good one.
@@jelissasoto3611 da faq. get creative m8
Hey man, I've watched many of your videos now. This one by far is my favorite. I really appreciated you taking the time to show how you would use the sound to its natural advantage at the end. You should make more mixing videos like that. Always good content. Finally committed to subscribing
This was a great video. I liked the whole idea of running through the process of working with a recording to get a desirable result. (Especially when the starting recording was not optimal.) There are a lot of people that are working with the materials they have at hand -- focusing more on the process is beneficial for that kind of situation. (Okay, this comment is really badly worded...hope the point gets across...)
Thanks for this video, well done comparison. It was fun seeing you attempting to match the EQ to the expensive mic...I thought you did a great job.
Thanks a lot for your effort! I think the comb filter like difference could be the result of comparing not only two different microphones but actually two different microphone positions(!) which definitely cause some phase cancellations. But at the end of the day the most accurate eq match would be by recording a speaker playing a recorded (not randomly generated) pink noise from the exact same microphone resp. membrane position ... if that's possible at all .. and sync these recordings before eq matching. But most interesting would be a match by convolution. I'm pretty sure that would surprise some experts by failing blind comparison tests. Hehe
I'm a subscriber, but I don't watch your videos.
Im also somewhat guilty of that, i'm just not that much into audio gear specially atm due some things going on in my life/personal reasons but i am subbed if i see anything that catches my attention I watch.
@@dashtesla To some extent, probably everybody is. There lives an entire hive of channels in my inbox just for occasional giveaways :D
But I was being ironic in this case, because I consider this channel one of the very few actually helpful ones - and most of the time the content is quite entertaining even when I can't care less for the product in question.
I'm subscribed to almost 350 channels and I usually only watch 2 videos a day on youtube (except music)
Thanks, good video.
Video request: would love to see you making retro style drums with a "gated" reverb.
i.e. taking a retro Linn drum snare/kick sample and making it into a gated reverb one from scratch.
record pink noise and than try to match regards
Lovely! Now you need another Altec... and I need it as well :) great video!!!
If you really want to match the EQ to the most delicate detail, use iZotope's Ozone Match EQ, which doesn't have a limit on bands or detail. I do think the Pro-Q's Match EQ is really good, but it can't really be compared to Ozone's.
Thanks for the video! You need to chip some paint off your console rack modules so they look more like today's plug-ins.
;)
They're tooo well painted
I really love your videos and appreciate the quality that goes into them :3
If you made a collection of Pro-Q presets for the Zingyou BM-8000 to emulate industry standard mics, I would happily pay for it. I picked up 2 Zingyou BM-8000s after your first video about it. I use them as ambient mics for live recordings, it's great to have a set of large diaphragm condensers that I don't have to worry about the audience putting a drink over or an artist kicking over (or off the stage) in the dark. They certainly beat the capsules on a tascam portable for this particular purpose and actually cost less.
Those wobbly analog eqs would drive nuts. Good god I have OCD
The out to lunch box
In my humble experience with a good microphone for the right instrument you have basically just to level and each a little bit but with others it can sound right but you have to eq a lot .....
Love the pianist! Interesting video
your voice is so compressed it's making me anxious
Maybe you can record some pink noise with cheap and expensive mics and match de EQ to apply that curve to any other audio?
Obviously it won't be the same, but maybe you can get a "better" sound from a cheap mic using thar reference curve.
Nice vid thanks! Usually i only work with virtual piano’s “sample based”. The thing annoying me is so many different phase issue’s on different notes which need to be corrected note by note to have natural frequency response, timbre and proper stereo image. You cant really reproduce a excellent Mic by EQ’ing , but like you being creative, you can have a great sounding piano in your mix recorded by a cheaper Mic! Happy mixing and mastering. Cheers.
I would like a video that compares mics that are cheaper but claim to sound like something a U47 since most of us don't have a U47 to test. Like TechZone's Stellar X2 Vintage that's supposed to be based on the 47
Interesting; as with the previous session with el cheapo mike it's all about the timbre of the music. I think the U47 captures the tonal colours far more accurately. So, I suppose, when mixing, it's easy to subtract what's there than add what isn't.
