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In Reply to: Re: My Top Four: "musically" favorite hardware posted by hatfield on September 22, 2004 at 08:38:46:
hatfield,I was lucky that an recording engineer friend lent me several nice microphones when I was shopping around. The idea was that I would hear the bestr and then buy something to geain experinece until the "real" purchases. The microphones were generally top quality and four years later are still my reference sounds. These included: Neumann KM84 and U89, AKG 390, AKG C-414 EB, EV RE-20, and AT4050- and the aforementioned Schoeps CMC6.
Microphones still present a mysterious pallette and I learned why engineers need several kinds for various uses. The Schoeps CMC6 with the MK4 cardioid capsule is still for me the about the perfect acoustic instrument micrphone. Amazing refined sound with no discerinble emphasis or rough spots. The Neumann KM84s were close, but a by comparison a bit darker, not the amazing transparency of the Schoeps. if I hadn't heard the Schoeps, the KM84s would have been more than fine too!
My goal was to find a sound I liked and then for my first serious microphnes buy that one or similar. Nothing was enough like the Schoeps to qualify, but my second choice the KM84s had a distant relative. As I prefer dark to bright, especially when dealing with digital, so my solution was to buy Oktava MC012s- which are supposed to be KM84 copies.
Other results if you're interested: The best vocal microphone for me was the EV RE-20, suprisingly winning over the Neumann U89. The most versatile and still an amazing sound was the multi-pattern C-414 EB- an early version of the C414. I did find large diaphragm mics more difficult to place than the small. The AKG 390 was very nice too. I didn't come up with a way to make the U87s THAT wonderful- I really liked the Schoeps more for this use.
As I grow up in my recording world, I'm thinking of trying some of the new crop of more reasonably priced (thanks China!) valve microphones- the Studio Projects T3- multi pattern- looks very promising plus there's the Marshall MXL, SEs, CAD, and the like. I did try the AKG Solidtube and it was thin, too dark, and kind of sloppy sounding.
And as for the magic Schoeps- a pair of those with two or three capsules patterns would be fine! If I could just put aside a few hundred Dollars each month for a couple of years..
Cheers,
Bambi B
Recording chain: Kawai KG5> Oktava MC012 > Peavey all-tube VMP-2 preamp (Sylvania 5751s) > M-Audio Audiophile 2496 > Pentium 2.8 Ghz/ 1 GB RAM/ 200GB and 80 GB HDs, CoolEdit Pro 1.1 recording editing/ Sound Forge XP effects > CD-R
The very old (-1995!) CoolEdit has been great, but may very soon become Cakewalk Home Studio 2 "XL"- the software is more confusing than the mics!
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