With all the tutorial videos, podcasts, and webinars I do, I spend a lot of time in front of a microphone, recording spoken word.
I almost always use a dynamic microphone (my trusty AKG D5).
When I first started doing tutorial videos, I would go for my best “radio voice,” and put the microphone right up next to my mouth. As we all know, our good friend the Proximity Effect exaggerates the bass frequencies of a source as you move the mic closer to it.
While my voice sounded big, it also sounded a bit boomy. (more…)