Choosing & Using Microphone Polar Patterns
Choose a mic with the optimum polar pattern for the job, and you’re halfway to capturing a great recording.
Choose a mic with the optimum polar pattern for the job, and you’re halfway to capturing a great recording.
Classic equipment doesn’t have to be old and unreliable. Many famous studio microphones are still current products...
Paul White tests a new capacitor mic from Shure which offers a choice of three polar patterns.
Drum kit miking is a black art as far as many project studio owners are concerned. Yet, as Benedict Grant explains in the first of this two‑part series, there's no need to let the kit beat you...
A new studio microphone from Shure is always well worth investigating. Hugh Robjohns checks out the KSM32 cardioid mic.
If you thought earbuds were a compromise, think again...
The MV88 is entering a increasingly crowded market, so does it have what is needed to win it a good slice of the action?
Back in the 1950s, one of Shure’s most popular mics was the Model 51 Sonodyne, which had a distinctive design fashioned to...
Our engineer records a rock trio while trying also to offer sufficient options to create a drum sample library!
A versatile, entry-level large-diaphragm condenser mic with a particularly well balanced performance.