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Blue Bear Sound said:It's a "color" mic.... I've used it successfully when I wanted a trashy, muddy, honky, colored sound.
But I would never recommend it to someone (especially a beginner) as a general purpose mic.
Zeke, it's not enough to see something on someone's gear list.... you have to know why they have it and how they use it. Sometimes the reasons a studio has a particular piece are not obvious.
out of curiosity, did you know this about the 2001 before you bought it and felt you needed to add this particular "color", or is there a chance you got a bad mic...and/or have you had/used any other MXL2001's? Realizing there is a couple of questions in there, but I can't believe you'd spend the asking price for the mic just to get a "trashy" sound, which seems to kinda go against your preferences in recording also.
I've got a MXL2001 (actually two) and they both seem pretty identical and are nice $150 mics. I think I've been able to get some good mileage out of them and get some fairly "accurate" results with them. Do I reach for them first..?..nope...but seeing them on Ebay for 50 bucks now, that seems a pretty good deal to me.