Get three coffins ready

" Get three coffins ready " says the man with no name to the undertaker.

I love shootouts, not only movie shootouts, but also the audio variety. They're also a bit less dangerous.

This week we grabbed a few spare minutes in amongst our real work and our good friend Lyn Goddard demoed some mics.

Three large diaphragm condenser mics were used to record a female vocal. A Neumann U87, a SE Gemini and a Telefunken AK47 were recorded using a Chandler TG2 pre amp and Lucid AD conversion to Logic Pro. The gains were matched more accurately using Sonalksis's FreeG plug-in. Two mics were recorded simultaneously so you can here the same take on two mics. This was repeated three times in a round robin format to allow accurate comparison.

You can find the shootout here and a little more information on our shootout philosophy here.

Thanks to Lyn for supplying the talent and the song.