What kind of mic do you use?

I have a dixon unidirectional mic of some sort.. to lazy to go look at the model number or whatever lol... cost was about $50.....

I'm not exactly a musician per-say, but I did invest in a good studio quality USB computer mic for $99. The "Snowball" by Blue is what I use and I have been pleased with it.

a easy computer mic,

For my birthday I recieved a second hand Behringer Ultravoice XM8500

Pff Sennheiser something

i use built in mic on my mac lol

yeah. the built in mic on my mac picks up my voice incredibly

have you done the knock knock jokes on your mac ?

I'm highly disadvantaged mic-wise. I have a webcam . You can't play anything louder than a whisper or it will fart on you.
I also have a built in mic on my mom's laptop but it's really muddy.
I think I'll give up trying to record anything until I have decent gear. :

If that's your equipment, you should

no one has said sm57 yet?....NO ONE?!

My mic. got it for $99

http://www.bluemic.com/products/snowball

Mikey Erasmus wrote:

no one has said sm57 yet?....NO ONE?!

I was actually waiting for more of those too

Our guitarplayer has a bunch of those around

i know! i have SEVERAL of those haha

The shop I got my mic from... the guy try to sell me an sm57.... but you know, he put an $80 markup on it so i didn't want to waste my money.

i have tons of mics, though no sm57's, I have a few condensers, a couple sm57 ripp offs, some cheap ones we use for vocals got em for like 10 bucks apeice at mars music going out o business... they work great for live.

had some sm57s but they were the FLA bassists so when she left.. no more.

I have an AKG D3700 $330AUD Dymanic mic

When I was doing vocals I was using an Audix (don't remember the model number) drummer's also a sound engineer and has a bunch of Audix, Shure, sennheiser and a few more high dollar condenser mics.

i bought a random guitar hero usb mic to record guitar... not that bad for like $8

I have an Oktava MK-105. Cost was around $600. I also have a V-Tech SM58 knockoff, picks up vocal range really well, but it's noisy.

I've been recently eyeing the new version of the Shure Super 55. I'd really like to get my hands on one of those babies!

Chou wrote:

I have an Oktava MK-105. Cost was around $600. I also have a V-Tech SM58 knockoff, picks up vocal range really well, but it's noisy.

I've been recently eyeing the new version of the Shure Super 55. I'd really like to get my hands on one of those babies!

If I'm not mistaken the overheads my drummer uses for drum tracking are older Ovtava condenser mics.

Probably... The Oktava MK-012 has been at the top of the overhead mic list for many years. I used to have one, but I had more need for a large diaphragm, so I upgraded.

I think, for recording, I'm going to stick with Oktava. They have such great sound for really decent prices. I've even recorded through a few classic Neumans that I just wasn't happy with. But the 105 keeps impressing me

I have a Shure sm58 now , had it for the past few months. Way better than the mic I had when I started this thread lol.

I bought a Philips mic at Wal-Mart for 10 dollars!! YAYY!!!

two mics

condensor which is so old I cannot think of the name and a super cardioid EV PL80a