All I can say is WOW!

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After much research here and with good advise from many here on this board I set out to upgrade my meager 4 track set up.

I never intended to mic much as I primarily play bass and guitar and use a drum machine. I primarily wanted to do some songwriting and use my lonely SM 57 for vocals when I used someone (can't carry a tune in an amored truck myself).

Long story short I aquired a VCQ6 and DMP3. Now I have an MXL V-67m and just picked up two MK-012's for stereo etc.

WOW! I have never used condensors before and it's amazing.

Hearing myself breathing through my nose from six feet away in the phones crystal clear blows me away! Now I know why you guys and gals spend so much effort in isolation etc and my stuff (although carefully selected) is still pretty budget level.

I just thought some of you might get a kick out of remembering the first time you used or heard a decent pair of condensors. For mic newbies like myself you have got to work with some of these if you have not done it yet.

Forgive me if I sound like a five year old who caught his first fish but this is new to me!
 
I hear ya man. When I first messed around with my AKG c3000b i was scratching an itch on my leg and I heard it through my headphones like I was rubbing sandpaper next to my ear.
 
Ahh, yes, I remember that feeling well. I got my first condensors (a pair of MXL603s) about nine months ago. So many memories...
 
I hear that... I actually got too excited and forgot to buy dynamic mics
 
My first experience with a condenser I sang through a Neumann at a studio. I remember reaching in my pocket for a cigarette and hearing the crackle of the cellophane on the pack--loud as hell. Sounded like a forest fire!
 
I remember pointing an Oktava mc012 at an accoustic guitar and I think my heart skipped a beat.
 
When I first used an AKG C1000, the first condensor I used, before the take somebody flushed the toilet somewhere else in the house and I heared it trough the headphones, I didn't know what was happening:-).
 
Yeah, It's a beautiful feeling, the same happened to me when I bought my SP C1. I couldn't believe my ears that it was so clear, crisp and transparent. The same when I mic'd my acoustic guitar with my brand-new 603s. I couldn't believe that my guitar could sound so good.
 
Once you get over the great sound you will start spending your time trying to kill all the little noises in the house. Turning off the AC, unplugging the fridge, turning off any fans, that damn running toilet, gag the kids, etc.
 
lol :D

And dont forget gagging your wife! That way you can buy more recording stuff

:o
 
I had a bigger wow factor going from using 4 track pres on my sm57 to a Delta DMP2 than going from the sm57 to a v67....yes the v67 sounds a good bit better than a sm57, but 4 track pres to the DMP2 was night and day.....
 
Ah, reminiscing- I remember tracking my first vocal with AKG Solid Tube, and hearing this thump-thump, thump-thump. No, it wasn't my heart, as I first suspected. It was the cat coming down a carpeted staircase! That's when you discover home recording- "Pet the cat softly dear, and control your breathing." We're going to use the purr track, slightly pitch adjusted, on "Po' Cat Blues"- Ha!-Richie
 
That's for sure!

From whom did you think I heard for the first time of the Marshall v67?

;)
 
TexRoadkill said:
Once you get over the great sound you will start spending your time trying to kill all the little noises in the house. Turning off the AC, unplugging the fridge, turning off any fans, that damn running toilet, gag the kids, etc.
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Ain't that the damn truth! :D
 
flapo1 said:
Jesus, Gidge

How can you manage to get 6,000 posts?
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hmmm... let's see, that's about 2000 posts per year which is 167 posts per month (about 5.5 per day).

Oh,oh! I'm on a pace to beat that... how embarassing! Quick, someone get me a life! :eek:
 
Had the same reaction Scooter.

I had been doing 4 tracking with my trusty Shure 58 and decided to make the big studio upgrade. While I was waiting for my software and computer to arrive I bought a SP C-1 on recommendation by my cousin, who owns his own recording studio. I got it home, grabbed a glass of wine, plugged it into my mackie and into the 4 track just to "test drive" it....

First thing I notice as I turn it up is that it feel's like I have "spidey senses". I become aware that "That 70's show" is on in the living room, I hear a slight buzzing that comes from a light fixture in the closet that was open, I turn my head to look at the 4 track and "BAM BAM BAM" .....I look back to the mike, certain that something had just freaking nailed it and realised that my headphone cord was lightly tapping the middle of the mike stand.

The next day I was telling my drummer (who is also my neighbor)that it was so damn sensitive that I could hear an ant in the corner passing gas. He said "dang....that wasn't an ant....I ate Taco Bell last night! I guess I'd better not talk bad about ya in my place anymore" :D

I had sang in the studio a couple of times, but there the sound is so isolated that I didn't get the same feeling of hearing everything around me so clear, as I got when I plugged that baby in for the first time.
 
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