Dark mic wanted. No sibilance!

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Has anyone a good digi cam?....Could someone take some good closeups of the 219 for me?
 
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Nice one Big....cheers man! Is it just the picture or is that one ugly lookin' s.o.b.?
 
Do not forget that sibilence is a natural sound that most of us make when we talk or sing.
The problem with some mikes is that they have either a peak in the response or some other feature like resonance that causes the sibilence to be accentuated.

If it is just a rising response then this can very easily be corrected after recording. But if the mic has what is usually known as a metallic like sound then this is the type to steer clear of.

I believe the Rode NT1 is an example of this type of coloration although i have no experience of this mic.
 
hah ... it's one ugly SOB
definitely russian aesthetics ... function over form ;)
one thing this pic doesn't show is the 20dB pad and bass rolloff switches.
 
Thought there was somethin' missin'....I dig the look of the 319 though....very classy....matt black, hey, use it in the studio or stick it in your army kit...
 
What about experimenting with singing into the side and back of the mic? Many not so expensive mics exhibit different frequency responses depending on where you are in the pickup pattern which might minimize the sss enough to your liking.
 
Try tilting the mic.

I found this to help in certain applications.


Malcolm
 
MK219

there are a couple of us that love to mod MK219s.

My 10 year-old 219 has gone through several stages: head grille mod, FET/coupling cap/bias resistor mods/, installation of a 5840 miniature pentode-as-triode tube, removal of the mechanical HF boost discs and finally, sealing the capsule back labyrinth to turn it into an omni.

Quite righteous - a 40 year-old Russian copy of a German capsule converted to omni, phase-improved and installed in an opened-up grille feading a tube headamp.

The second link down is not to be missed. Lulu the Spacecat builds tube mics:


http://home.comcast.net/~michaeljoly/mk219mod.htm

http://home.earthlink.net/~altaflux12ax7/ok_mod/ok_mod.html

http://www.recording.org/cgi-local/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=6;t=001085

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=b...0304050622.2a67420d@posting.google.com&rnum=3
 
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What about the Marshall MXLV67? Isnt that a quality dark mic? Seems like everybodies reccomending it on this board.
 
The V67 (and Studio Projects "C" series) have emphathized top
ends, so they're not of a "dark quality".

Not necessarily good or bad due to that aspect, just a tonal characteristic.

Chris
 
hehe i guess the "flavor" or color people say it has is different. All these terms( dark, warm, colored, blue, etc..) = very confusing to a novice. ;)
 
bosh said:
I recently began recording a cappella songs for my humor-oriented website, and I encode them at a nominal bitrate of 45.0kbps (Ogg Vobis quality setting of -1). At this bitrate, sibilance can sometimes be a bit of problem -- a couple of recordings have ended up sounding just a tad metallic.

I currently use a Shure PG48 that a friend gave me, and it's plugged into Turtle Beach Santa Cruz. I've decided to buy an Audio Buddy and Markertek cables along with a better sound card, but I still have no idea which mic to get.

I'm looking to spend around $100, and I realize that there are about 100 $100 mic threads posted every day. The problem is that many of the recommendations in those threads are for bright mics -- it seems that brightness is considered a desirable characteristic for mics that are used primarily for vocals. Since I'm trying to avoid sibilance, I decided to look for a dark mic, but I'm not having much luck.

The mic I purchase will be used solely for recording vocals and, in addition to avoiding sibilance, I want a mic that isn't prone to popping.

Any suggestions?
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Checkout the Oktava MC-319.
 
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