Apogee HypeMic: Built-In Compressor Tests & Comparison
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- Song: Why Georgia by John Mayer
Apogee Australian Distribution:
linkaudio.com.au
Download the four versions of the mix here:
www.dropbox.com/sh/4eou5fmtrd...
Thanks to Aquila Tavai for his vocals on this video.
00:00 HypeMic
01:51 Acoustic Guitar
02:30 Cajon
02:59 Electric Guitar
03:27 Shaker
03:38 Vocals
04:40 Description
05:18 Mix - Uncompressed
05:56 Mix - Low Compression
06:35 Mix - Medium Compression
07:13 Mix - Heavy Compression
07:53 Thoughts & Outro
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The singer has a very pleasant voice.
outstanding outstanding comparison video. This wasnt easy to make so i thank you for putting this out there. This is exactly what i was looking for
Just ordered mine yesterday
it arrives tomorrow
i'm so excited 😀
excellent excellent musical examples
& the vocalist so so talented!
A very nice and clear, comprehensible review of the Apogee HypeMic. It really brought it home the different compression levels and how they sound. The video was entertaining too as great playing and lovely singing. Really liked it considering I'm just about to buy this microphone among the Samsung G Track Pro, Yeti, Shure MV7 or MV88. I feel because it's for vocal recording microphone I need something that not too sensitive like the G Samsung Track Pro as none of the videos as eluded to the Apogee being sensitive so I imagine that's not a problem. Anyway, thanks for a great review.
Beautiful song! Thanks for the video
Great review 🤙
Great job. Thank you.)
Well done!
Nice reviews. I have been having a time getting mine set up right. I like to use it to record straight into an Iphone with no post. I like the raw, but the bass in fingerstyle playing really sounds a bit muddy and boomy to me. I would like it more dry and warm. I have tried about a foot to 2 ft away and with/with out compression.
Great video! And I have to say that I LOVE THAT SONG! I own this mic but have not used it yet...and I've been thinking of buying the Tula mic for portability and versatility. Do you have any input?
Medium seems to be the most effective. The bottom end remains tight with still clear top end.
Any one know what compressor is in the Hype mic?
Hi. What DAW are u using for this mic?
PreSonus Studio One :)
Completely wrong way to use audio compression. Except perhaps for electric bass where you want the note sustained. But these are mostly direct injected into the console, not miked.
For one thing nothing should be compressed, if you want things to sound right. Especially more so these days with Spotify and even RUclips using LUFS levels for general listeners (audiophiles can bypass this).
The only 'instrument' that must be compressed is vocals; skilled vocalists know how to step back from their mics when they sing louder, but hardly anyone is professionally trained these days. So compression helps to not blow out our eardrums on playback. But the peaks that are "removed" from compressing the vocals should be sent off to an echo chamber effect control and added in (at a low level) into the mix to create a more realistic 'hall' sound. That is the way things were done in the heyday of professional analogue recordings. These days self-taught "sound engineers" simply make up their own rules but don't actually understand or appreciate good recordings.
How to 'repair' our faulty hearing habits? Just listen with a good pair of headphones to a selection of hits on Spotify from the 1970s and 1980s. Some might be thin sounding (a few engineers had boomy loudspeakers and so cut the bass incorrectly in their final 2-track mix downs) but those left "flat" are awesome. Once you have a collection of such 'balanced' sounding tracks play them in sequence in a (Spotify) playlist. Then - at random - throw in any hit from these past 10 years, and you will be shocked at how much worse recordings are these days.
When recording vocals, I often use a 1176 combined in series a LA2A, or just a CL1B alone. In the mix stage, I add more compression specifically to the vocals. Subsequently, the entire session receives added stereo compression before reaching the limiter. The Hype mic offers a flexible solution for on-location vocal recordings. It's an invaluable tool for singer-songwriters to effortlessly capture top-notch demo or reference tracks on their mobile devices, wherever they may be, streamlining the process of forwarding these to a producer for enhancement
Everything you say is correct and you clearly know what you are talking about, but for someone that just wants to plug in and play this can be useful. It seemed like the compression only really came out on the vocals in this video, and even though it was very light it did have an effect.