A collection of me testing different microphones.
Leave a comment with the top 3 takes, and I'l send you the answers in Freesound DMs :)
Feel free to also comment the worst-takes, and general thought and impressions ^^
I know this is unscientific. I have recorded 5min sessions with each mic which I'l probably upload.
This is too short to be conclusive in any shape or form, but it may give general directions and a little idea is better than none, also might be a fun exercise :)
Mics used (out of order):
Apple Mac Book Air internal mic
AKG - C414 Cardioid mode
AKG - C414 Omni mode
AKG - C535
AKG - D310
Beyerdynamic - TG150d
DJI - Action 3 (front facing mic)
EV - RE20
EV - PL80c
EV - FDM 635A
Neumann - KM184
Neumann - U67 (Vintage)
Neumann - U87 (Vintage generation)
Neumann - U87 (Newer generation)
Koss - KSC75
Rode - NT5
Rode - NT5 (in ghetto sound booth)
Royer - R121
Superlux - ECM 999
SE - SE1A
Sennheiser - 840
Sennheiser - E609
Sennheiser - E604
Sennheiser - MD421
Sennheiser - BlackFire 811
Shure - SM58
Shure - SM57
Shure - Beta 52
Shure - Beta 58
Shure - Prologue
Soundman - OKM 1
T-Bone - MB-45
TE - Po33
Warm Audio WA47JR
Zoom - H5
Zoom - H2n (mono MS)
Recordings may vary in date and location.
I generally, tired to do it in a quiet environment, at about 8cm away from the microphone.
Most of the recordings are from April 2025, 3-4 may be off in date.
The majority was recorded on a Tascam FR-AV2
PS : 36 is missing... It's my favourite number too lol
Type
Wave (.wav)
Duration
8:00.350
File size
44.0 MB
Sample rate
48000.0 Hz
Bit depth
16 bit
Channels
Mono
Comments
4 months, 2 weeks ago
#7:10 "picked peckers" :¬)
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Hey Sadiquecat !
Here is my opinion for voice (it would probably be different for instruments or field recording, of course !) :
My favourite mics are 33, 22, 14, and 5 isn’t so far.
And mic 8 is really ugly !!! :D
Very curious to know the result !
