Originally Posted by Trem ➡️

So I was actually thinking about this ”realism” thing before I read your post

I listened back to a take I made with the M49V some weeks ago.

And my takeaway was that sounded too real. It sounded like a person.

I could here the voice of the person a lot.

But that’s not what I want to hear. I want to primarily hear music, not primarily a human being that happens to be singing.

It was too detailed, too realistic, too much of every little movement of the voice. Including non-musical timbre if that makes sense. Not just breaths and lip smack or that, but even within a wovel as it is being sung…

Does that make sense?

I’ve been thinking lately that I might be better off with a 1-2-K Sontronics Ribbon mic than my 7-8K M49V.

I want a musical vintage sound. Perhaps the M49V was the wrong choice. I just went for the buy once cry once philosophy, and I didn’t want the hassle of buying an old mic, so Neumann’s current flagship reissue with the V indicating Vintage seemed like the best choice.

But again, it’s so much detail. I don’t know if it requires a certain way of singing to sound more like melody and less like a person talking (sort of).

Or if the solution is some kind of destructive processing that removes detail and presence? Attenuates the realism?

I was also thinking about a Wunder or a Flea but maybe they’re all like that?