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Here’s another microphone shootout. The mics tested here, in order of price:
1. Audio-Technica AT2005 (same as the ATR2100) ($50)
2. Heil PR40 ($325)
3. Electro-Voice RE20 ($450)
4. Telefunken M82 ($499)
5. Sennheiser MKH-416 ($999)
6. Neumann TLM67 ($2400)
It’s always fun to do microphone tests and let you pick the one you like best. After you listen, rate them according to your preference with “1” being your favorite.
The test is not only non-scientific, it is not even done very well. For starters, there is room noise, just like most podcasters have. Great care has not been taken to perfectly balance the levels. (I’m not even sure how to do that with voice.) The levels were normalized in Adobe Audition, but again, no processing was applied. It would be best if all mics were set side-by-side with the same passage being recorded at the same time into a multi-track recorder, but I don’t have my studio set up for multi-track, so each read is unique.