Turn a Lav into an SM7b? #recordingtech #microphone #studio #recordinggear

[memathews]

On a phone speaker it all sounds the same. But a fun experiment of someone watches/listens on a quality sound system.

[techmed-rainer]

Danke! Nice idea. You can hear the "chest-sound" of the lav mic.

[arande]

Definitely closer with the EQ matching but the acoustics sound different with each one which is the biggest difference once you EQ it

[Lyander]

Can only do so much to rebut physics it seems, but depending on what you're listening back with it may not end up proving too much of a bother. Great experiment!

[WDShorty]

I have decent headphones that are basically IEMs and I think mic position and size of the diaphragms are the biggest problems not the tone if the mic

[anas_voice_over]

This is beautiful, the difference was insane :)

[matthewg]

All sound very useable. No one will complain about your audio quality with any of these set ups realistically.

In our fun and interesting geeky mic world though, this is a cool experiment.

[billweaver]

In this short you skip over the actual process of manually matching EQ very quickly, but does the Fab Filter Pro EQ make this easier than typical stock EQs eg in Reaper? They produce very complex and fast changing graphical representations of the sound and without being able to superimpose one on top of the other there's a lot of guesswork involved, and I'm impressed that you've managed to simplify the differences down to 2 major zones. What are the best tools for this?

[peanutbutterjellyjam]

Great improvement on the Lav mic. There's a bit of a difference, but, I like it.

[MidnightMiik]

I have to do this kind of thing all the time. But instead of an SM7B, I’m trying to make a lav sound more like a boom mic or a U87. The other tricky one is transforming iPhone recordings.
Personally I’m not a fan of the SM7B. I get why people use them, I just don’t think they sound great. They don’t sound bad but they definitely don’t sound great. I know Michael Jackson used them but he would’ve sounded good on any mic.
As long as there aren’t horrible issues with a recording (clipping, excessive wind or plosives) I feel very confident I can make any microphone sound good. Maybe not great but at least good or good enough. Performance is the thing that’s harder to fix. A good performance recorded on a crappy mic will still sound like a good performance. A poor performance on the “best mic” (whatever that means (U87/U67/U47/C12 etc)) will still sound like a poor performance. You’ll just get to hear all the nuances of how bad it is.

[Schmuddel]

On the one hand, EQ matching is really cool and one of my favorite modern production techniques. On the other hand, this is a fun experiment but you're not replicating the sound of a large diaphragm dynamic mic.

[walteryhouse]

I wish you could compare two old mics against each other 😅 Neumann 105 and e945, something about it seems like they will sound a like but with their own characteristics condenser/dynamic

[narrator-timothymckean]

Yes! you can. But also, EQ is only one aspect of a mic that creates its unique sound.

[FriendlyAudio]

If you had them the same distance from each other and used more bands it'd definitely be closer

[mirzaangon]

on the lav i feel like i can hear your chest rumble even after the eq

[byebaibai]

we're getting into dangerous microphone territory

[brokenhero]

Tutorial?? This actually really improved the sound

[yinYangMountain]

No. 'Cause after it's normalized the self noise is a huge problem.

[mobilechaosyt]

It was close enough that if no one knew you were on a lav and you were not flipping between both, they wouldn't know. No one would know.

[HelenMcAllister-ykbx]

Watch out or you'll put yourself out of the quality microphone review game 😂 sounds awesome and, yep, like said in a previous comment it all ends up sounding the same to phone speakers