Mike Rivers wrote:

The rationalization (my words,
not Mackie's, who don't have any on the subject) is that with the gain
wide open, chances are there's going to be some low frequency ambient
noise that you're going to want to cut anyway. And at normal
rock-and-roll into-the-mic levels, the low frequency response is all
there. So in practice (and this may well be the case with the Rane
too) it isn't as bad as you'd like it to look.

So just don't buy any ribbon mics? g Because there it sounds worse
than I'd like it to sound, Mackie-wise.

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hank alrich * secret mountain
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