Neve4Ever
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I think that the capital letters person was just being sarcastic
I hope you're right.
Edit: Although $200 mics can sound damn good given the right signal path !!!
I've tested some with awesome results ! I even bought a couple !
I hope you're right.
Edit: Although $200 mics can sound damn good given the right signal path !!!
I've tested some with awesome results ! I even bought a couple !
Sonixx
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I thought he did a good job. Just giving his experience and maybe that could help someone starting out and is clueless. $300 for a Podcast mic seems pretty expensive to me and yeah the mic direction was a bit odd.
I don't see a reason to bash him or make fun.
I don't see a reason to bash him or make fun.
Neve4Ever
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If his condenser mic has different polar patterns, he can get the sound he's looking for even in that position. And he obviously does. You hear him nicely, right?
Neve4Ever
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mshilarious
Banned
Well I made 20 Youtubes making fun of a skinny white kid who couldn't play "Smoke on the Water" 
Steenamaroo
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If his condenser mic has different polar patterns, he can get the sound he's looking for even in that position. And he obviously does. You hear him nicely, right?
not especially.
plus he thanked someone for pointing out his error, and set the mic up 'properly' in his next vids.
i strongly doubt he's some pioneer of polar pattern use.
i'm still not convinced that the sound we heard was even coming from the mxl. (proxy effect, handling noise)
could be wrong about that, and tbh i don't really care.
the bottom line is people have definitely looked WAAAY to far into this.
Neve4Ever
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I haven't seen his other vids.
I've asked myself the same question. And you may well be right about this.
Agreed. The guy is just trying to be honest about his experience and seems to be a nice dude.
He's not a pro. I guess we all agree on that.
But he just wants to share his experience with others. I think that's respectable. And there's nothing to make fun of.
While pointing out some errors is fine. Mocking people, that way, for their mistakes is not the right thing to do.
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dintymoore
Guest
not my proudest moment
This is going back to 1971 when I was 14:
My parents used to send me to this two week music camp at a nearby university every summer. One time there was a guy there who was handicapped - he didn't speak normally, he looked odd... you get the picture. A friend of mine could do his voice pretty good and we all laughed. But there was this other guy that could do the guy's voice and mannerisms to the point that everybody's jaw dropped. You know when an impersonator can almost "become the guy"? Well that guy could do it like that. That guy was me.
All the students couldn't believe it. It was so dead-on that they got me to do it for the prof's at the university and they were stunned and impressed.
So one night I'm doing my new act out in the dorm hallway and everybody is laughing away when the guy, the guy I was mocking, came out of his room and I'll never forget what he said: "It's not nice to make fun of people".
whew
double whew
Complete silence, everybody put their heads down and went back to their rooms. What a fuckin' life lesson.
I have never felt like such a piece of shit in my life. Since then if I hear anybody making fun of someone else I feel like kicking their fuckin' head in.
Who the fuck are you? None of us is hot shit. Never make brownie points for yourself by mocking someone. That's so fuckin' low.
There's a saying: it's only funny if everyone laughs.
What I learned that day was: I have a lot of power. I can make people laugh. Don't use that power to make people gang up on someone. That's shit level.
This is going back to 1971 when I was 14:
My parents used to send me to this two week music camp at a nearby university every summer. One time there was a guy there who was handicapped - he didn't speak normally, he looked odd... you get the picture. A friend of mine could do his voice pretty good and we all laughed. But there was this other guy that could do the guy's voice and mannerisms to the point that everybody's jaw dropped. You know when an impersonator can almost "become the guy"? Well that guy could do it like that. That guy was me.
All the students couldn't believe it. It was so dead-on that they got me to do it for the prof's at the university and they were stunned and impressed.
So one night I'm doing my new act out in the dorm hallway and everybody is laughing away when the guy, the guy I was mocking, came out of his room and I'll never forget what he said: "It's not nice to make fun of people".
whew
double whew
Complete silence, everybody put their heads down and went back to their rooms. What a fuckin' life lesson.
I have never felt like such a piece of shit in my life. Since then if I hear anybody making fun of someone else I feel like kicking their fuckin' head in.
Who the fuck are you? None of us is hot shit. Never make brownie points for yourself by mocking someone. That's so fuckin' low.
There's a saying: it's only funny if everyone laughs.
What I learned that day was: I have a lot of power. I can make people laugh. Don't use that power to make people gang up on someone. That's shit level.
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dintymoore
Guest
It's funny but the hour of no posts since I posted that last one totally reminds me of the dead silence right after the guy told me it wasn't nice to make fun of people. 40 years ago and it still affects me.
