thajeremy
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Randy....check your PM's....
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JTC111
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The guy has 33 mics and he wants us to tell him what he needs. All right, here's what you need: self-restraint.
33 mics....sheesh!
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wreckd504
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Sounds tricky, maybe choose a friend or relatives home/business address who you are confident won't be moving. Its the same if you ordered from amazon and then moved, there would probably be the same confusion.
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ittam
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The guy has 33 mics and he wants us to tell him what he needs. All right, here's what you need: self-restraint.
33 mics....sheesh!
33 preamps
...?Matti
edit: the 1200 type mic is a good starting point for mic modders
Zetajazz44
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33 preamps
Matti
edit: the 1200 type mic is a good starting point for mic modders
Actually, that's the boat I'm in right now... I only have mediocre preamps at best... and really, other than the quantity, my mic collection isn't anything to wow over either...
I do think that I would be more pleased with some of my mics if I had decent preamps though... Can't wait until this GB is over and I have a new flavor of pre to try...
Randy
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ittam
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Hi!
You have a good variety of mics, no problems
there.
I joined this GB for the pre´s ( sadly only 2 -would need 4 )
as a once in lifetime thing... At these prices it won`t
go overly wrong, and you can modify them by having
better transformers.
I´m so thankfull for Chance for this
Matti
You have a good variety of mics, no problems
there.
I joined this GB for the pre´s ( sadly only 2 -would need 4 )
as a once in lifetime thing... At these prices it won`t
go overly wrong, and you can modify them by having
better transformers.
I´m so thankfull for Chance for this
Matti
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chris carter
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ittam
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Actually, that's the boat I'm in right now... I only have mediocre preamps at best... and really, other than the quantity, my mic collection isn't anything to wow over either...
I do think that I would be more pleased with some of my mics if I had decent preamps though... Can't wait until this GB is over and I have a new flavor of pre to try...
Randy
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I have a 1200isch mic modifyed to something else, everything changed
from capsule to capacitors and have goods to make an other.
The greatest problem here is the lack of really good monitors -to hear
the difference? Anyway next in my list after this GB is something from Genelec,
Adam or Focal
Matti
antichef
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In quality, it's the same, but the quantity of the time period of the group buy makes it more likely for something like this to happen than in most transactions. I don't think it'll happen to me (knock on wood), but I suspect it did happen with one or more participants last time.
But yeah, handling the situations as one-offs, and simply recalculating the shipping fee based on the new address would work (easy for me to say
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apl
Stand Up Comity
How will the orders be logged for the replacement motors and ribbons for the bad ones in the last group buy?
I'd also like to get a shock mount for the ACM-3 I got last time.
Will the 1200 come with a shock mount?
I'd also like to get a shock mount for the ACM-3 I got last time.
Will the 1200 come with a shock mount?
JTC111
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Aside from the transformers, will these pres have opamps too? I'm no techie so that may be a stupid question. This will be my first attempt at modifying anything (except for changing a tube in a mic) and I want to know how much fun I can expect to have.
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ittam
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No opamps here!
