In today's video I will be subjecting three classic microphones to a comprehensive ABC test. Timestamps below!

The RE20 microphone was kindly provided to me by my friends at Adorama, this company is fantastic and they deliver all over the world. Here are links to each microphone should you wish to purchase any of them:

https://www.adorama.rfvk.net/re20bundle
https://wwwadorama.rfvk.net/SM57
https://wwwadorama.rfvk.net/U47

The microphones that I will be comparing are the ElectroVoice RE20, the Shure SM57 and a replica of a Neumann U47.

The EV RE20 is a fantastic dynamic microphone that is one of the industry standards for broadcast and voice over work.

00:00 Intro
00:46 RE20 history
03:30 Speech test
05:18 Dry vocals acapella
06:14 Dry vocals with instrumental
07:54 Mixed vocals with instrumental
09:33 Guitar test 1
10:57 Guitar test 2
12:47 Outro

In the test I will be speaking into each microphone, then singing and finally guitar. The singing will be recorded three times, once just acapella then with instrumentals behind and finally I will mix the vocals to get the best out of each microphone,

Each song I will be performing are my own compositions that you can find online. The links are below:

Fade Out Of View: https://open.spotify.com/track/7sScwO...

Lonely: https://open.spotify.com/track/3CrnGs...

The Feeding Hand: https://open.spotify.com/track/338dUb...

I am playing my homemade Fender Telecaster which I built myself, running it into a Hughes & Ketner Tubemeister 18 through an orange 1x12 cabinet.

If you would like to see more of these kind of videos then please let me know!

All music in these videos is composed by myself.