Microphones are designed to work in a wide variety of situations and for a wide
variety of applications. Some are designed, like this SN58, to work
primarily for a vocal. And they'll be designed to produce vocal
frequencies well and to reject the frequencies that are not usually part of
the vocal range. A microphone like this AKG condenser mic
is designed to pick up. Everything as transparently or accurately
as possible. So it's going to pick up everything.
And this kind of EQ that the mike imposes is designed to make it work within a
specific situation and something we have to be very careful with when choosing a
mike for a specific application. If we look at the frequency response
charts of a microphone. Which is one of the standard charts that
comes with any mic, we can see that the frequencies that it, it's designed to pick
up well. And, the frequencies it's designed to
reject. It'll amplify certain frequencies and it
will reject others. We can see that the SM58, if we look at
the frequency response curve, has a peak at around 5000 hertz which helps the voice
come through well. And the bottom end kind of rolls off.
Kind of the areas that would be below a voice in a typical situation.
Akg 414, which is designed to pick up everything as accurately as possible is
going to have what we would consider a flat frequency response.
We might consider it to be a more transparent mic in that it picks up
everything equally. The sound in the outside world is going to
be represented accurately within your DAW. This is more of a what you hear is what
you get type of microphone. And this is going to be more design
specifically for a vocal. And you might find microphone designed for
specific instruments, like one that goes on a saxophone, or one that goes on an
acoustic guitar. And the main thing is that you choose a
microphone that's designed specifically for your application.
And choosing one with the right frequency response is an important aspect of that.