On this 5th installment of my mic demo series I’m out to find out if the AKG C1000s is indeed the “Swiss Army Knife of Microphones” by using it for vocals and acoustic guitar.
As a Drummer, I’ve come to know the AKG C1000s as either an overhead or a hi-hat mic. Being a small-diaphragm condenser, I also noticed that engineers would typically use it for acoustic guitars, and I had bought it for those exact three purposes.
However, as I like to experiment with different microphones on each vocalist I get to record, I started including the C1000s in the shootouts. Eventually, I found myself coming back to it more often that I would’ve imagined. More than once I found myself favouring it for vocals over more conventional, large-diaphragm mics.
Recently, I found myself using it quite a lot while recording Tali for our project Shadow Ensemble, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to demo the mic and also give a peek into how we record a guide track for a new song. The acoustic guitar here was also recorded with the C1000s, together with its pick-up panned hard left for a fuller sound.
What’s your surprising go-to studio weapon? Share your thoughts below!
Song: ‘A Wolf at the Door’ (Original) by Shadow Ensemble
Listen to our debut EP: shadowensemble.bandcamp.com
Music, lyrics & guitar by Tali Magory
All recorded with the AKG C1000s
Video shot with Nikon D5300
That sounded like a dream. Nice job 🙂
Thanks Dani G 😉
Moving away for one second from the superb audio recording, the sublime voice and beautiful song, I’ve listened many times but there about 5 words that I can’t just quite catch. I’ve searched the web but can’t see the lyrics anywhere. Would you be so very, very, very kind as to e-mail them to me Oren?
Thanks, Clive! Glad you liked it 🙂 Lyrics are on their way..
Sounds excellent on her. Is this in the stock cardioid pattern or did you use the Polar Pattern Converter insert? Did you find yourself having to EQ out any harshness?
I actually have a AKG C1000s from the late 80s, used to record my sister on it onto a Tascam 4-track cassette, mezzo soprano classical voice. I was going to pull it out and try it on my dobro, have heard it’s good for live performance.
Thanks, Bernie! It was the stock pattern and no EQ adjustments other than perhaps some basic hi-passing, etc’.. I also got to use it as a drum overheard in some live scenarions. I really love it, it’s super versatile!