Best Microphones for under $1000

So you just started looking for a new Mic. Saved up about a grand for this purchase and now you have to make a huge choice. Heres some help on that with a short list of 5 of the best mics for under $1000.

5- Sure SM57 ($100)

This is a microphone that you cant beat for the price and the versatility.

From live to th

e studio to pretty much anything you cant go wrong with having a few of them lying around.

4-Sennheiser SM7b ($350)

This is an excellent vocal microphone. Its used in radio,

studio, film ADR, and lets not forget that this microphone recorded the album Thriller.

3-Blue

Bottle($300)

This is the perfect entry level vocal

and guitar mic. Its super clean and has great class A circuitry. This is a condenser mic and it has a small frequency boost at 200 Hz and also at 5 khz.

2-Neumann TLM 103 ($700)

At $600 used or $1300 new it's a great value, just get one (or more) and use them. Don't be influenced by poor judges of microphones who live in the p

ast... this is THE greatest achievement and best built mic to come out at this

price point until the competitors started trying to match it.

1-AkG c 414 ($1000)

It has five switchable polar patterns -- omnidirectional, wide cardioid, cardioid, hypercardioid, and figure 8. The mic has three switchable bass cut filters and three pre-attenuation pads. The control you get over the sound is unmatched today.

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Blue Baby Bottle

Hey guys,

First off, if you have 300 spare dollars lying around for a mic and your a project studio looking for a good mic then pick this puppy up. I purchased this mic to handle my own recordings and i have not found anything minus putting it on drums that it wont work for. Now This is a condenser mic and it has a small frequency boost at 200 Hz and also at 5 khz. For a single focus on this mic i feel it really shines on Vox and Guitars. From acoustic guitars to amp cabs it will sound great!

Now on to some problems. First off i really hate how blue pitches this to mic drums, and other large instruments when the mic has such an awkward shape and how it mounts. Out of the box, without a diffrent mount i feel it would be a pain to mic anything but a guitar cab or vocals. Next, i really dont know if its just my mic but the XLR jack will not clip to all XLR cables only 2 out of the 5-6 i have will actually work. But other than that this is an amazing microphone and it really kicks ass!

Following are also links to the Tech Specs and a Small Demo Video.

I really feel within the 1000$ mic range the baby bottle comes in first!

See you guys next week!

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Focusrite's new ISA428 MkII

First off, its good to see a nice clean rack mountable 4 channel preamp.

the back has your standard 1/4" and XLR ins and outs for each channel. This unit also features 4 instrument inputs right on the front of the unit. Now i know a lot of people here are wondering about protools and its hellish means of no compatibility with most any other product.

Well, the A-D converter accepts four line inputs in addition to the signals passing through the main channels of the ISA428 MkII, creating eight high-quality digital streams with a superb 122dB dynamic range. Thanks to its convenient 25-pin D-Type connector, the A-D converter option integrates seamlessly with most digital workstations, including Pro Tools HD. With this said you wont get the Le or M-powered support you'd like but then again i don't think a $1,700 preamp will be in a project studio.

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