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I've posted this before. Not so much to do with the current style and benefits of hanging a tube mic upside down, but the original reason happened because if the Telefunken U47. The M7 capsule in that mic was made from poured PVC, which basically started drying out from the moment it was poured...

I prefer the ones that capture sound and convert it to electrical signals. The other ones...not so much.

Be careful man. You gotta be sure to buy a special "rap mic". Buy the wrong thing and you'll end up sounding like you're singing. I've recorded rap with the wrong mic where whole words went missing.

Funny how my opinion changed in the last 5-6 YEARS, Richie. I now DO own quite a few PVC diaphragm mics, Richie (presumably you've heard of Siegfried Thiersch)... plus I know the full back story of the U47 and the heat issue vs. the PVC diaphragm, which, as I said in the OTHER THREAD just today...

The first mic ever hung upside down was the Telefunken/Neumann U47 and it was hung upside down for a reason. The M7 capsule in that mic had a diaphragm made from PVC, which starts drying out pretty much as soon as its poured. The diaphragm cracks like a spider web and becomes brittle and starts...

Well, ...I am just blown away!:laughings::laughings::laughings:

You should also hear a difference in the shrillness of the high end. That really adds up with multiple tracks.

I would never let anyone talk me out of an SM7B. As a matter of fact, I should get one.

There's a way to do this without solder, but it can be kind of expensive. What you want to look for is conductive epoxy, also called silver epoxy. Like I said, it can be expensive.

Typically the rules are: Small/medium diaphragm mics are better for accuracy, LDC's tend to be more forgiving & musical the larger the pressure gradient is (and the transducer type). A bunch of variables influence that. Transformer vs. transformer-less (more/less coloration) and the components...

Seems to me when they describe the capsule as being somewhere "between a U47 (dark) and the high end of a C12" that means it could describe any standard Chinese capsule. Big bottom, but bright. Having both qualities doesn't mean "do all". Certain mics are dark or bright for a purpose. Most...

I wish. No, I'm just the head of IT for the agency that produces all of these shows.

Hey Henry! Wow! That's kinda similar to what we do. Walmart Soundcheck - Watch Keith Urban Interviews, Live Performances, Music Videos

Yeah, I played oak sticks when I first started out for the first 8 years out of 29 years. I'll never play oak again.

This is fairly easy to deal with. I know that a real K47 is OK with about 60v for polarization voltage, so you shouldn't have issues with the diaphragm being sucked into the back plate if that's what you're getting. (of course, depending on where you're measuring.) If you're getting too much...