"Iain Churches" wrote in message
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"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Ian Bell" wrote in message
Arny Krueger wrote:
Other than a few very expensive microphones, the mics
were about as bad as the speakers.
Rubbish. Neumann mics were plentiful.
Correct
Hello? Is there any intelligent life in there? Neumann
mics are and were premium-priced and therefore only a
tiny fraction of what is and was in actual use.
Neumann mics were and still are ubiquitous in broadcast
and professional studio applications.
Errr, not in the US.
There are at least a thousand or more TV and radio stations in the US that
have never had a Neumann, and never will.
It would probably be amazing to a Europeanista-white supremacist such as
your sweet self Iain; what creative, intelligent people can get done with
Shure, Electrovoice, Audix, and pacific rim branded microphones.
Even many of the major network affiliates in major US cities don't have any
Neumann mics, none at all.
I'm y kind of surprised that I see Neumanns on-the-air in major North
American productions as often as I do. For example, The standard vocalist
mic for American Idol (a show you no doubt despise) has been a Neumann KMS
105, if memory serves.
The KMS 105 is fine mic, I may buy one some day.
Despite your anti-religious bigotry Iain, spending money on ca. $500 mics
isn't against *my* religion. We've got a half-dozen Countryman E6s in
service, but I bet you don't even know what they are without looking them
up.
KMS 105s aren't that much more costly than E6s, but they are a vastly
different mic. Sort of retro at this point.
Nothing against Neumann at all, it is just that a lot more fruit drops
closer to the tree, and the Neumann trees are thousands of miles away from
the USA, in this case. Not a lot of AKGs in service around here, either.