rob aylestone
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While I've been marooned over christmas, I've been planning some of the projects coming up and while doing it have a few unusual mics to add to my collection - and do some videos about. I have a little list of things to watch out for , and even keep an eye on hire company clear outs.
A few things have annoyed me for a while. I like AKG mics and have some 451s, and the shorter extension tubes, but these are about a foot long and still show up in videos. I do a fair bit of opera recording in churches, choirs and singers with orchestras and I hate how ugly our normal mics are - especially side fire ones. The really long AKG tubes that allow the preamp to be near the floor and the capsule at lip level are going for really silly prices - a typical mic and capsule, 30+ years old goes for at least £250, and people seem to want of £300 for a single extension tube. However, the JTS FGM-170 with the shorter stand suddenly popped up as a one-off clearance so I bought a couple. They have a carbon fibre tube, so are very thin, which will be ideal for video work. I've heard good things about these - and I'll give them a go. I've managed to find a couple of AKG goosenecks too, and in an auction of old broadcast gear I found an AKG D222 - the dual capsule more modern version of the D202, which I also have. They've been delivered to home and my wife is fed up of the parcels.
Lots of exciting things to try when I get the studio up and running again.
I mentioned I am a bit disillusioned with my A77 Revox, but I've had an idea - I have somewhere an old Shure Unisphere, that will go into the revox - I'll do a recording of guitar or something direct to tape and we can hear what the 16 year old me really could record in my bedroom all those years ago and see how it compares with modern mics direct to the DAW!
A few things have annoyed me for a while. I like AKG mics and have some 451s, and the shorter extension tubes, but these are about a foot long and still show up in videos. I do a fair bit of opera recording in churches, choirs and singers with orchestras and I hate how ugly our normal mics are - especially side fire ones. The really long AKG tubes that allow the preamp to be near the floor and the capsule at lip level are going for really silly prices - a typical mic and capsule, 30+ years old goes for at least £250, and people seem to want of £300 for a single extension tube. However, the JTS FGM-170 with the shorter stand suddenly popped up as a one-off clearance so I bought a couple. They have a carbon fibre tube, so are very thin, which will be ideal for video work. I've heard good things about these - and I'll give them a go. I've managed to find a couple of AKG goosenecks too, and in an auction of old broadcast gear I found an AKG D222 - the dual capsule more modern version of the D202, which I also have. They've been delivered to home and my wife is fed up of the parcels.
Lots of exciting things to try when I get the studio up and running again.
I mentioned I am a bit disillusioned with my A77 Revox, but I've had an idea - I have somewhere an old Shure Unisphere, that will go into the revox - I'll do a recording of guitar or something direct to tape and we can hear what the 16 year old me really could record in my bedroom all those years ago and see how it compares with modern mics direct to the DAW!