Just received the new Swee****er Spring 2007 catalog. Disclaimer; "THIS
IS NOT AN ENDORSEMENT!" However, they do have a page entitled, "Studio
Hardware Packages," where they suggest a "Mic Cabinet" that includes the
following:
1 SM57 - Shure Dynamic Mic
1 RE20 - Electrovoice Dynamic Broadcast Mic
1 MD421 - Sennheiser Cardioid Dynamic Mic
1 DK25R - Earthowrks Drum Kit System - Recording
1 NT5 - Rode Matched Pair Condenser Mics
1 AT4050 - Audio-Technica Multi-pattern Condenser Mic
1 MA200 - Mojave Audio Tube Condenser Mic
1 TLM103 - Neumann LDC Condenser Mic - Nickel
1 C414BXLS - AKG LDC Mic
1 R121 - Royer Dynamic Ribbon Mic + RSM1 Royer Shockmount
1 U195 - Soundelux LD FET Mic
1 Dragonfly - Blue Cardioid Condenser Mic
Total List $12,558.00 USD, they say, under $9,800...even at that price
that's quite a cabinet! Now for those of us on a budget, maybe these
are some good and decent choices, but I guess it all depends where in
the game/chain you are and ($$$) you have? Hmmm? The redundancy on
dynamic and condenser mics, I would venture to think they have enough
varying characteristic's that warrant the inclusions. FWIW!
Pops
Ben - TheStudioRI.com wrote:
On Mar 20, 10:25 am, "Fletch" wrote:
On Mar 18, 1:21 pm, "ostaz" wrote:
I'm always interested in what other people are using for studio mics. I am
fairly limited in that I only have two Nady scm-1000's and a Shure sm-58
beta which I use for live, not really for studio. The Nadys sound pretty
good when I use them for vox, sax, or bouzouki. I think they are a decent
general purpose mic and they were not very expensive. I just got the new
Mackie 1642 vlz mixer and I think I'm going to try to use it's preamps for
the next recording because I really hate my TubeMP....it sounds way too
harsh!
Pete
I've been using AT4050's for vocals and room, 57's of course for
guitar and whatever, D112 on kick, NT-5's on overheads, AT4041's for
acoustic instruments.
I will be adding C414Buls, Neumann TLM49 and some others over this
coming year.
--Fletch
Fletch, I own a pair of the 414's and was looking at purchasing a
4050. have you put the two side by side to compare? I'd be
interesting in knowing the differences you hear. One person told me
the 4050 was very 414-esque. If it is, then there's no point in
getting the 4050 for me, but alas, I have not compared them
personally. I'm still wanting to hear the TLM49, but my time has been
really short lately.. 