Your first home studio microphone : dynamic or condenser?

If you're buying your first microphone for your home studio, what type should you go for? This video compares dynamic and large diaphragm condenser (LDC) mics, and recommends which you should go for as your first home studio mic.
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[@7171jay]

A condenser mic tends to offer more detail and better transient response than a dynamic mic. Whether this is a good thing or not depends on what your are after sonically and how you prefer to work.
Many budget condensers lean towards being overly hyped making them sometimes edgy and unpleasant, sometimes overemphasizing sibilance and mouth noises in a bad way. This can be delt with using a de-esser and/or eq but some prefer to use a dynamic mic and deal with adding a bit of top end or using a compressor with a slow attack to let the transients through and even enhance them somewhat.
Dynamic mics tend to do better in bad sounding rooms as you can get right up close on them to get a drier sound with less of that bad room in the recording. You do have to be careful however as a mic like the SM57 and SM58 has a considerable proximity boost so you will have to do some low eq cut to make up for being so close to the mic but this is an easy fix and can be better than recording with a condenser from further away and getting a lot of bad room sound or even external noise from outdoors or HVAC systems.
The SM58 (or SM57) can certainly be a great mic to get and it isn't very expensive but there are some decent condensers that cost the same or just a bit more. The AudioTecnica AT2020 is a fairly passable budget condenser, personally I would invest a little more if you want to go the condenser route but even the AT2020 should be capable of good sound if you know what you are doing with it.

[@AkaSnugD]

Great video. Really enjoy your channel

[@darkphotographer]

i have buy a bunch of mics from stagg or berhinger , yee they sound grate , you can get 5 cheap sm57copy mics for the price of 1 , sure sm57 and 99% of people will not be able to tell the difference , and also 90% of people lessen to music on laptop or phone speakers or with cheap small earbuds , or on car speakers ,

[@7171jay]

@dark The claim that recording quality doesn't matter because people listen on sub-standard gear is silly and backwards.
In reality you want the best sound you can achieve when recording, mixing, and mastering so when people degrade that with crappy playback gear there is still hopefully something at least somewhat decent sounding remaining.
If your recording sounds poor to begin with then bad playback gear is going to magnify that and make things even worse.
As to using those super cheap Shire knockoffs, some of them do sound sort of ok but by spending $100 on the Shure you have a known quantity that you can count on rather than a supercheap mic that has you wondering what you might or might not be missing.

[@darkphotographer]

@@7171jay remember ,, you are dealing with musicians ,,, most are broke ,