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Default Pop Quiz! What Mic and What preamp?

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 23:49:57 -0400, Bill Ruys wrote
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The answer awaits......

I recorded a tune (vocal and guitar in one pass with the mic and preamp)
did
a bit of processing and cranked it out as a high bit rate stereo mp3.

I slated the gear at the beginning of the track.

Thanks for the input. I was actually pretty surprised I could get this
kind
of sound from this sort of rig.

Regards,

Ty



Which Crowley & Tripp mic, the Naked Eye? I knew it was a ribbon, but you
had me stumped on which one, or which pre-amp.

Bill.





Hello Bill,

Yes. The Naked Eye, with the darker front side. They did that thing that
Royer did by having one side brighter than the other. I did flip it once
before recording and didn't hear a major difference. I'm going to listen for
that more closely.

The Pre was the TRUE P-SOLO Ribbon preamp. TRUE used to be distributed by
Sennheiser.

A little EQ and comp/limiting creates a nice edge that allows the mic to
sound a little brighter. You can hear the difference between the un-messed
with guitar and voice tracks and the stereo mix.

I thought the match between mic and preamp were very nice. Even my RCA 77DX
perked up. It sounded a bit boxy, but you can tweek the pattern to adjust
the EQ in addition to the music and voice settings. I didn't do a lot of
tweeking on the RCA yet.

Regards,

Ty Ford

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