Someone said once that you learn more from mistakes and that's what I've found. Every once in awhile I'll do something good and I'll say "gotta remember that" but for the most part my learning has been from totally fucking things up.
Someone said once that you learn more from mistakes and that's what I've found. Every once in awhile I'll do something good and I'll say "gotta remember that" but for the most part my learning has been from totally fucking things up.
bunt
Hand-Crank Mixer
aloha dinty,
Folks here know you're right. I think maybe the circumstances are a bit different here, though. This guy kind of set himself up for this. Your guy didn't.
Folks here know you're right. I think maybe the circumstances are a bit different here, though. This guy kind of set himself up for this. Your guy didn't.
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dintymoore
Guest
Mahalo bunt.
I'm probably way oversensitive to it because of that day.
I'm probably way oversensitive to it because of that day.
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Terra
Scholarly Gentleman
god damn, why are race comments the first to pop up and ruin the day? buzzkillington. this is just plain hilarious. i need to intern at his "studio".
bunt
Hand-Crank Mixer
A`ole pilikia dinty. Underdogs need heroes
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Lo-Fi Mike
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What
It's one thing to be a defenseless person just trying to live your life.
It's another when you are being arrogant about somthing .. I mean come on you point the mic at the ceiling and then you go on about how wonderful it sounds for pod-casting.
Who knows how many people went out a got a mxl v67 and started pointing it the wrong way because of this guy. If i walked in his set-up I would not make fun of him at all....I'd just say "hey man, this is a side-address mic". But this guy is posting this to the world in a sorta bragging way.
****I'm not even sure why I got involved in this discussion***
It's one thing to be a defenseless person just trying to live your life.
It's another when you are being arrogant about somthing .. I mean come on you point the mic at the ceiling and then you go on about how wonderful it sounds for pod-casting.
Who knows how many people went out a got a mxl v67 and started pointing it the wrong way because of this guy. If i walked in his set-up I would not make fun of him at all....I'd just say "hey man, this is a side-address mic". But this guy is posting this to the world in a sorta bragging way.
****I'm not even sure why I got involved in this discussion***
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dintymoore
Guest
I honestly didn't pick that up at all. What I got was a guy who's intention was to genuinely help people.
So as far as bringing this on himself, his mistake originated with trying help people. So he would have been better off if he didn't do shit. It would have been safer.
That's what bothered me. A guy who's genuinely trying to help people and people rag on him. I'll betcha if a "pro" went into the studios of most people who post here he could find stuff that was so pathetic and wrong he could laugh his ass off if he wanted to.
Just as wrong as the sideways mic. We're all like that guy - we're all fucked.
bunt
Hand-Crank Mixer
haha... well I know I am! And I've been smacked by a few people here on the bbs while other's have been more patient. Either way, in the end my mixes got better.
Neve4Ever
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Agreed +10000000000.
When I had my days at UCLA and UC Berkeley back in the 80's, there was a guy who was very, very good at impersonating people, like you probably were. And we all laughed.. But a similar experience, like yours, your arose. We all felt like F... shit.
Nothing else to say about it ...
That's not a nice feeling. period. We all make mistakes and try to learn from them. I did (for some).
You know what I mean.
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dintymoore
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...That's not a nice feeling... /QUOTE]
I still feel like shit to this day about it.
The only times I feel comfortable mocking someone is when they are so evil that they deserve it. Like I wouldn't feel bad mocking Hitler. I don't feel bad about this joke (sorry but you have to pretend that Saddam Hussein is still alive):
Q: you find yourself in an elevator with Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden and Kenny G. You have a gun but only two bullets. What do you do?
A: shoot Kenny G twice
I don't feel bad about that because I listened to one of Kenny's songs once and he still owes me for that.
Neve4Ever
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I'm not hearing any arrogance in what he says. Just a mic placement issue.
And, that said, the MXL v67 is not sold anymore. So I doubt anybody got one outside of f..Bay.
He doesn't sound like he's bragging to me. Just trying to get newbies started in a respectful way.
Neve4Ever
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...That's not a nice feeling... /QUOTE]
I still feel like shit to this day about it.
The only times I feel comfortable mocking someone is when they are so evil that they deserve it. Like I wouldn't feel bad mocking Hitler. I don't feel bad about this joke (sorry but you have to pretend that Saddam Hussein is still alive):
Q: you find yourself in an elevator with Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden and Kenny G. You have a gun but only two bullets. What do you do?
A: shoot Kenny G twice
I don't feel bad about that because I listened to one of Kenny's songs once and he still owes me for that.
LOL. I would shoot the other 2. But, considering my origins, ... that's another issue my friend.