CoolCat
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GAS struck. Ive thought about a tube mic for years but never test drove one here.
Its one type of mic Shure doesn't make for some reason? The kind of Chineese APHEX 460 was in the cart many times and others too...but I went for the RODE NTV.
What Application? male voice & acoustic guitar
Where? small box room HR..like a booth really in a house that has neighbor dogs barking that I can hear through the walls and windows kind of place.
GAS, sometimes the gearhead hunt is as fun in a techy historian way.
Interesting reading back into time of 1995-2000 when the HR was really sprouting up and a demand for better stuff yet affordable was becoming more common. Channel strips and desktop units, instead of large consoles for the HR market. Soon better mics , cheaper mics being sold as the prices on the legend names started skyrocketing (and dying off as they aged). Tube stuff had odd connections and worn out and expensive, maybe noisy too.
Solidstate painted with sterile, and other boring names. "WARM UP YOUR DIGITAL TRACKS!" was a motto of marketing too. Starved Plate tube designs vs old-school high plate voltage debates....
RODE NTV.
1999 ish,,,, RODE introduced a NTV after the NT1, NT2 & CLASSIC per the Mix article below. The discontinued NTV price was around $1100 per Recording Hacks.
The used is current at $350-$500.
RODE NTV has the case, two type of mic holders, and the p.s. and cables and mic.
Even more gearhead it has esoteric Black Gates, Wima, and Solen caps and a JENSEN Output Transformer....which reading tube mic articles I wanted the "transformer" Tube mic just because.
RODE NTV: TRUE CONDENSER VALVE MICROPHONE - Mixonline
ROEDE NTV | RecordingHacks.com
If it is too sensitive for my HR room I'll sell it and re-buy a SM7b....to keep the noise out.
Sometimes great mics need great rooms, I get that and understand that.
Tu-be or not Tu-be....that is the question!
Its one type of mic Shure doesn't make for some reason? The kind of Chineese APHEX 460 was in the cart many times and others too...but I went for the RODE NTV.
What Application? male voice & acoustic guitar
Where? small box room HR..like a booth really in a house that has neighbor dogs barking that I can hear through the walls and windows kind of place.
GAS, sometimes the gearhead hunt is as fun in a techy historian way.
Interesting reading back into time of 1995-2000 when the HR was really sprouting up and a demand for better stuff yet affordable was becoming more common. Channel strips and desktop units, instead of large consoles for the HR market. Soon better mics , cheaper mics being sold as the prices on the legend names started skyrocketing (and dying off as they aged). Tube stuff had odd connections and worn out and expensive, maybe noisy too.
Solidstate painted with sterile, and other boring names. "WARM UP YOUR DIGITAL TRACKS!" was a motto of marketing too. Starved Plate tube designs vs old-school high plate voltage debates....
RODE NTV.
1999 ish,,,, RODE introduced a NTV after the NT1, NT2 & CLASSIC per the Mix article below. The discontinued NTV price was around $1100 per Recording Hacks.
The used is current at $350-$500.
RODE NTV has the case, two type of mic holders, and the p.s. and cables and mic.
Even more gearhead it has esoteric Black Gates, Wima, and Solen caps and a JENSEN Output Transformer....which reading tube mic articles I wanted the "transformer" Tube mic just because.
RODE NTV: TRUE CONDENSER VALVE MICROPHONE - Mixonline
ROEDE NTV | RecordingHacks.com
If it is too sensitive for my HR room I'll sell it and re-buy a SM7b....to keep the noise out.
Sometimes great mics need great rooms, I get that and understand that.
Tu-be or not Tu-be....that is the question!