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Originally Posted by woodman
thanx, Ben ... i'm curious as to your reasoning. is it because condensers tend to have boomy characteristics, or other factors?
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No, it's just because most condensers under the $700 range just don't really seem to do anything more than the dynamics, and often seem preoccupied with high-end articulation at the expense of a good, solid fundamental tone.
I also just tend to like dynamic mics on many sources. There are many occasions where the extra articulation of a condenser reproduces things that you wouldn't normally distinguish from human speech in a natural environment. The extra mass of the moving-coil diaphragm slurs out the smallest of transient artifacts and, IMHO makes for a warmer sound overall.
I don't mean to make it sound like I prefer a lower-fi sound (which sometimes I do) as most quality dynamic mics will reproduce a great amount of detail. I also won't claim to always be able to tell the difference in a blind test. All I know is that I've got an SM7 and (about a million) RE20s at work, and my ear likes them on human voices over the 414s and the Beta 87Cs. I think the SM7 brings out more richness in my voice than any other mic we have - and I don't have that low a voice.
Honestly, this is a personal preference. I don't mean to make it sound like anything more than that - though one could argue that there's nothing beyond personal preferences in recording, and music overall.
If you find yourself in upstate NY, stop by and we'll play with all the mics in our locker. The other engineer would be down too.
