Vox Humana

As I mentioned in my proposal, auditioning mics and honing the vocal sound is an important part of Epworth's approach to vocals. The artist I had originally intended to write with (James Ashcroft) was gracious enough to sing on my track and the first thing we did when he arrived at the studio was test him out on three different microphones to see which one captured the best character from his vocal.

Here are the mics we tried out:

From left to right: The Neumann U87, the AKG 414, and the Shure SM7B.

The SM7 differed the most out of the three and was immediately thrown out. Neither James nor I could really pick out any obvious differences between the sound of the 414 and the U87 so James arbitrarily picked one: the 414. From there, we were ready to track the vocal.