Best Sounding Microphone Emulation *For My Voice* Using My Sphere L22 Microphone

The Sphere L22 Microphone comes with many different emulations of classic microphones to choose from (The Townsend Labs Sphere Collection), and you can even change between emulation profiles AFTER RECORDING THE AUDIO! Very cool.

Recently I sound-checked my voice on every single emulation they offer to determine which one was most suitable for my own voice.

Quick Note: When you purchase the microphone you get a bunch of emulations along with it (The Townsend Labs Sphere Collection). There are two additional emulation collections which are available from Universal Audio — The Ocean Way Microphone Collection, and The Bill Putnam Mic Collection.

For my test I tried all the emulations from all three collections.

RESULTS?? *For my voice* the overall winner was the “LD-414 NYLON” emulation in the Townsend Labs Sphere Collection (which comes with the mic). Runners up were the “OW-12 #2” from the Ocean Way Collection and the BP-251E from the Bill Putnam Mic Collection.

I’ll be demonstrating the sound of these three emulations on an upcoming episode of my Podcast Engineering Show. Stay tuned.

And FYI, I was kind of expecting one of the U47 emulations to sound the best on me, but as we all know — sounding great it’s not about the mic itself, it’s about the unique marriage between the microphone and the person’s unique voice. Finding the combo that sounds best is truly a boon.

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