Good quality radio broadcasting needs a decent condenser microphone!
If you’re serious about setting up a radio / voiceover studio – or indeed doing any kind of audio voice recording, get a good quality condenser microphone and you will be well on your way to producing really top notch results.
A condenser microphone is a familiar site in radio/recording studios and in lay mans terms, you’ll notice that they are a lot bigger and usually hung from an arm, as opposed to microphones you’ve probably seen people singing/presenting on stage using.
If you want to know more about the technical side of things (although its not entirely relevant to what i’m saying), check out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condenser_microphone#Condenser.2C_capacitor_or_electrostatic_microphones
You can spend anywhere between £50 and £5000 (or more!) on a condenser mic. If you are running a home studio, i’d say something around the £80 -£150 mark would be ideal.
Behringer do some good condenser microphones, which are on a ‘low end professional’ budget (Eg. you can pick up a decent Behringer mic for around £100 – some on a similar level are £300 – 400).
Check out some of the condenser mics on:
http://www.behringer.com/02_products/group_index.cfm?mid=2&ID=500&lang=eng#LARGE%20DIAPHRAGM%20CONDENSER%20MICROPHONES
Other very well known makes you might want to look at include…
Audio-Technia: http://www.audio-technica.com/
Neumann: http://www.neumannusa.com/
Rode: http://www.rodemic.com/
AKG: http://www.akg.com/
Samson: http://www.samsontech.com/
January 7, 2008 | Hardware, Microphones, Radio