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Ok, after reading the GS thread i concede :( Unfortunately it all seems based on bad build quality and cheap components. I read a couple of good reviews on other websites but the sheer amount of hate for it on GS took me aback.

Was it the same one that said Adam monitors suck, new Neumanns are the worst mics ever, and why do you need any other mic when you've got an SM7b? :D Yeah, tbh i was imagining their stuff in the kind of ART/Mackie/Presonus range of gear. I'd been looking at their 1 space 500 rack, the 3 space...

That's the thing, neither do i! i really want to think that they're alright; perhaps not "great" but good enough. They've certainly got a couple of unique products that have caught my eye and their move into 500 series stuff makes me think that they've got something more to them than just super...

There's also the SM Pro EP84 which is looks like essentially the same unit but with phantom power, low cut, -20dB pad, phase invert, and an insert point on each channel, but the in's are all on the front and there's no metering from what i can see, plus i can't help but feel that they probably...

What about the Presonus Digimax D8? The Xmax pre's are pretty cool and unlike the focusrite all the mic in's and out's are on the back. Phantom power is in blocks of 2 rather than 4 (although annoying the phantom power switches are on the back!) but still no low cut or phase invert. Or the ART...

Well, as you started this thread with this; I'd say a ribbon mic is definitely worth a go :) The high end on ribbons is much smoother than most condensers and the low end can be really big and ballsy (that's why i love them on acoustic guitars). Tbf, as we said earlier, if you don't like the...

As kip said, the shape and grill design are a big part, but they also added some of their new patented technology to the X1R so that it has a better high frequency response. This is what sE say about it. The R1 is a pretty cooly mic for drum overheads and electric guitar amps but those are the...

Pfft, SM58, it's all about the SM7b for rapping :D

Lol, you don't need two mics at all, one mic would be more than absolutely fine, we're just explaining what M/S is and why it can be cool and with a ribbon mic in collection you're already half way there if the mood should take you

I know the Focusrite Octopre MKii has a digital output, but it does also just have 8 analogue outs and the pre's sound pretty cool

This is what kip means by M/S (mid/side). In short it's a method of stereo micing where you use one mic with a cardioid pattern as the "mid" (pointed directly at the centre of the sound), and then a mic with a fig.8 polar pattern (like the vast majority of ribbon mics) at a 90 degree angle to...

Alan, you honestly have the best anecdotes and i genuinely love reading them :thumbs up: (they entertain me considerably better than late night tele!) I'll also second the "it's less an issue of what you've got as how you use it". One of, if not the best drum sound i ever got was a couple of...

I had the same issue on a project i worked on recently where a couple of notes in a phrase got lost (it was this little pre-chorus bit and the it was the lower notes that got lost). We ended up using a combination of volume automation and compression, with the compressor automated only to come...

No idea why the price dropped, but my guess is that it just wasn't selling at £299 (which, tbf, is quite pricey when you consider the condenser version is only £119 and that went up from £99). I asked the same question to my mates when i first saw the price drop (we're a bunch of sE fans) and we...

And that, i'm afraid, it's the hardest part of it all :( Maybe it's just my neck of the woods but trying to find a music store within 50 miles of my home that stocks any of the mics i want to try is nigh on impossible. Alot of the time i have to resort to hunting around the internet for audio...

Tbf, nowadays there are a handful of half decent ribbon mic's under £300 but they do vary in quality and sound and, as paul said, out of the £300 there is a quite big leap to the Royer price range (and quality). At the lower rungs price wise there's the Alctron HRM-8b which is about £70 (the...

Tbf, looking at them and reading the specs there don't seem to be that many differences, although the drivers for the Alesis are apparently hit and miss (i think it doesn't come with it's own dedicated drivers and just uses asio4all). Saying that the Alesis does have SPDIF in and out which could...

Tbf the Yamaha Audiogram 6 looks good enough, but in the same price range are the Alesis IO2 (£79) and the Tascam US122 (£69) so it may be worth having a read up on those and seeing what you think. In terms of mics, i've not tried the AT2035 so can't really comment but, again, in the same price...

Strangely enough, because of this thread i remembered i have Flux Bittersweet (i grabbed it a while back after i moved computers and it turned out my licence for SPL Attacker was for one machine only and if i wanted it again it was £40 of something!) and have used it over the weekend to tame...

For PC's this may be totally true (i've not used a PC for audio in about 8 years), but on Mac's you can set up an "aggregate device" with which you can connect several interfaces together to utilise all or the selected in's and out's and the computer essentially sees the aggregate device as the...