#audio engineering

hi podcast community!!

because i am not that deep into it (yet) we're focusing on the three vocal mics the boys use, josh's talkback mic, and the ride kid mic! i might look into josh's kit later.

ride kid

this is a really bad screenshot but if you're an audio nerd chances are high you already know what this is: say hello to the shure SM58!

This is probably the one on the right, an AD2/SM58 - our lovely ride kid is covering where the channel display would be, but the shape of bottom of the transmitter seems to be a good match.

2. josh's talkback mic

(images courtesy of @watchmefall42, this post was somewhat inspired by their spot the talkback post)

the more eagle-eyed among you may have already identified this guy: the SM58 once again! this one is wired. as the lovely watchmefall pointed out, drum island does not have a talkback mic! i am unsure if the b-stage kits have one.

3. tyler's glowing mic

you guessed it! say hello to our good friend the shure SM58. this was actually confirmed in an article from 2017 - they replaced some of its innards with LED strips.

nobody talk to me about the amount of stress it's poor xlr is under every time tyler swings it around. a piece of my soul dies.

4. tyler's normal mic

i originally thought this was a ULXD2/K11

but i was wrong! the same article that confirmed that the glowing mic is a gutted SM58 also tells us what the other mic tyler uses is: a KSM9HS capsule on a wireless transmitter

the major difference here is that little circle bit on the grill, which we can see is absent

and now, the moment we've all been waiting for, the microphone that sent me down this rabbithole in the first place:

5. jocals mic!

(image screenshotted from this instagram reel)

this guy is tricky. you'd think that no high-quality vocal microphone is that small. HOWEVER. shure sells just the mic capsules! so our first mission is to determine the capsule being used. this guy is very square, so its not a SM58 or a K11. my best guess is the SM86 capsule, shown below attached to a handheld transmitter.

the SM86 is pretty square, so it's a pretty good guess. there are probably other options because so many of shure's mics are very similar - hence the mixup i had with tyler's main mic earlier.

the transmitter is actually the easier part of this. since its so tiny, there are very few options.

meet the SLXD3+, a very small wireless transmitter. this would fit perfectly into the clip of a mic stand without having anything hanging out the back that could hit things. josh moves the mic towards and away from him, so it's probably important that his mic not knock into his cymbals and such. hence, my bet is that this is the transmitter on the jocals mic.

if you made it all the way to the end of my autism, thank you for reading! i hope you enjoyed. stay tuned (potentially) for me going insane over how josh's kit is mic'ed.

i created a discord server if anyone is interested! it’s for like minded people to come together and network, share inspiration, encourage each other and really just to learn from each other while sharing a similar love and passion for sound production and music as a whole.

let me know if you wanna join!!

Don’t let LIFE beat the ART out of you

I'm a really big fan of your work (definitely don't have any triggers and you can't PROVE otherwise) and was wondering if you had anything you'd be willing to or think is important to share

Side note, uhhhh it's totally normal to fall asleep to a hypnosis file nightly right? Definitely independent behavior?

Oh I absolutely love to talk shop! That said, it's a pretty broad field. Some top tips:

- compressors are magic

- Audacity's noise reduction function is magic

- strong sfx can cover for poor mic quality to a point

- binaurals are just a slightly offset sine wave frequency in each ear; the frequency of the binaural refers to the difference in hz between the two sine waves.