Hey I'm just wondering if there's any noticeable difference between
this:
Behringer B-1 | Sweetwater.com
and...
this:
Blue Microphones Baby Bottle | Sweetwater.com
Just in general, is there any sense of paying that much extra for almost nothing? Are the expensive mics really that much better?
The Baby Bottle has a much better specification than the C 1.
Despite having nearly 5dB better sensitivity than the Berry, the BB is 8.5dB quieter! In fact with a self noise of just 5.5dB it is among the quietest mics in the world. This might not matter if you are 6" off mic and yodelling but for more distant, quiet sources the noise of the C1 will intrude, it would not, for instance be a good mic for speech recording. In fact, for a large, side address condenser mic a sensitivity of 20mV and a self noise level of 13dB are nothing to tell the kids about!
In audio, as with much in life, you get what you pay for...But! There is the Law of Diminishing Returns.
If you take a product such as an Audio Interface then £100 buys you a very good one and you would have to spend 10times that to get any audible improvement and even then most of us would not have good enough sources or monitoring to tell!
Microphones are rather different. If it does the job (and the C1 would in many cases) good enough but they have their sound differences and people have their druthers. Then, some mics flatter some voices and others ***k them.
Past a certain point there is no "better" just different. a Shure SM7b is not "worse" or "better" than a U87 just different. They are both stonkingly good microphones!
Dave.
