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Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: Plenum n Heather on March 13, 2016, 04:05:19 AM

Title: My new favourite mic for tracking guitars
Post by: Plenum n Heather on March 13, 2016, 04:05:19 AM
Been using the Worker Bee from Neat microphones on all my recordings for the past few weeks. Man, I am in love with this mic -- dead quiet, crazy dynamic range, and super responsive. Highly recommended.

Recorded this song last week and just finished the mix; all guitars and vocals were recorded using the Worker Bee.

https://soundcloud.com/fm-radio-nyc/all
Title: Re: My new favourite mic for tracking guitars
Post by: Andrew W on March 14, 2016, 06:00:54 AM
That's great intel. It's a very fair price too.
Title: Re: My new favourite mic for tracking guitars
Post by: Plenum n Heather on March 14, 2016, 06:38:26 PM
Yeah, the performance of price:dollar is insane.

I typically dislike capacitor mic's on electric guitar, but this mic just sounds stellar on it.
Title: Re: My new favourite mic for tracking guitars
Post by: Brow on March 15, 2016, 01:35:26 PM
That looks pretty cool.

If its half as good as the Blue stuff then it should be great!
Title: Re: My new favourite mic for tracking guitars
Post by: Plenum n Heather on March 16, 2016, 12:31:23 PM
I think it has a quieter noise floor than even the Blue mics ... it's essentially noiseless in terms of self-noise. The frequency response isn't has ruler-flat as most Blue mics -- it has a small dip in the midrange.
Title: Re: My new favourite mic for tracking guitars
Post by: Brow on March 17, 2016, 12:35:54 PM
Quote from: Plenum n Heather on March 16, 2016, 12:31:23 PM
I think it has a quieter noise floor than even the Blue mics ... it's essentially noiseless in terms of self-noise. The frequency response isn't has ruler-flat as most Blue mics -- it has a small dip in the midrange.

Cool. Might look into it more when I have my PC back and actually have a way to record!  :grin:
Title: Re: My new favourite mic for tracking guitars
Post by: mantrasky on March 20, 2016, 01:36:32 AM
I really like the Shure SM57 & sE X1R covers a lot from Clean to Distortion............
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c217/MantraSky/Mic%20Setup_zpsttjrwn7l.jpg) (http://s28.photobucket.com/user/MantraSky/media/Mic%20Setup_zpsttjrwn7l.jpg.html)
Title: Re: My new favourite mic for tracking guitars
Post by: Plenum n Heather on March 21, 2016, 09:59:44 PM
That is a great combo. I am not a fan of multi mic'ing electric guitar, but I certainly love hearing others' efforts. :)
Title: Re: My new favourite mic for tracking guitars
Post by: mantrasky on March 23, 2016, 09:51:09 PM
Recording Rock tones I find the "good old" SM57 hard to beat, and for clean tones the Ribbon sounds really nice. Then there are times using both "Dynamic & Ribbon" give more frequencies to choose from. Many pro studio's will use a number of mic's, guitarists like George Lynch or Steve Vai will have around 16 microphones with various speaker cabinets (I might not need that many in my home studio)   :smiley:
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c217/MantraSky/4-16%203_zpsnifyzyyb.jpg) (http://s28.photobucket.com/user/MantraSky/media/4-16%203_zpsnifyzyyb.jpg.html)