Just wondering if anyone has tried this microphone yet. It's supposed
to be decent for the money, but I haven't read any comprehensive
reviews on it. It's only a recent model, but I'm sure someone out there
has used one.

If anyone has used this I would appreciate their input.

Thanks
Ben

On Sat, 13 May 2006 01:16:16 -0400, wrote
(in article .com):

Just wondering if anyone has tried this microphone yet. It's supposed
to be decent for the money, but I haven't read any comprehensive
reviews on it. It's only a recent model, but I'm sure someone out there
has used one.

If anyone has used this I would appreciate their input.

Thanks
Ben


Don't know. I'm waiting for mics made because they sound good, not because
they can be sold at the right trigger price. The trigger price mics are sort
of like fast food. Sure, I'll eat at Micky Ds sometimes, but I'll go to a
good steak house when I want a real meal.

Regards,

Ty Ford



-- Ty Ford's equipment reviews, audio samples, rates and other audiocentric
stuff are at www.tyford.com

Just wondering if anyone has tried this microphone yet. It's supposed
to be decent for the money, but I haven't read any comprehensive
reviews on it. It's only a recent model, but I'm sure someone out there
has used one.

I don't get it. A tube-emulating solid state microphone? What could it
possibly do that a tube emulation plug-in couldn't? Can the emulation be
turned off when you don't want it? Sounds like a less-than-one-trick pony.

Zigakly wrote:

I don't get it. A tube-emulating solid state microphone? What could it
possibly do that a tube emulation plug-in couldn't? Can the emulation be
turned off when you don't want it? Sounds like a less-than-one-trick pony.

Well, in truth, the advantage of a tube front end on a microphone is that
it ought to be _less_ colored than a solid state one, since you can build
it without a couple modulation effects that FETs have with very high Z
sources.

In reality, a lot of traditional tube mikes are very colored, because things
were done to the design to sacrifice linearity for low noise and long tube
life. Not all of them, though. There are some very clean ones, like the
Schoeps 221b and the B&K 2615, for instance.

I'm not sure what Marshall is really doing.. I think this design came out
after Brent Casey left so it's hard to tell what they had in mind with it.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."