As far as I know they are discrete transformer balanced units,
more info somewhere in this thread. -Edit. :
"I thought I mentioned this before, but maybe it's worth repeating. My console in my studio is an A & H Sigma, with 24 of the 32 inputs having 1073 pre amps built into the board. I have grown to love these preamps and with the help of the tech that services my board, took the design of these pres, and reworked and fitted the design into an existing enclosure. We sent it to China for their engineers to study. They built a prototype and sent it back to me. We tested it and made some changes and sent it back. they reproduced the changes and sent it back to me. We again tested it (my Neve tech did all of this) It sounded great (my test) we then approved the electronics and had them re package it into a compact enclosure and they brought the finished prototype, ready for production, to the NAMM show. Me and my tech forfitted going to the NAMM show on Friday to really go thru these 3 pieces of gear. We were so excited at the results, but reluctantly had to return them at the NAMM show on Saturday. The idea was mine, the circuit design was from a well known Neve tech here in LA. I paid him for his time and it was money well spent. We both never thought that these things would be this well made especially for prototypes"
Matti
As far as I know they are discrete transformer balanced units,
more info somewhere in this thread. -Edit. :
"I thought I mentioned this before, but maybe it's worth repeating. My console in my studio is an A & H Sigma, with 24 of the 32 inputs having 1073 pre amps built into the board. I have grown to love these preamps and with the help of the tech that services my board, took the design of these pres, and reworked and fitted the design into an existing enclosure. We sent it to China for their engineers to study. They built a prototype and sent it back to me. We tested it and made some changes and sent it back. they reproduced the changes and sent it back to me. We again tested it (my Neve tech did all of this) It sounded great (my test) we then approved the electronics and had them re package it into a compact enclosure and they brought the finished prototype, ready for production, to the NAMM show. Me and my tech forfitted going to the NAMM show on Friday to really go thru these 3 pieces of gear. We were so excited at the results, but reluctantly had to return them at the NAMM show on Saturday. The idea was mine, the circuit design was from a well known Neve tech here in LA. I paid him for his time and it was money well spent. We both never thought that these things would be this well made especially for prototypes"
Matti
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Zetajazz44
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The SM57 & 58's are mostly used for live sound... I do that on occasion too... At one time I thought I was going to be recording a drum set, which I'd never done,...and still haven't, and I bought the Red5 mic set, 5 in all, after hearing the "good" stuff about them on this board...and the price wasn't too bad either... They're still in the case..never used. Bought a matched set of the Rode NT5's to record acoustic guitar in the studio with and used them live one time for a bluegrass show and liked them so much that I bought 2 more... Since I liked the Rode mics, I thought I'd try one of their LDC's...and along came the K2... The TLM-103 was used, and I got a decent deal on it, and bought it...used, as it was a stage mic at the Grammy's about 4 years ago... Came with case, shockmount...
Just picked all of them up over the years...here and there... AND I forgot to add one to my list too: AT Pro37R, that I use when I play acoustic fiddle on stage... So I guess I've got 34 mics in all... Also been thinking about replacing the Shure 58's with Shure Beta 87A's, for live use...but those are a little pricey...
As I said before, I have quantity, but the quality isn't something that I'm particularly blown away with...
My dream mic is a Neumann U47...but I doubt I'll ever have my grubby hands on one of those...
Randy
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JTC111
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My dream mic is a Neumann U47...but I doubt I'll ever have my grubby hands on one of those...
Randy
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Mine is a U67 but I think they're a myth... kinda like a unicorn.
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ittam
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rockinrocker
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is this one of the group buy mics?
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ittam
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No, but 1200 is similiar with smaller body
diameter, my educated guess.
Matti
diameter, my educated guess.
Matti
JTC111
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Ahhh.... so now I know where the GB 73 design came from, but where did the 81 and 84 design come from?
RightOnMusic
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the neve 1073, 1081, and 1084 have the same preamps, just different EQ sections.
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djbrough
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High Folks,
I'm new to this forum (and to group buys), but I've sat here and read this entire thread. This is incredible. Big thanks to Chance, Randy, and everybody else who is making this possible. I just signed up on the group buy page today. Has Chance already announced a cut-off date via e-mail? If so, when is it. I don't want to be left out. A couple of ACM-3's and a 73 (or two) look like a great "investment".
On a side note, does anyone know what Edcor tranny is most like the Carnhill's found in old '73's?
I'm new to this forum (and to group buys), but I've sat here and read this entire thread. This is incredible. Big thanks to Chance, Randy, and everybody else who is making this possible. I just signed up on the group buy page today. Has Chance already announced a cut-off date via e-mail? If so, when is it. I don't want to be left out. A couple of ACM-3's and a 73 (or two) look like a great "investment".
On a side note, does anyone know what Edcor tranny is most like the Carnhill's found in old '73's?
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