Comments on: Electro-Voice RE20 Broadcast Dynamic Microphone Review

By: Ted

Ted — Sun, 28 May 2023 21:23:39 +0000

I use the ElectroVoice RE20 for capturing my voice during online course creation. I plug it into my UAD Apollo Twin Duo audio interface. I had a Sure SM7B, but couldn’t get the sound I was after from it. The RE20 is just a great fit for my voice and recording style. I have no doubt a more skilled audio person could get great sound out of the SM7B, but I really like how I sound on the RE20.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:18:31 +0000

Well said and yes, sometimes I don’t even know how to rate them, I mean it is the thing for radio broadcast… and it does it, not like there are many alternatives anyway. But as every mic it is only as good as promised when used for the right purpose, I wish everything could be done with a single mic but the truth is there are several dozens of different applications that may require different approach and the right tools of course. That is why I keep those reviews going.

By: John Razen

John Razen — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 11:10:26 +0000

This mic indeed makes you sound like you are from the radio, even if you try not to do so. It dampens as you say the background so much that it almost sounds sterile, there is literally nothing but the voice, the breath, the ambience, the background – everything is cut off. Surely a great find if you specifically require a broadcast mic of this caliber, but it might be overrated if used for anything else. For podcasting I would personally choose SM7B, for voiceovers – MKH416, for recording anything else. But for broadcast yes, EV RE20 is the king… amazing mic in the right hands!