Electrovoice RE20

[AdamWathan]

Anyone actually have one and use it on vocals? I know it gets brought up as competition to the SM7B and I want to buy one of them, but you hear about the RE20 being used for kick drums, guitars, etc. as well as just vocals, so logically it sounds like the most versatile choice, but I'm curious how it actually performs on vocals directly next to an SM7...

 

[KeithTidd]

in my personal experience, i would use an sm7 before i would use an RE20 on vocals. I found when i used the re20 on vox that it was too low-middy. It rules on toms, kick, bass, gtr though. the RE20 could work on some voices, but you'd have to try it yourself. It seems to work for thom yorke.

 

[MetalSound]

I use it nearly all the time for vocals. I used to record vox with an Audio Technica 4050 but I found it too thin on metal vocals and I don´t need that much high end for metal.