Not bad for a $90 microphone...

Yep, and I had headphones to listen to the audio and the way it was positioned sounded great, although it looks stupid. I tried having it the other way around but it was blocking his face too much. I tried positioning it the way I have it and it sounded fine.
 
So this is basically a single take? It sounds like the mic was used to pick up the guitar also, yes?
With no pop filter it probably does sound better to sing past the diaphragm than into it and if this was the only mic then you also needed the position or the guitar would be lost.

THe sound is a bit thin but that would probably have more to do with the placement than the mic. You do realize that music videos are almost always recorded and then filmed with the performers syncing to the studio track?

Haven't seen that mic before, one more thing to check out...
 
Noiz2 said:
So this is basically a single take? It sounds like the mic was used to pick up the guitar also, yes?
With no pop filter it probably does sound better to sing past the diaphragm than into it and if this was the only mic then you also needed the position or the guitar would be lost.

THe sound is a bit thin but that would probably have more to do with the placement than the mic. You do realize that music videos are almost always recorded and then filmed with the performers syncing to the studio track?

Haven't seen that mic before, one more thing to check out...
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I tried positioning it so it would capture both vocals and guitar to the best of its abilities. And yes, I am aware of most performers syncing their lyrics into an already mastered track. My friend did not have one and so we did it all live with two cameras. I was quite pleased with the results.
 
Didn't mean to seem critical, I actually think it worked pretty well for that performer. You get a more distant "ambient" sound and your picking up a lot of the space. Being where it is your picking up a lot of neck and not so much body from the guitar so it isn't as lush as ones used to but he is also capoed up quite away so it's high anyway.

A little research on the mic, revealed that the chinese company that OEM's these also sells them to Nady, Shiney Box & Behringer with appropriate rebranding. It's basically a knock off of the TLM!03.
Most people seem to really like them with one catch, as with all the chinese mics (and like the Russian cheap mics before them (Oktava)) they have lousy QA, so you need to really check out the mic when you get it and have no qualms about exchanging it if there is a problem. I'm not sure if Oktava got better or that I only now buy them from The Sound Room (the do their own QA) but they seem more reliable these days.

Anyway it's not that huge a gamble for a very nice sounding mic considering I found them on Amazon for $55US.

The other thing I found interesting is that many folks reported liking these a lot better than studio projects microphones, so I'm guessing this is a different chinese maker.

There are also a lot of people moding these mics.


To relate back to this forum. The main film use would be as a Foley mic.
 
I picked one of those up a while back for like $40, it's pretty solid for the price, and came with a fairly decent shock mount. I've used it a few times on small choral recordings.

Stay far far away from Apex's shotgun though, I tried one of those out in-store and it was quite possibly the worst mic I've ever heard.
 
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