Do you know Michael Jackson? Or how about Stevie Wonder? Those guys are very famous singer. However, do you know what microphone they used when they recorded their voice?
Michael Jackson used Shure SM57 mic. This is cheap mic. Its price is only 100 dollar. One famous mic’s, named U87, price is over 5000 dollar. That’s weird. Why Michael Jackson only used 100 dollar mic? In fact, this mic is used in Barack Obama’s speech. If you were interested in mic, you could see black mic covered with black spongee when his speech. This mic’s sound is clear, and it pick high frequency well. And also Michael jackson’s voice has a lot of high frequency. That’s why He used SM57.
However, Stevie Wonder used Electro-Voice(EV) RE20. Many people are used to record kick drum to use this mic. But when he recorded Superstition, he picked this mic to record. This is his one of famous mic.
Plus, this is off the record, do you know why Stevie Wonder wrote “Isn’t she lovely?”. Maybe you know he is blind. When he married and got his daughter, he really wanted to see his baby. He told his doctor, but the doctor said, “I can do operation to you, but you can see only a few minute.” But he agreed with that, and he did surgery. After surgery, he can saw his daughter, and he became blind again. The girl that in the song “Isn’t she lovely?” is his daughter.
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