Is this a good mic?

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Sorry, I don't know anything about that one except that it is a condenser mic and therefore I will not use it becasue I don't have isolation to keep out all the extraneous noise.

If you want a survey of some good mics to get, you might want to download this free pdf on how to set up your home studio:

http://www.recordingreview.com/blog/killer-home-recording-setting/

Seems the basic advice is that you are a lot better off owning as many different types of cheap mics as possible. The main differences are between dynamic, condenser, tube, and ribbon mics. An expensive one of those sounds only a little different than a cheap one of those, and you can often use eq or other tricks to make up the difference. From all the interrogator sessions I've listened to on mics, it seems like there is a ot of truth to it, but I don't know for sure. Once in a while I hear a big difference on a certain source, but it's not typically the more expensive mic that wins in those cases.
 
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The link you posted says it's sold out and no more available.

Paul White's review in Sound On Sound is HERE if you want to read it.
 
Sorry, I don't know anything about that one except that it is a condenser mic and therefore I will not use it becasue I don't have isolation to keep out all the extraneous noise.

All mics, whether dynamic or condenser, will pick up sound according to frequency response and polar response. There is no magical feature of dynamic mics that makes them reject noise, except that their lower sensitivity forces you to record close to the source which maximizes signal-to-ambient noise ratio.

Put a condenser *with the same polar pattern* in the same place as the dynamic, and you'll get the same ambient noise.

Seems the basic advice is that you are a lot better off owning as many different types of cheap mics as possible.

I think that's really terrible advice. I'd rather have three decent mics than thirty cheap ones. 'Decent' doesn't have to mean expensive. One reasonable LDC, ideally multipattern, a dynamic, and a pair of SDCs. More dynamics if you need them, but they can all be the same, different mics don't necessarily make anything better.

The main differences are between dynamic, condenser, tube, and ribbon mics.

Tube mics are condenser mics, except for a few dynamic/ribbon weirdos. And technically ribbons are dynamics, but rather different than a moving-coil dynamic.

An expensive one of those sounds only a little different than a cheap one of those, and you can often use eq or other tricks to make up the difference.

And so you can use EQ to make up the difference between thirty flavors of cheap mics, so you don't need all of those flavors.

One thing you can't do with EQ is smooth out a wide variation in frequency response as a function of polar response, so if you are recording a source where off-axis response is important (say anything in stereo), it's really nice to have a mic with a consistent frequency response on- and off-axis.
 
Seems the basic advice is that you are a lot better off owning as many different types of cheap mics as possible.

No, this is very bad advice.

When I started recording I bought the best and most expensive microphones I could afford.

That was actually a pair of Beyer M67n, they cost me the equivalent of a month's wages at the time.

That was in the 1970's - I still have them and I would still use them.

Other microphones I bought new in the mid 1980's are still in current production - they were about £400 each when I bought them and they retail for about £2,000 each now - so I could sell my old ones second-hand for more than double what they were when I bought them.

Good microphones from good manufactures are always a good investment as microphone technology is mature. It's not like a computer which is out of date before you open the box and needs to be replaces every 2 or 3 years.

Good microphones will last 30 or 40 years or more, so it's always best not to skimp and to get the best you can afford.
 
The link you posted says it's sold out and no more available.

I checked it just now and didn't see anything like that. So I put my email address in and it sent me a link to download it, which worked. Whatever happened must be fixed.
 
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