A small dose of audio geekery. At this year’s Playmakers festival, I presented a workshop on microphone types, explaining their properties and use cases for both studio and live.
I made a one-page PDF summary you can grab here.
I also made a short video about why I chose a small-diaphragm condenser (a Line Audio OM1 microphone to be precise) over a large-diaphragm (AKG C314) on my recent vocal recordings: