Is your space acoustically treated? The further you distance yourself from the mic, the more you are going to pick up unwanted sounds in your room. A dynamic mic at close distance is typically a better option in an untreated space.
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naive lava
smoky belfry
Is your space acoustically treated? The further you distance yourself from the...
i just need a more sensitive mic for distance
naive lava
Why?
naive lava
If you're absolutely sure you need more space between the mic and yourself, my recommendation woudl be to invest in room treatment first, if you have none. Otherwise the only thing you're going to do is make your recordings sound worse.
smoky belfry
i cant afford that
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naive lava
All the things that apply to a dynamic mic, apply to a condenser. You will still need to be close to it to get a decent sound, unless it's something like a shotgun microphone and you have a well-treated room.
smoky belfry
i dont do recordings
naive lava
recording or live, doesn't make a difference. Sound is sound.
smoky belfry
naive lava
And skip ahead to the part of the video where he demos it in a treated space vs an untreated space.
smoky belfry
this one sounds good at 4feet away
naive lava
And pay close attention to the difference.
naive lava
At 4 ft away he's testing it in a treated space.
naive lava
Your sound in an untreated space will be very different at 4 feet.
smoky belfry
im just using it for discord
my currreny one sounds too quiet anyways
at 4-6feet away
and if i get those other fifine dynamic ones
it wil be even worse
naive lava
Most microophones are not inteded to be used for vocals at 4+ ft.
smoky belfry
but in that vid it sounds good enouhg
naive lava
At he's in a TREATED SPACE.
smoky belfry
compared to other mics he revieweed lots of them sound quiet at 4 feet away too
except this one
unless youre the type who believes all mics have similar sensivity and range
then its pointless to talk to you about it
i need mic recomendations
not sound treatments
naive lava
And my recommendation is that you shouldn't buy a mic, you should go learn first.
Because you're just going to throw money away .
I'm really not meaning to be rude here, but you're getting hostile towards me for trying to correct a fundamental misunderstanding on your part.
You are free to do whatever you want, but anyone in here with some sense is going to tell you the same thing.
smoky belfry
I'm really not meaning to be rude here, but you're getting hostile towards me fo...
ive heard laptop mics that sound better then my curent setup
so you will say those laptop mics ive heard have room treaments and are close to 1feet away
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smoky belfry
@naive lava right?
naive lava
Nope. I'm done. You can believe whatever you want to believe and make whatever choices make you happy. I really don't care.
vivid flower
So, I get Ducky's frustration, but want to step in and say that he is very much telling you the real story here.
Arm's length is an incredibly long distance for any microphone regardless of technology.
Narrow microphones will block noise coming in the sides, but in an untreated space, will magnify anything bouncing off the wall behind you, which, of course, includes whatever bounced off the wall in front of you.
This is not a microphone solvable thing. It's a limitation of being in a rectangle house of mirrors in an acoustic sense.
Of course, in an anechoic chamber, or out in a field, none of this is a problem, which is why the rteated space argument is so important.
Arm's length will result in cheap sounding garbage with a $3800 condenser, a $2000 long shotgun microphone, or a $20 omnidirectional mic from the 1970's. All the same. All terrible.
One foot is "pretty far away" and will test the limits of anything. In a good space it will sound good. In a bare closet it will be really, really bad. This just like before. Condenser of dynamic. Electret or LDC. All the same idea. It's how it is.
From 6" away, You might notice an improvement with mics that have tighter patterns, like supercardioid dynamics. It is not that condenser supercardioids do not exist, but the patterns on them are not as "severe" and are sometimes poor at some frequencies.