Grrove Tubes GT Convertable Mic

[Bob's Mods]

Guitar Center is now carrying the Groove Tubes convertable mic. It has a removable ball that is installed for vocals and removed for mic'ing instruments.
Anyone have any experience with this one? Any thoughts on how it might compare to other GT mics?

Bob the Mod Guy

 

[aspirin]

I got one at GC like 6 months ago. I would say it's quite similar to GT33, which I also own. The literature says it's a FET mic as opposed to class A FET for GT33. The specs are slightly different too. Hyper-cardoid vs. cardoid, self noise etc. With my voice they sound about the same.

I did a 19 mic shootout on accoustic guitar not too long ago, and I threw in the Convertible for a grin. To my surprise the convertible sounded better to me than the GT33. Not that it means a whole lot, I'm sure I screwed up here and there with mic placements and such.

I would say it's worth the $70. I know I know, GC's price is $99, but all you have to do is ask and the price drops to $69