Halph-Price 
Zombie Algorithm
Registration Date: 22-12-2004
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oh yea man, that's the worst thing about recording with directional mics, especially the dynamic kinds.
depending on what mic you use it's different, but it's usually around the 200hz-500hz area.
as a rule of thumb, you can filter out everything other then 1khz-5khz. the main part of human speech that we need for understanding is the 1khz area, the part where you get all the T's and SH noises, is in the 5khz sound. thoes HISSING noises are called sibilance, they can range from 2 kHz-10 kHz. so i usually start at the 5khz and work from there.
usually you don't want anything lower then 500 hz on there because it's just the room noise and just garbage. you may want that though, if you want voice to have PRESENCE without actually pitching the vocals down. usually though, it just sounds boomy. hence why, the pitch down voice sounds better.
so there ya go. either that, or if you can't eq, for WHATEVER reason, you can do natural EQing by just moving away from the mic, but then you have to talk/sing louder.
generally don't stick the mic in your mouth like you see rappers do, it's just wrong, and the sound guy mixing them as filtered ALL of the low frequencies away, and it probably still has a deep, boomy sounding mic.
I hope this helps, you probably figured it out by now.
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