CoolCat
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Its summer, the noisy rumble of the window ac is running, a floor fan too. The room is poorly done and not sealed from anything such as noise. Noise is what lead me to the SM7b, and pros' singing in the noisy control room etc. (which lead me to preamps and gain etc..because these things have no gain)
We all know SM7b and RE20.. these two just own this area of mics and it seems they always will. MXL did this BCD1 around 2011.
COST:
I grabbed a BCD1, is MXL version of this genre. Its on Amazon $95 if you want a Limited Edition Midnight that looks black or purple or brown depending on the light photons. BLACK is.$140.
(SM7b keeps climbing $400 as of this writing, RE20 $400. )
INCORRECT INFO FOUND:
1)My fav site of mics is Recording Hacks but for the first time they didn't have much. Matter of fact they even had wrong info on this mic. Theres no HPF, let alone three of them?
2)Many places also call BCD1 a LARGE Diaphragm mic, unable to find pics, the BCD-1 was taken apart.
Results its NOT a LARGE D, its the same as a Shure SM7b....same as a SM57 same as a SM58...
3)Even MXL's manual paper says MUST USE PHANTOM POWER WITH THIS MIC...??
Its a dynamic and no Phantom is needed.
4) another review mentions it doesn't come with the standard mic stand adapter but it does, you just have to unscrew it and the insert comes out for the larger mic stand thread adapter.
EARS TEST:
plug in, first impression, my 2 cents it sounds like a SM7b that sounds like a SM58 and can use some "tweeks" to polish, like 10k , to get the LDC sound. The noise rejection was great compared to my LDC. (noise = window ac and floor fan)
The BCD kiks ass in removing the room but needs gain like the SM7b. Also the amount of rumble was hugely removed when I picked up the BCD1 and held in the air, not the mics fault but a Mic Arm thing is a great idea for a crap room/area with rumbles transferring to anything solid.
for $100, BCD-1 works well. I added a short sound clip in my room of my LDC and BCD1 background noise rejection, but if that's too much trouble ….basically I was getting up to -42 on the LDC idle and there was no reading on the DAW for the BCD1 (but I could hear some noise in the headphones).
Truth is I will probably never spend a bunch of money in this room, it will never be silent, so Headphone mixing and BCD1 genre of mics is probably a smart deal...technically and financially.
We all know SM7b and RE20.. these two just own this area of mics and it seems they always will. MXL did this BCD1 around 2011.
COST:
I grabbed a BCD1, is MXL version of this genre. Its on Amazon $95 if you want a Limited Edition Midnight that looks black or purple or brown depending on the light photons. BLACK is.$140.
(SM7b keeps climbing $400 as of this writing, RE20 $400. )
INCORRECT INFO FOUND:
1)My fav site of mics is Recording Hacks but for the first time they didn't have much. Matter of fact they even had wrong info on this mic. Theres no HPF, let alone three of them?
2)Many places also call BCD1 a LARGE Diaphragm mic, unable to find pics, the BCD-1 was taken apart.
Results its NOT a LARGE D, its the same as a Shure SM7b....same as a SM57 same as a SM58...
3)Even MXL's manual paper says MUST USE PHANTOM POWER WITH THIS MIC...??
Its a dynamic and no Phantom is needed.
4) another review mentions it doesn't come with the standard mic stand adapter but it does, you just have to unscrew it and the insert comes out for the larger mic stand thread adapter.
EARS TEST:
plug in, first impression, my 2 cents it sounds like a SM7b that sounds like a SM58 and can use some "tweeks" to polish, like 10k , to get the LDC sound. The noise rejection was great compared to my LDC. (noise = window ac and floor fan)
The BCD kiks ass in removing the room but needs gain like the SM7b. Also the amount of rumble was hugely removed when I picked up the BCD1 and held in the air, not the mics fault but a Mic Arm thing is a great idea for a crap room/area with rumbles transferring to anything solid.
for $100, BCD-1 works well. I added a short sound clip in my room of my LDC and BCD1 background noise rejection, but if that's too much trouble ….basically I was getting up to -42 on the LDC idle and there was no reading on the DAW for the BCD1 (but I could hear some noise in the headphones).
Truth is I will probably never spend a bunch of money in this room, it will never be silent, so Headphone mixing and BCD1 genre of mics is probably a smart deal...technically and financially.
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