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Its something more than the mic, theres no way an sm57 should sound that dead. Start with your snare, what kind of heads have you got on there, are they tight enough, what state are your snares in, are they tight enough. Have you got an 'o' ring or tape on the head to dampen overtones which may...

I think its got something to do with the cold war, I could be wrong though so don't quote me on that.

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I'll have to remember that mic for the next time the devil himself comes to put down a track or two

The 4033 and 4041 are electrets, that was a surprise to me!

The main problem with recording both voice and guitar on the same mic is that you have to back off from the mic, that means that you'll have to turn up the gain which also turns up your room sound. Unless you have a nice space that means you're probably going to need some acoustic treatment...

I hear tony the tiger thinks they're grrrrrr-8

I havn't bought one, there is no reribboning service and steven sank is $120 plus postage so I won't be getting one until I have a good bit more cash to throw around. There are some sound samples here: http://gearslutz.com/board/showthread.php3?s=&postid=241725#post241725 Actually just...

You could build it yourself very easily, the only hard part is boxing it up so that it doesn't look like crap like that lectern version on the site. - I was in college with Tomás Mulcahy, never thought I'd be seeing his big ugly mug on the net

You can get it directly from thomann, carriage to england is £15 for up to 30kgs

Hi Phil, Glad you're still at it, I'm in the middle of my last exams ever (bit of an eternal student). Lundahl may be worth a look, maybe the LL1532? Good luck with it anyway :) Paddy

Theres nothing stellar about the VLZ pres, your money would be far better placed getting better mics, pres, monitors or maybe a recording channel.

No So am I

Since the whole Violet / JZ thing surfaced all Blue have succeeded in producing is a load of ballocks (sorry for pun). I find it hard to believe that the same design team that produced the bottle / baby bottle / dragonfly etc. came up with the 'snowball' - honestly they would do well to divorce...

I think with the two shockmounts and stereo bar that the SC100 II are a better deal. Thomann have an excellent returns policy too.

All the genuine oktavas are brass construcion with tiny flat head screws (nickel plated brass?). I have one ASM oktava that has no serial number but is definitely identical in every way to the other oktava. The chinese version is definitely not made of brass, looks like lacquered steel and uses...

Well you can get them brand new slightly less than soundroom prices http://www.oktava-online.com http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=8258&item=7507106649&tc=photo

For anyone who got suckered by the 'revised' oktavas heres another link http://www.thomann.de/index.html?partner_id=97926&page=thoiw6_artikel-180077.html

Got one, unfortunately not the version with pasteurise :( :p

The most interesting part is this: http://oktava.tula.net/fake/ Definitely look nothing like my oktavas and seem to use the same kind of metal that 797 puts into the B1 vs the brass construction of oktava.