MXL V67B = $89 at sam ash

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Of course your right Slack. According to 8th St. policy, I've got 30 days to reurn it, no questions asked. I'd just have to open it up again and "re-break" it.;)

Cool idea on the fake mics! It reminds me of when cell phones were first becoming popular, I saw an add for fake cell phones for $9.99 so you could look cool driving around with one in your car.

Totally Madison Ave.;)

Twist
 
Slackmaster2K said:
Somebody should make some cool fake microphones...like with no electronics inside at all, just the shell. Sell em for 10 bucks and I bet they'd go like hotcakes!
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That Is !! a cool idea. I wonder how much it would take to actually make one. "Hey check out my mic cabinet !".

What about fake guitars for all those singers who can't really play
but need to look cool on stage?
 
And fake faceplates (Focusrite, Great River, Avalon, Manley) that you can slap onto the front of your Behringer and Bellari premaps to make them look pro in your rack.
 
Focusrite already sells fake faceplates for their "red" line - for a couple of hundred dollars!!! I'd love to find out how many they actually sell!

Chess, given what you were comparing the MC012's to, I now understand why they sounded dark. A solar flare would be "dark" next to those two mics!
 
>>Somebody should make some cool fake microphones

or a nice shell, with the bare minimum old tape recorder mic inside that works, but still sucks. Or, the way people like certain quaint, antique, or cute things with like, personality, or an interetsting "quality" or idiosyncracy (esl) it might actually get some good reviews and sales....

Hey, maybe i'll dig up one of those old tape recorder mics and try it out with my DAW. :) I just bought my own sales hype.
 
>>Apparently the glue gave out, and the lollipop became dislodged.

If you returned it, they would just re-glue it and resell it. For the price, they won't run it thru a test to check for the right freq. response and sound characteristics. A mount of the element - how much could that change anything anyway? As long as it is in the same position.

Anyway if you do return it, make note of the serial number on the unit. or put a spot on the ciruit board. You don't want the same one back....
 
I ordered an instrument mic from 8th street.

When I wanted to return it,I was told I could only if it wasn't used for vocals.
So I guess they won't take any vocal mics back.
And it took them a month to recredit my card.

Glad I only bought an instrument mic from them.
Too bad,I was looking foward to trying some vocal mics out.

Sam ash on the other hand took a vocal mic back with no problem,
I had to take a store credit,which is o.k.
(I physically went to the store though.)

Pete

BTW-I bought the $89 V67,I really love the sound of it.
Really good on vocals,for my voice,and really adds some "warmth" on acoustic guitar mixed with a 184.
It seems to sound better through my DBX mini pre than the Mackie pre's for some reason,that's a first!
 
Bought an M37 from 8th Street Music

Hi. I recently got an M37 from 8th street. Chessrock spoke so highly of it, I had to give it a shot. Anyway I am quite pleased with it. I did a side by side comparison with an AT 4033 and it performed quite well. Also, I got in contact with another tech at CAD. He confirmed that the M37 and M177 are virtually identical. He said they have the same internal electronics and all the same specs (there were 2 different sets of specs going around which made things a little confusing - Musician's friend page is different than the CAD site). Here is the email response that I got:

Tim
The M37, M177 have a max SPL of 143dB with pad on. The CAD177 is our label
and the M37 is one we labeled for Guitar Center. The GA M37 is now available
to anyone. The specs on these 3 mics are all the same. The circuit boards in
all 3 are the same.


Duane Gregg
Senior Technician

I am not sure if they have the same diaphram - I didn't ask. Overall, I think it is a very good deal and a very nice microphone.
 
Until I read this,I was was seriously considering the CADs mentioned. "The M177 and M179 require phantom power between 24V and 48V (although some CAD literature suggests they can accommodate 52V supplies as well), but with a whopping 8mA supply current! This is well over twice what most other condenser mics require. The Sennheiser MKH80 and AKG C414 require only 3mA and the Neumann U87 a mere 0.8mA, for example. High supply current can cause problems in badly designed equipment, or where poor-quality mic cables are being used, because of voltage losses. If a lot of current is drawn from a poor phantom power supply, its output voltage is likely to sag below the nominal 48V, making it more likely that the microphones will lack headroom and suffer transient distortion. It is also possible that, even if the CAD mics don't suffer as the phantom voltage droops, other mics powered from the same supply may be affected — something to watch out for when using a full complement of mics on a mixer with a small power supply. Also, the inherent resistance of mic cables means that the greater the current flowing, the more phantom voltage is lost in the cable itself, with the same end results.

Although I didn't experience any obvious problems testing these mics with a range of mic preamps with internal phantom supplies, I was careful to use good-quality mic cables and to keep cable runs as short as possible. In general I would be very wary of using large numbers of high-current mics together, powered from the same supply, or at the ends of long cable runs." Since I just ordered an AW16G DAW I have major doubts the built in preamps could hanle this CAD mic. Any Thoughts? Here is the full review http://www.sospubs.co.uk/sos/oct01/articles/cadmics.htm
 
So, you guys like the m37 better than the v67?
I'm asking because I am about to order my first pre-amp and mic. I have $200 to spend and I've pretty much decided on the audio buddy pre. The mics I'm looking at are the cad m37, mxl v67, and sp b-1. This mic is going to be used for recording electric guitar and male vocals (probably some acoustic guitar too).
Hey actually this is my second mic, the first one I bought was a sky sek-14 (really cheap) dynamic mic.

oh yeah, does the audio buddy have enough phantom power to run the m37?
 
That_Abbott,Just from reading the post above it makes me feel like we would have to have one heck of a beefy preamp with the CAD M37=M177.I dont think a super budget pre like the audiobuddy would cut it but I'm waiting for someone else to chime in on this one also.
 
That_Abbott,

I just got a 67,I love it.
I don't know if it would be the best choice for your all around first mic though.
Seems to me to be geared more towards a warm/vocal acoustic kind of sound.
Don't know how it would do on an electric.

Some of the people around here who have the 67 and B-3 seem to like the B-3 better,for general recording.
I don't know the Cad.

Not trying to influance your decision,just my 2 cents. :)
Since you can't demo them,thought it might help.

Why don't you do a search on all three,and look for mp3's recorded with them.
Might give you some idea of the different sounds.

Pete
 
audio buddy and v67 looks like a good deal. I like the 2 channels of the preamp. I searched on preamp and got like 57 pages or something.

the Art pres look good, nice price too, but the small ones are only 1 channel.

I'm also trying to figure out a condensor and preamp combo. I'll need phantom power anyway, so why not get preamp, right?
 
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