3 Aug
2004
3 Aug
'04
8:11 p.m.
The RODE mics are very good. I have a friend who has replaced a fairly
expensive AKG condenser with an NT100. He says the NT100 is better. I
wanted a couple of cheap condensers to start with so I bought the
Marshall MXL2003 and MXL603 pair from Musician's Friend for $155 US. I
think MF quit selling them but American Musical Supply has the pair for
$170 US. They turned out to be much better than I thought. You can
hear a recording of some rockabilly that was done using the Marshall's
for drum overheads at http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/fuzzy2.html.
I also use them for vocals and acoustic guitar -
http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/destiny.mp3. If you want to spend
a bit more money, one of the engineers in a TapeOp interview said he had
just purchased a Marshall MXL V69 tube condenser and was very happy with
it. These go for $300 at AMS. BTW, the warm thing isn't empty. There
have been a couple of good papers on it (by EEs). Most of it has to do
with the property of tubes when they are overdriven. You can do a web
search and find a lot of information.
Jan
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 15:43, Alastair Couper wrote:
Yes, I should state the intention. I have a SM58
knockoff (by Fender) that
I use on hand drums. My interest de jeur is to record a female vocalist.
I am an electrical engineer by education, so am amenable to freq charts,
THD, spatial plots and such. But the "warm" thing seems to me empty. Seems
like judicious EQ should get you what you want, given that the transducer
is coming up with a clean reproduction to begin with. But then one gets
into subjectivity and black magic again.
I am looking a Studio Projects B1, for instance.