Reflective Journal 20

I spent majority of my time this week recording for other people while at the same time taking note of what I wanted in my recordings. I took the opportunity to hear the different microphones used and what effect it had on what was recorded. From what I saw the SM57 was pretty popular when it came to recording amps, most particularly to the electric guitar amps like the Marshall amp. Though once saw it used for the cajon. Other condenser microphones which were mostly used for vocals were the AKG Perception 420, Sennheiser MD 421-II, SM58. For the drums would be the AT 4021. I didn't get to experiment with these different microphones since it wasn't my session but at least I was able to take note of what my most likely options were. From what I heard all of them sounded pretty decent in recording but features like ' bright' , 'warm' , 'vinyl' all varied on what kind of equipment used so it gave me a general idea of what I could use for my recording.

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