I have one and don't see much use for it at all. BOOMY bottom end, plasticy highs, scooped mids. Dang, I shouldn't have posted this before I stick it on ebay.
He uses a tweed deluxe and a big part of that sound is feedback and a bigsby tremelo. You can get pretty close at home with a tweed champ but it's still gonna be fairly loud
I just picked one of these up on ebay and did a casual comparison to a SM57 and Sennheiser 421 through a PA miking vocals and various instruments. The i5 has lots more bass than the other mics, and is brighter than the 57. It doesn't have the warm midrange of the 57 or the detailed clarity of...
As far as comparing the Comp16 to anything, what I had before was a Meek MQ3. I didn't like the Meek preamp and the compressor took a lot of dialing in. The Comp16 never sounds bad and the presets make it fast and easy to use.
My "good" pre is a DMP3 but I have a Tubepre for bass. After...
I picked up a 635a a while back and have yet to find a use for it. To my ear it sounds thin, boxy, cheap...I've read interviews with Don Dixon and Mitch Easter recommending this mike. What application do you guys use it for?
The useable range is between about zero and .3, anything above that and it's distorted. I'm running the output of a dmp3 into it. I have an lxp-5 that works fine so I assume it was fried when I got it.