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In article OSPAM writes:

Let's face it, a couple or three dB's worth of crap at the
ever-so-slightly-audible level isn't going to make or break ANY recording,
but don't we all want to try & get the best quality we can justify the
expense for, with regard to any of our gear?

In general, yes. If you have the choice of two microphones, both
within your budget, there's no reason to choose the inferior one. But
rarely are your options that simple. If there were truly two mics that
were identical in real performance, not just on spec sheets approved
by the Marketing Department, with the exception of quiescent noise,
there's no reason for anyone to buy the one with the higher noise. So
either this isn't a realistic situation or there are a lot of
customers who have been duped.

Nowadays in the digital world, any noise in the signal chain shows up more
than ever, as compared to the analog world

This is true, but the hum in my analog console is more noticable than
the self noise of my mics. It was no problem before digital. So the
mic self noise problem doesn't apply to me until I get rid of another
layer of noise, and that isn't going to happen real soon. I'm not
about to invest weeks of time and a few hundred dollars worth of parts
in a 15 year old console that was a budget-priced console at the time.

If I was starting from scratch, I would indeed be concerned with noise
sources and I would consider this when selecting equipment to fit my
budget. And if I was actively working and charging people for product,
I'd be able to justify the significant expense of a new console or a
rebuild, but I'm not. I'm willing to accept less-than-the-best so I
can have time and money for other things. Ty makes a portion of his
living from his voice-over work, so it's advantageous to be able to
deliver a product that not only has his talent, but is of high technical
quality. Me, I mess around these days much more than deliver "CD-ready"
product, so it doesn't make sense to me to replace major investments
every couple of years because the technology improves. I don't need to
compete in that way.

It's a personal decision, but one that everyone should consider and not
just run blindly into a product with better specs.

In my case, if I was only going to
be using said SDC pair for drum overheads in a rock context, then microphone
self-noise wouldn't be much of an issue; however, since it looks like I
might be doing some more classical recording in the near future, it now
becomes more of an issue. That's all. Pretty simple.

I think you need to evaluate what you get in the actual working
situation. We understand that the more noise sources you have going
into a mix, the more noise you'll have in the mix, but with only two
mics, (and you probably won't be doing 10 to 20 dB of compression and
follow-on level boosting) it isn't going to be bad at all.

Pretty simple.

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