If I take a u-47 and record some music and then record the same on a cheap microphone and then add a match eq, will it work or is there a better method?
That's a nice and realxing piano piece. Fit's the weather quite well, it has a sort of daydreaming feel to it. Could you make a video some day on "bit crushing" samples to create a vintage 8 bit sampler type of sound? I.e. What you typically would get out of a fairlight CMI or an amiga computer.
Oeksound Soothe will do more to de-cheap the recording from the crap mic than anything you've just tried
Very interesting. Originally, I thought this video was going to go in a different direction. I have heard that one reason cheap mics don’t sound that good is because of the following. I can’t look it up at the moment so don’t quote me on this but is something along these lines. The condenser part of these cheap mic designs is not compatible with the circuit design. This leads to a harsh sound. Something about how these designs were copied from the european makers. Websites like micparts and others as well as boutique mic manufacturers like Advanced Audio talk about this in more accurate detail and sell capsules that fix this issue, or even new circuits. Would be really cool to see you do a mic mod. Or, have one done for you and test it.
Cypress Hill recorded an entire album using a microphone with a malfunctioning membrane.
They had to be insane in de brain.
Insane in the membrane? Insane in the brain!
i mean this is the idea in the new modeling mics ... so yeah ... the reuse the eq curve you could also convert this into a Impulse response and yeah ...
Could you save that EQ preset and it "fix" this microphone on most sources or is it matched to specifically the piano?
Very nice comparison! I wonder what would happen with both recordings if you treated them with Gullfoss.
The instrument must sound good, the musician must play good and the room must sound good.
choose the correct type of microphone, place it correctly and probably you get a good recording, also with the cheapest mic.
yeah, but can you make a u47 sound like a Blue Snowball?
cool video. always appreciate the content. Keep up the great work!
Zum Vergleich dieser Mikros : bei vielen Aufnahmen sind die Ergebnisse sehr ähnlich....aber bei schwachen Signalen und schwachen Sängern tun sich Welten auf....da ist bei den hochwertigeren Mikros in schwachen Signalen mehr Druck und Substanz......teste es mal aus....eine gute Großmembran oder Kleikondensor hat ein druckvolleren sound auch noch drei vier Meter entfernt gegenüber den preiswerteren Geräten wobei es gut gibt......bei Mikros oder Boxen gibt es einen Grundsatz....ausprobieren und dann kaufen......wobei ein 47 er nehm ich auch gerne geschenkt...😉
Man, you're awesome! =) I was surprised to love your channel and your videos! =)) The most I like is your way of thinking! =)))
great work!
What's the Console?
Nice one, love your videos dude! Have you heard of the Slate Digital virtual microphone system? Be interesting to see you do video - test / snake oil on that.
Yes, I heard about it... its a weird thing...
Hello from Berlin and thanks for your nice Videos. Is it possible with the *white noise frequency response* of a microphone like the Telefunken u47, to make my mic sound similar, even when I dont own the Telefunken U47?
I really liked the mono piano idea. Why make every single thing big in the mix?
it sure has its own vibe :) mono would work in right context!
I actually like your mono full beatles version more than the pure U47 one
Heh, it kind of proves that great sounding music is not in the price of gear but mostly in the creativity and talent of the music production
Yo besides instrument use, Using a cheap mic for vocals is okay, if u know how to mix nd master, the need for a pricey high end mic starts to be unnecessary.
Hello what are you using for console and the modules .. ?
Question: I would like to see a video on understanding saturation and where best to use it. I mean, what it does and why we should use it. 😎
This might help in the meantime. iconcollective.com/audio-saturation/
I need your help please, can you advise me on how to make the voice recording sound good with that nw800 microphone. My phone's mic sounds better. Please help me I'm using Reaper.
What kind of console are you using? It’s very interesting !! Great video I like your approach to mixing.
