Mics and Preamps.....Guitars and Guitar amps...

[DrewPeterson7]

Drew,
the warm 14 is been on my mind.
the AKG414 XLS Im test driving is cool kit, but verdict out, and several podcasters mentioned really liking that 214 surprisingly which isn't even a traditional capsule and more like a 3000 or something electret but sounds-really good. they repeated..so I wanted to try that one.

still I like Warms goal...to try their Vintage inspired mics, in their Price vs a $$$$$$$$$ AKG414 brass cap with transformer....is not happening for my wallet.

grabbed 214 $200+....414 was $749...but has mint condition kit with it, and papers etc..the P420 Rich mentioned is working for me as is but I might grab another on the clearance, $159 is a nice kit and I have the Mod capacitors.

Probably do a WA14 next for curiosity sake....

Yeah that was my thinking - I got a matched pair of the SE's for quite a bit less than a single AKG would have cost me. In a vacuum I'd certainly prefer to buy the real thing over even a good knockoff/replica... but I'm mostly an electric guitarist, so dumping several grand into my acoustic signal chain is... not a priority.

WA14 was very nice, though - a little cheaper than the SEs, whcih I preferred, but if I didn't already own them I'd have been very happy with how that thing sounded on my acoustic.