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Are studio mics dead?
Check Chris Liepke’s video out below. Are we finally at the stage where our iPhones or iPads are all we need for vocal recordings?
We’ve been for years having the debate over the subject “can you make pro music recordings with only an iPhone or iPad”, and we can now start debating “can we make pro vocal recordings using only our iPhones or iPads?” as well.
So, let the clash begin but remember, to each their own😎.
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I'll take a better vocalist over a better mic any day. Same as any musical equipment - talent beats money.
Sure, if the quality is good enough for you
Totally agree. If shit goes in, most likely shit comes out. But given you do have at least a decent vocalist the question still stands.
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It is subjective indeed, but is there some kind of ”floor”, what is good enough and is it even measureable?
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Totally agreed on vocalist (and the song!) over recording. In this age, so long as you can record with good fidelity - surely more dependent on an acceptable room acoustic, as in avoiding problems, than equipment - then the final vocal sound can be achieved with plugins.
I’m happy to keepsake everyone’s unused mics until you realise that you do need it.
Not really. It's very subjective, depends on music style, even on the singer's voice. Always worth a try for sure!
The Garage Band guy did a comparison on YT. Built-ins on Pro sounded ok but not as good as his Rode. My own comparisons point in the same direction.
It could be possible soon to record a singer or speaker in a non-ideal location and by using generative A.I. recreate the voice with all of its subtleties and make it sound like it was recorded using the best possible recording equipment under ideal studio conditions (if that's what you were aiming for). We're almost there now.
I think there will always be a need for studio mics. Even if it’s just because the design and construction is more dependable than a phone. There’s also the expectation of consistency. Singers have favourite mics for a reason, some suit their voice better. While modelling might eradicate some of that, there’s the fact that the interaction with a mic can be a factor in a singers performance. Even if it’s all in their head, you want the singer to be at their most comfortable.
Like a lot in recording, there’s the lofi/hifi thing.
I pretty much use my iPhone all the time. Even if I then use Moises to strip background noise.most of the time the music I make lends itself to grittiness.
But there’s a reason I’m booking a studio to record vocals for a project I’m working on. The number 1 is it saves a lot of work at the back end.
i use Zoom Q4n for mic duties.
it's more than sufficient for youtube videos where i'm talking (certainly way better than built-in).
and it's sufficient for something that i dare to call singing – however, that's EBM/aggrotech/industrial where voice is distinctly processed.
The guy in the video repeatedly mentioned that he is doing this for practice. There isn’t really a suggestion that studio-quality mics no longer serve a purpose.
Literally phoning it in.
Would it be good enough for vocoded vocals ?
Ha! Good one.
I can't wait to try mic'ing my guitar amp with a a couple of iPhones taped to the speaker cab.
What is he using for a mic in this video? It’s not an iphone.
Same here, my sister gifted me a zoom q4n-4k. Nice compact vid/mic. When putting the Brusfri plugin on the audio to reduce the little room noise I get some good results.
Sure, you can record vocals with Ipads/Iphones. It depends what you want as result. I mean it could be totaly fine.
If you like to record e.g. a stradivari violin with its full dynamic range and all subtle frequencies and details, you will never ever achieve that with an iphone/ipad microphone.
It might be approaching the photography maxim of "The best camera is the one you have with you." I heard a cinematographer say that about an iPhone camera years ago. Why wouldn't the microphone catch up? These are expensive devices.
Thing is, it’s not just about expense, it’s about physics, as far as I understand it. A large diaphragm condenser mic will physically capture more nuance and dynamic range than a tiny mic in a phone or iPad. I don’t think software or algorithms can compensate fully for that.
That's a very good point!
Regarding microphones catching up, I think that engineers have learned a bit over the years while building smart home devices with microphone arrays, or action cams like the GoPro series, using clever DSP to filter out environmental and wind noise and to get directional information, all from miniature microphones.
Don't get fooled by this stuff -- it might be able to trick you on a surface level, but you KNOW once you zoom in and start to get surgical with EQ and compression.