It's a Neumann. Very rare because they didn't make them very long. I think he bought the components for this one bit by bit and built it. There was one on Reverb a couple years ago for $18K.
Alex Breyer Wow !! Very cool, thanks for the info Alex.
I thought the piano sounded nice here, but that's such a lovely instrument in this context. I'm guessing if you were doing something with more transients and more aggressive it might not give you as good of results. Let's learn some techniques for mixing vocals to get the lead up front and the backgrounds still sitting in the mix right and not too busy.
Listening on a $200 Bose bt speaker, and the cheap mike still sounds obviously duller, and also boomy from the 200Hz boost. (I think I liked it better dry.) Also: let's go full Beatles LOL!
thanks for inspiration.
What table oficina mixin Is That?
I get satisfying results with my music, but my vocals never quite "sit" along the other instruments. Like, they sound very good on their own, it never with all the rest. Will you ever do, or do you already have, a video on how to address this problem? Like making cheaply recorded vocals sound like they belong in a mix?
mvyper maybe look at the arrangement of the song first, you might do well to find a bit of frequency space for your vocal before worrying too much about processing, that’s going to make your life easier.
Cool video -
How do you hear clearly with your hair covering your ears?
"*technical term* or whatever witchcraft they use" lol
Fabfilter Eq match is awful. Try Izotope. I've experimented with this thoroughly. Fab just gets u roughly there, it struggles a lot with the low end. Izotope Match Eq was increible BUT it has latecy unfortunately. For some reason creating an Impulse response didn't do the trick which is very unusual.
Your awesome :D
It really feals like stereo vs mono... it i cleanly hear it on studio monitor's :P Echt heeeeeel duidelijk :P
Iam your subscribe and I've been watching all of your videos
just more hardware videos!
the best way to make a cheap mc sounds great is by using a good mic pre like ... V76 ... V72 V476 ... maybee 1073? never underestimate the colouration of a high gain mic pre. if you dont have the money just put a "cheap" signal transformer between mic and mic pre it can make a big difference.(or add to the mic)
these ones where all connected to Neumann V467's
What console are you using ?
Neumann N20
White Sea Studio thanks for the reply🤙🏻
What free software would you recommend for people trying to make their mic recordings sound better? Unless you did that video already. Then, umm... hi.
Is he dutch?
"click the subscribe button" , Guess what, i have never done that before if someone asks for it.
10:44 you are wise beyond your years
Subbed
Your accent sounds like a Dutch accent (Ik ben een fake Nederlander)!
This is a weird dude lol but I rock with him
would be interesting to see what you could get out of a still budget, but good budget microphone, like a RØDE nt1-a.
I’ve made my computer microphone sound good. Sure you can
its bullshit that you compare a valve with that cheap condenser a valve produces a way denser sound due to the valves .... compare a U87 or TLM103 with it....that would be fair
subscribed lol
Not perfect but yeah, very good.
haha jij bent sws nederlands
Sorry mate. I’m one of those that watches and just realised I’m not subbed. Fixed now. And thank you.
Maybe Zingyou should do the matching EQ trick using pink noise with a few famous mics and release the Pro-Q settings (or even release their own plugin with those EQ settings), lol :)
create a "anti cheap" Plug in :) Great session - nice video!
It's called Soothe and it already exists
No its called Intensity (by ZynaptiQ) and it also exists. It has been tested by this guy, but that time he really didn't understand the plugin and made a peculiar test.
"I will try to let it shine in a way that is shines the best, I'm not trying to make it something it doesn't want to be."
Love it!
You could also modify the cheap chinise mic using some of the pimped alice PCBs on E-Bay, and a TSB2555B Jli capsule. Result it's really impressive!
Doesn't slate sell a cheap mic with a u47 EQ match ?
Well, $500 cheap compared to his $30 cheap.
The coolest thing about this video isnt even the experiment with cheap versus expensive microphone.
The coolest thing is your immense knowledge and explanations of the tools you use.
