robotsound
Well-known member
I suspect that you won't be able to get the mics close enough together to not have differences arise due to them being in different positions.
A bright mic can be made a little duller by going a bit off axis. Your test will necessarily involve some of the mics being more off axis than others. Scientific testing of stuff like this is hard to get right. You have to either hope you can repeat the performance, or live with the differences.
On the flip side, you could probably get better results (for you) with the NT1 (assuming you still wanted to) by changing the mic position to take some of the high end down a bit.
One time when I helped a friend do a voice over mic shootout, I remember thinking that the EV RE20 sounded kind of like the Sennheiser 421 with a blanket over it. The RE20 sounded just lovely, but definitely darker than the 421. It's a little unorthodox, but frankly, if you only had the 421 and you wanted it to sound more like an RE20, you probably could just put varying amounts of cloth between the mic and the talent and get similar results
A bright mic can be made a little duller by going a bit off axis. Your test will necessarily involve some of the mics being more off axis than others. Scientific testing of stuff like this is hard to get right. You have to either hope you can repeat the performance, or live with the differences.
On the flip side, you could probably get better results (for you) with the NT1 (assuming you still wanted to) by changing the mic position to take some of the high end down a bit.
One time when I helped a friend do a voice over mic shootout, I remember thinking that the EV RE20 sounded kind of like the Sennheiser 421 with a blanket over it. The RE20 sounded just lovely, but definitely darker than the 421. It's a little unorthodox, but frankly, if you only had the 421 and you wanted it to sound more like an RE20, you probably could just put varying amounts of cloth between the mic and the talent and get similar results
