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Hi,
On Friday 19 March 2010 01:24:03 Ken Restivo wrote:

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> So I am recording the band's vocals tomorrow for this record, and, due to

>  acute poverty and our practice-room-mates absconding with all the mics,

>  the only mics we have available to us now are:

>=20

> 1) Shure PG-58 (with on-off switch! woo-hoo!)

> and

> 2) Zoom H2

>=20

> Which of these not-very-good choices would you recoomend would be slightly

>  less crappy for recording vocals?

As most people here haven't worked with the PG58 and so assume "standard"=20

Shure quality with these:
They get sold under 50=E2=82=AC for a box of three PG58 including cables. N=

ow think=20

how much quality you can expect from that...
If you had a SM58 or even a beta58, I wouldn't worry (although these are mo=

re=20

live mics), but the PG58 is just cheap crap.
Use the mics of the Zoom. Block its omni direction with some shielding arou=

nd=20

it, create an el-cheapo pop-filter with the singers nylons (assuming its a=

=20

she).
Maybe that helps...
Arnold
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