ausrock
Well-known member
No more than any of the other mics I listed previously as I checked all my mics with only one XLR and it wasn't until a couple of hours ago that I found the XLR's themselves suffered from variations.
So one conclusion could be that depending on which mic lead you pick up, you may get different degrees of tightness in different mics, add to that the obvious variations in the XLR's and it becomes "pot luck".
I remember years ago when I was doing "live" sound you never knew what you were going to get as the company I contracted to had a large number of mics and leads to pick from...........variations like this were just taken as a matter of course and no-one ever worried about it.
The cause of tightness can be anything from over generous electroplating on components to the XLR pins or sockets being slightly over-sized or out of alignment, as well as a few other causes I can think of. The thing is, this isn't something that happens only with SP mics, it can and does happen with other brands too.
So one conclusion could be that depending on which mic lead you pick up, you may get different degrees of tightness in different mics, add to that the obvious variations in the XLR's and it becomes "pot luck".
I remember years ago when I was doing "live" sound you never knew what you were going to get as the company I contracted to had a large number of mics and leads to pick from...........variations like this were just taken as a matter of course and no-one ever worried about it.
The cause of tightness can be anything from over generous electroplating on components to the XLR pins or sockets being slightly over-sized or out of alignment, as well as a few other causes I can think of. The thing is, this isn't something that happens only with SP mics, it can and does happen with other brands too.
