Microphone for guitar recording

[MuLdEr]

I know the best microphone is condenser microphone (supplied by +48V). but it's too expensive to me :-( (MC 265 TOSNIL costs 500 $)

The question is do I have any alternative like small condenser microphone (5V-15V)? Will it be good for electric guitar recording?? Does it have enough parametres like 31mV/Pa, bandpass 20-20kHz etc.

Can You give me the best way for elect. guitar recording???

Regards

MuLdEr

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

I know the best microphone is condenser microphone (supplied by +48V). but it's too expensive to me :-( (MC 265 TOSNIL costs 500 $)

The question is do I have any alternative like small condenser microphone (5V-15V)? Will it be good for electric guitar recording?? Does it have enough parametres like 31mV/Pa, bandpass 20-20kHz etc.

Can You give me the best way for elect. guitar recording???

I would advise you to try what microphones you can, borrow various ones, use your vocal mikes - see how you get on. I certainly wouldn't dash out and spend $500 dollars on a condenser mike which might not even sound any better (and could quite easily sound worse). A lot of this sort of thing is down to personal preference - if you want the most accurate sound from your guitar, you would DI the guitar - but, presumably, you want the sound to be coloured by your amplifier and speaker.

So, try what you can, experiment, and try and find a sound you personally like.

When I did PA for a local band, we always used Shure Unidynes to mike everything up - I can't say I ever had any problems with the quality of the sound.

 

[MuLdEr]

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OK. So I found one, running at 15V and works well. But I ain't satisfied with colour of sound at all.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

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OK. So I found one, running at 15V and works well. But I ain't satisfied with colour of sound at all.

Find a different one then :lol: