EggHd wrote:

There is no ONE mic or mic pre to suit all
situations.

It makes you wonder how all the classic albums we hear recorded and mixed on
the same console sound so good. This only addresses the mic pre issue.


Uhhh, no... it addresses the entire production issue. The "classic albums we
hear recorded and mixed on the same console" were arranged a bit differently
than albums are arranged today... they were recorded in rooms that were far and
away better than 99.9987% of the recording rooms that exist today... with far
better microphone collections than generally exist today.

Consoles of that period also had far better sonic qualities than the consoles of
today... so your mic pre point is pretty ****in moot when you really add up all
the differences between the "classic albums that were recorded and mixed on the
same console" and the Pro-sTools/Auto-Tuned-Lord-Alge/SSL-Marcussen Mastering
type "loudness above audio" stylings we are subjected to today... perhaps having
a choice of pre's is one of the few ways we can actually try to subtly
differentiate our product as the 'record selling machinery' seems to be hell
bent on everything sounding "the same"
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