pete wrote:
So in other words, if all other things are exactly the same (the mics,
the room, the performance, the stylistic choices, and so on....) it
would really make no difference whether you used vintage API 312s, or
Great River ME-1NVs or A Designs MP-1s, etc. The final product would
sound the same, right?

Not the same, but not all that different.

Compare Paul McCartney with Frank Sinatra. Sinatra worked for a long
time and lived through at least two total revolutions in audio production
and technique. But listen to his early recordings and the stuff he did
late in life... and in spite of sixty-year difference in technology, they
sound a lot more like one another than McCartney in 1972 did from
McCartney in 1976.
--scott
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