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Greetings, SOTW music producers! This is a question to our lovely community's studio engineers, home studio producers, and all-around gear nuts. It's far from the first time this question has been asked, and it will certainly not be the last. But I'm curious what your very favorite microphone is, at the moment, for recording yourself (or your trusted buddy) playing the saxophone. This is assuming you have your interface/preamp/DAW/room situation pretty well sorted out, we're talking strictly mic versus mic here: all other things being equal, what's your mic of choice for saxophone tracking?
My workhorse for the last few years has been a trusty Japanese-crafted Audio Technica AT-4033 LDC. A very affordable mic for the quality and it's given me nothing but good results. I am, however, upgrading to some fancier gear soon since I'm doing a lot more remote tracking and composing/producing work. The next likely two microphone candidates are an AKG c414 B-ULS and an AEA R-84, but I am always, always curious what other saxophonist-producers out there are using and loving: there are various Neumanns out there now that are actually relatively affordable, and I've been curious about various Micotech Gefell condensers ever since I recorded on one at a great studio in Philly. If money were no object I would of course snatch up all the u87/67/47 magic I could. But money is, it turns out, an object.
Whaddaya think?
My workhorse for the last few years has been a trusty Japanese-crafted Audio Technica AT-4033 LDC. A very affordable mic for the quality and it's given me nothing but good results. I am, however, upgrading to some fancier gear soon since I'm doing a lot more remote tracking and composing/producing work. The next likely two microphone candidates are an AKG c414 B-ULS and an AEA R-84, but I am always, always curious what other saxophonist-producers out there are using and loving: there are various Neumanns out there now that are actually relatively affordable, and I've been curious about various Micotech Gefell condensers ever since I recorded on one at a great studio in Philly. If money were no object I would of course snatch up all the u87/67/47 magic I could. But money is, it turns out, an object.
Whaddaya think?