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Can anyone recommend a good mic for recording room ambience?

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From what I've read, Soundfield makes a great room-ambient mic: but it's mucho mucho expensivo!

http://www.soundfield.com/

For that kind of thing, many like to use a couple of condenser stereo microphones, but there are many many choices out there depending on your budget...

Maybe contact the folks over at Sweetwater, and see what they recommend.
http://www.sweetwater.com/

IMO, there are lots of great mics out there for cheap nowadays. And you can thank the Chinese.

Howabout a Nady RSM-5? An honest-to-God RIBBON mic for less than a hundred bucks!

Also check out the cheap MXL condenser mics.

SSIV

You can try my own DIY ribbon mic design:
www.rickshawrecords.com/ribbonmic

We used 2 on the most recent CHUM disc and 3 or 4 during the recording of the Sand Devils drum tracks - specifically to pick-up room ambience.

Ribbon Mics pick up in a figure-8 pattern, so while the front of the mic picks up whatever it's pointed at, the back picks up the reflectons from the room. Very cool for ambience.

  • Rickshaw

Complete DIY Ribbon Microphone plans available from:
www.RickshawRecords.com

RickshawRecords
You can try my own DIY ribbon mic design:
www.rickshawrecords.com/ribbonmic

We used 2 on the most recent CHUM disc and 3 or 4 during the recording of the Sand Devils drum tracks - specifically to pick-up room ambience.

Ribbon Mics pick up in a figure-8 pattern, so while the front of the mic picks up whatever it's pointed at, the back picks up the reflectons from the room. Very cool for ambience.

  • Rickshaw

I bought your ribbon mic plans a couple of months ago (before I joined this forum) and am looking forward to building a couple and trying them out Very Happy

They're somewhere on my LOOOOOOOOOOONG list of musical projects to be completed (-gotta assemble a Strat, Jazzmaster, and take care of some amps first).

The MXL67 is a pretty decent cheap (inexpensive) condenser in my opinion and would be good for room ambience mic'ing IMO.

www.apollo4.com

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