MXL v69 vs. Blue Baby Bottle

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Any thoughts on these two? I really want the Baby Bottle, it looks so cool.. :) But the v69 is almost half the price.

I will be using a DMP-3 pre-amp and will be recording mostly Pop vocals and guitars with it.
 
Never used the v69, but I have the BB as well as a KSM27 and AT3060, and I consider the quality of those three to be very high--albeit three very different sounds, which was the idea. The BB especially is dead quiet, and the tone is very mellow.
 
Mach5 said:
cool thanks for the input!

anyone else have the v69?
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Very nice but colored sounding mic, perform a search here and you'll find a lot about the V69.
 
The Baby Bottle, while lacking extreme high end, has a upper / midrange "bite" to it that works well on some acoustics, cabs etc. and some vocals.

The V69 is smoother, a tad dark and would probably sound better on more vocalists vs. the Bottle.

Baby Bottle if you'll be using more for instrument work, V69 if using for more vocal work.

You say guitar work, do you mean electric or acoustic? Neither of those mics may be the ultimate choice unless you mean electric, the V69 would handle that well but I wouldn't reach for it on acoustic guitar most times.

War
 
I've used the M69 on some distorted guitars where we were looking for a fatter/thicker sound but sounded just too heavy for acoustic.

Voice, sometimes yes sometimes no. Just depends.

I've got a Dragonfly different mic all-together...seems just the opposite. Quite a bit brighter. No blue bottle experience here.

sjl
 
ok, what if i throw the Dragonfly into the mix with the other two... would anyone choose it?

I will be recording both electric and acoustic guitars.
 
electric, acoustic, and voice? man, thats a tough one.

i would get the bottle.
 
Bottom line for me is, I can't do it all with any one mic. The DragonFly is a completely different animal.
 
I don't know the Dragonfly, but if it's real bright then I would find it tiring on all those tracks. The BBottle is like a condenser in disguise, it doesn't beat you on the head with presence.

I haven't actually decided where the BBottle fits in--I have a lot of vocal mics, and nothing beats my SM81 on acoustic. I don't record guitar amps.

But if you held a gun to my head and demanded all my mics save one, I'd probably keep either my Beyer M88 or the BBottle. Maybe you'd be nice and let me keep both.
 
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