MIC 1 or MIC 2 ?

In that 'exact' setup I prefer mic 2 (but I'm listening on a laptop)..... but change the size of the room, the facing direction of the talent, the distance of the mic from the voice and the answer might be different. No one mic can do it all, what might suit one situation may not suit another.
Just like a lens of a camera would you ask what is the best focal length, what is the best light level etc. a lot of stuff is of an artistic point of view.
 
Here we go again. deleuze3 comes through here regularly with these silly questions. Here are some general rules you may find instructive....
#1 - Learn to listen for yourself and judge if something is as good as it could be under YOUR particular circumstances for each shot. Because....
#2 - The answer to these questions is only good for EXACTLY that setup. You will NEVER encounter that EXACT combination when you go out for real production. So....
#3 - Our preference for some particular combination right now will have no practical benefit when you go out recording for yourself.

Frankly, you get these same kinds of responses every time you do this. We don't understand why you keep doing this?
 
well, its hard for me to evaluate that setup.
if the combination never gets the same results in real production, its even harder.
 
I have to admit that I would never, ever ask such a question on an internet forum. Part of the art of sound is training your ears. Listening to finished products produced by professionals who know what they are doing, then trying to replicate them, and training your ears. You have no idea if your listeners are using a macbook with puny speakers and no bass, or headphones of one quality or another, or listening in a huge studio with loud full range speakers. The critical thing is how you perceive the two recordings. You ask which are better? Use your ears. If We say A or B, you have no idea what we are hearing. Just compare your recordings with something similar, and you decide! You put on your headphones, and select the most appropriate for each job. If any of us walked into your space, we'd spend a small moment listening, then look at the tools available, and pick the right one!

Never ask internet forums for opinions on things they cannot possibly know? If it helps - I like number 2 compared to 1 because it sounds warmer.
 
I agree with Paul mic 2 sounds better but I would be able to adjust no 1 in post to make it acceptable if that was all I was given.

Like others have said these tests are pretty pointless and looking at the earbuds you are monitoring on in vision it is no wonder that you keep posting pointless you tube videos if that is what you are listening on.

Get some decent headphones such as the Sony 7506 or the Sennheiser HMD 25 and listen to what youare doing and start to form your own judgements regarding what is best???

Anyway what is best may not be a strict A versus B decision as in practical terms you have to make decisions based on the kit you have to hand rather than a comparison.

We did some tests about 25 years ago when all the members of our sound dept brought their Hi-Fi speakers into work , each one was listened to in turn and whilst we could all tell differences between each one we could not tell anything after listening to a single pair after about 20 mins as the human brain has no memory for sound and it is only an A/B comparison that shows up the difference.

Most of the classic rock and vocal tracks were recorded on a few mics such as the C12, U87, U47, SM58 and SM57 but can you tell which one was which and do we really care that most engineers put around +18db of 10khz and compressed them to oblivion???

Most classic movies were recorded with an MKH 805 or 816 but can we tell and some were even ECM50's with a micron VHF radio mic?
 
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