Thank you! I have learned more in this video that I never even considered about musicality in microphone construction than any of the books or articles I've read.
Excellent!
Guys, subscribe to this guy. You might not always agree with him, nor like every video. But he still makes high quality content, cares about his subscribers and has so many interesting videos. I'm a long-time subscriber and never regretted it. Let's get him to 100k, he deserves it!
Thank you sooo much!
So what you could do is make this a pre-set silver people who have the microphone then go online hey $10 in buy a preset that makes their $10 microphone sound very very good
I'd bet if you do a Match-EQ against a matched pair of microphones, you might still get those spaced peaks in the EQ, just because 2 capsules that are a few inches apart will indeed have some comb filtering between them, and that could fool the Match-EQ function.
So if you match it with a u-47 at a studio then create a preset for it then you have that EQ you can use
That cheaply recorded piano sounds like something that should belong in a nostalgic lo fi track. And I'm saying it in the best possible way I can.
mvyper
Yeah, good point, and with lots of flutter, crackle and noise. The art of trash, a stylistic device. Hehe
@@alexhormann8931 yeah, that's why there are lots of plugins out there for emulating tapes and vinyls.
Would love to get your opinion on UAD hardware and plugins!
wow the u47 is... its wider and fuller. great suggestion at the end of using what you have, to work along with it - instead of working against it/ trying to "fix" it.
Can you make a cheap microphone sound good? Yeah you can. There are quite a few cheap and good sounding microphones out already. Comparing $22 microphones to U47s is kind of pointless though. A U47 sounds like it sounds without any EQ. You should never have to EQ it. Ever. If it's not working in a particular context you'll need to swap it out for another microphone. Working with old school Neumanns is quite easy. The most difficult thing is the placement and then gain staging. After that you're done. You should never have to process them. Have a look at how Al Schmidt works. The guy never uses EQ for anything. It's usually a "move the mic" or "swap it for another" kind of troubleshooting process if something is not working. You won't be able to do that with cheap mics. I'd rather with work expensive mics for that reason alone. They sound great and you should never have to process them. (creative effects notwithstanding)
I feel like a routine studio maintenance video would be really successful. More home studios need to see stuff like that. "Essential Studio Maintenance Practices" or something could be a title.
Oh and of course mastering an indie pop track ;)
What I like about you that you don't mix by your ears only.. You mix by your heart too.. Greeting from Australia..
That piano work, reminds me "The Dark Side of the Moon"; nice vibe.
Hi
Couldn't you record a part with noise with both mics and create a profile eq with match that you use for the cheaper mics? So in the future you use that as a profile for that mic? Of course it will miss character but it would be close I think
Wytse, this was foremost one of the best videos in my opinion. Thanks a lot for taking your time and sweat for such good quality! I'm sure and hope you reach far with this, your passion.
Nice technique. Congrats! Let me know the name of this song. I love the piano sound a lot.
I just came across the video just now. I want to let you know that I watch basically all of your videos, but the last 3 minutes of this video when you went through the creative process of mixing that piano is the best 3 minutes of your UA-cam I've ever watched. More of this please!
Should do this test on vocal. I can't fix cheap mic sound on vocal... so im interested to see what u can do!
To do another version of the A/B comparison you might pan one left, and the comparison right. Just a thought.
Shame you dont have the mics anymore. I tried something like this, with the MB800 mic, only with hardware in the analog chain, when recording. I tried them on the tube channels of my A&H GS3000 and I was quite happy with the results. Those mics need a bit of warming up and I got it done with an anolog EQ and with tubes it worked even better, they just need a little more harmonic content. I really should try some other hardware and software, sometime soon. I like experimenting with things like this.
The cheap ones feel tighter. Must be the lack of tube. Also I feel like the "cheap" high end kind of matches the tone of the piano. Unless I needed the great low end of the U47s, I think I would pick the cheap ones hahaha. Really interesting.
faster transient response for cheap one cuz its built in 2018 vs 1930's
Great job on the EQ match, Wight Seeeeee!