[Rwp] New hardware to use with Reaper: is it just me?

[Christopher-Mark Gilland]

I agree with you Chris.  Unfortunately, right now, I needed something fairly 
quick, and within my budget it was all I could do.  I do agree with what 
you're saying for what it's worth though.

Chris.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Belle via RWP" <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2015 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Rwp] New hardware to use with Reaper: is it just me?


> Most of these USB mics in that price range are not great quality.
>
> Lots of reasons I'd rather use a standard mic on my board or interface 
> pres,
> like eq, noise, having to juggle different interfaces, since anything like 
> this will be the sole interface,
> and probably limit you to class compliant standards, not that that's 
> necessarily
> the worst thing in the world,
> but I think when you get around the 100 dollar mark, there are so many 
> good working man microphones that are available.
>
> If you just must use a USB adapter, get a USB adapter that will allow you 
> to use any mic with it,
> that way you can swap out mics if you need to, not be limited to a bad 
> sounding mic.
>
> if you have too much boom
> try using a low shelf or high pass eq filter on it, and cut some of the 
> mud,
> I had a student who had that snowball,
> not in USB form but I think she had the standard version of it,
> and it was indeed a boomy muddy mic, my favorite blue mic in the 100 
> dollar range is the encore 100
> which is a sweet sounding mic, with lots of sweet high end, and not too 
> much boom,
> better yet, if you must go portable get an entry level interface,
> there are lots of them at the 100 dollar price range with reasonable mic 
> pres.
> You'll be better off going forward as you start buying microphones in a 
> standard format for different purposes.
>
>
>
> On 4/6/2015 3:32 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland via RWP wrote:
>> So, here's the deal.  I have a studio grade Blue Bluebird microphone that 
>> I bought a while back from Sweetwater which I use for tracking vocals 
>> when I record.  It sounds absolutely amazing.  I needed another 
>> microphone which I could use on a different system more not for singing 
>> but more just for doing voice podcasts, or for things like Skype, 
>> Teamtalk, etc.  I can't very easily use that same mike I already have, 
>> the Bluebird, as a lot of times I want to be sitting down at my 
>> production machine.  The issue is, the mike stand that I'm using for my 
>> Bluebird is a floor stand which I have raised about 5 feet in the air, so 
>> I can stand at it comfortably.  What I needed was just a little desktop 
>> mike.  So, I found the Blue Snowball.  It retails for about $60 in the 
>> US.  It's a self powered USB mike.  No prees needed.  It just works. 
>> Anyway, I was wonderring if anyone either has used one a these babies or 
>> has at least heard one being used.  I'm asking as I don't know if this is 
>> normal, but in Reaper, Sonar, SoundForge, ProTools, you name it, I'm 
>> finding that there really isn't much high end to this mike. By high end, 
>> I don't mean high end quality.  I'm speaking of high end frequency.  It 
>> doesn't sound at all muddy, just very very boomy/basy.  If I set the 
>> padding switch to the low padding or high padding positions, it sounds 
>> kind of like someone with no compression raising the gain who is standing 
>> across the room from a mike with the gain hardly turned up. Best way I 
>> can describe it is, it sounds like a sort of shorted out mike cable.  It 
>> sounds great though with the padding off completely, aside that it's 
>> again, just really got no high end that I can really hear.  It's very 
>> clear, just a little more boomy than I expected.  I heard someone use one 
>> of these things before buying it.  I want to say it was Michael shoot... 
>> what's his last name, I don't remember.  He does the How to Be Blind 
>> podcast.  Anyway, don't quote me on this, but I'm 98% sure that was what 
>> he was using on the recording I heard him do.  Mike Melarcy!  There!  I 
>> knew I would think of it.  It was on the tip a my tongue!  LOL!  Anyway, 
>> I dono. It's possible that he did what I'm gonna have to do, and e queued 
>> the thing.  That's no issue if I do.  I'm just wonderring if this mike is 
>> notorious for this, or if you all know.
>> Chris.
>>
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