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Depending on your budget, these would be great:
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I play guitar and take photos of stuff. I also like beans on toast.
Close mics would be my preferred option there; for a low-ish budget, I'd be tempted to grab an SE2000 for about £50-odd and maybe an AKG C1000S for the guitar (especially if you can find one with the additional inserts for different polar patterns).
Condensors will pick up the room much more than a dynamic so make your choice accordingly.
A good dynamic vocal mic would be the Shure SM7b.
An excellent acoustic guitar mic would be a Josephson C42.
I suspect these might be over budget new.
If you want one mic to do it all then a Rose NT1 would be worth considering.
SE do some decent options too,.
Consider buying a better mic used though.
I paid £300 for one of my (4) Josephson C42's.
They are a terrific microphone and I can use them on just about anything.
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So a lot of the time, for vocals and acoustic guitar, I'd rather have an Electrovoice RE20 or some other good dynamic than a sub-£500 condenser. I appreciate you might be skeptical that a mic like an RE20 would work on an acoustic guitar, but it's one of my go-tos - it's a great all-rounder.
The other complicating factor is the only way to find out what works best for your voice is to use a bunch of different mics in anger and see. If you're buying blind... in my experience a good dynamic will sound at least ok on pretty much everyone, whereas a condenser might be perfect or totally wrong for a voice, again because of those distortions and resonances that are pretty much inherent in the design. Where they fall and how they interact with your voice might make it sound larger than life, expensive and rich... or might make it chesty, hard, sibilant or edgy.
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Acoustis or electric guitars?
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
One condenser and some self-build bass traps might cost about the same.
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Dynamics have proximity effect being more noticeable.
Condensors have less of a proximity effect but will pick up more of the room.
Nothing will sound bad, unless you go absolute bargain basement.
The SE-X1 is a decent mic.
Compared to 20 years ago it is much harder to buy a bad microphone, pretty much everything available is ok to good.
You still have to spend a lot of money to get 'great'.
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I love it!
I'd suggest going for the Spirit instead- for an extra hundred £ you get multi-pattern.
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.