Re: Doing Home Recording
Phantom Power: If you have a condenser mic, you WILL need phantom power. Condensers need to have some power source due to their design. Just to give you some more background on mic types: Ribbon mics (especially older ones) will fry if they get phantom power. Dynamic mics have some circuitry that bypasses phantom, even if it is active.
But in the end, condenser needs phantom, dynamic (SM58) does not. Also, the SM58 is a very solid live application mic. It is pretty much industry standard live (unless you have a fancy wireless). Its will work fine at home, but you can take advantage of really hot (picks up a lot of sound) mics in the studio because you don't have to worry about feedback and bleed (when recording vocals).
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