How important is it to build up a microphone palette?
There’s going to come a time, even in the realm of the home recordist, where his abilities have superceeded the audio buddy/sm57 chain. At that point, there’s nothing wrong with increasing his palettes. By the same token: I started off trying to record one of THE most difficult instruments, the grand piano, because thats what I play. Had I been somehow “forced” to use the above mentioned chain, I would have given up long ago. But ONLY by increasing both my mic palette, and my pre-amp palette was I able to have a chain of sufficient quality where differences in mic placement of “an inch” or so made an audible difference. – Michael Jones I feel in the scope of things, mic choice is and should be down the line of importance for most home recordists, because I think just about everything else will have a MUCH greater impact on the sound. I am certainly not excluding the choice and use of different mics for certain applications, but if you listen in the clinic (which I know you do), mic cho
