Anyone familiar with this mic? I used one on a radio VO today (I was
pretending to be talent). It sounded really nice. If you have one, what do
you use it on, typically?

Steve King

"Steve King"
Anyone familiar with this mic? I used one on a radio VO today (I was
pretending to be talent). It sounded really nice. If you have one, what do
you use it on, typically?

Maybe for very close micing a bass? That hypercardiod capsule was intended
as a speech capsule, and it has a big roll off on the low end. A hypercardiod
has good isolation but a lot of proximity effect normally, so with all the low
end roll off in the KM85 maybe you can get closer to a bass than you could with
other hypercardiod mics, maybe useful when you really need isolation.

You could also look for more caps for it, the KK84 (cardiod) or KK83
(omni).

Will Miho
NY Music & TV Audio Guy
Off the Morning Show! & sleepin' In... / Fox News
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away..." Tom Waits

I just realized you have a KMS85, the S is for soloist so it's a vocalist
version of the mic! I have a KMS84 which has the cardiod capsule in it, a
similar mic - also KM84's and KM85's.

If you try to mic a bass with it you can unscrew the pop filter and use it
that way, you'll see the gold plated capsule (at least mine is) inside is at no
risk at it might sound better.


Will Miho
NY Music & TV Audio Guy
Off the Morning Show! & sleepin' In... / Fox News
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away..." Tom Waits

"WillStG" wrote in message
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I just realized you have a KMS85, the S is for soloist so it's a
vocalist
version of the mic! I have a KMS84 which has the cardiod capsule in it, a
similar mic - also KM84's and KM85's.


S for soloist, that's interesting. I was working the mic fairly closely...
no more than 6 inches or so... yet it still sounded very clean, no tubbiness
at all. Must be the roll-off. If I ran across one, I might buy it.

Steve King