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In praise of tiny mics and Gen Z media (E61)

The Adam Ragusea Podcast

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How to Use a Microphone to Record Vocal Audio

This is the sure SM7B a stone cold classic of the radio pod genre Also used in music all the time Michael Jackson's thriller famously cut with an SM7 on the vocals. The SM7 design has changed barely at all since it was released in 1973 for the first time because they got it right from the start. How you use it matters way more than how big it is the number one factor Determining the quality of a vocal audio recording is not which kind of mic you're using But how close you're getting it to the face of the person whose voice you're trying to record.

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