New berringer mic is a rode NT2?!?!

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I was talking to the rep for behringer for the US and he told me that rode manufactures the new behringer mic and shipps them here without the outside shaft and workers here finish assembly so that they can claim that they are made in the usa.

Can anyone confirm this, if so would you reccomend them. The price is like 250.00 compared to 400.00 for the rode.
 
Does anyone have an opinion about this.If its true then you can have an nt2 for only250.00.
 
I have no idea... but personally, there's a certain stigma with the Behringer name that I have a hard time getting around... I'd pay the extra dough for the name NOT to be there! ;)

Bruce
 
The guy at the shop told me a while ago. They are manufactured in the same factory, and it's about the same mic, but behringer has less-quality electonic components. (Resistors etc...)

Actually, what he really told me was: well, the import-guy was here, and showed me the difference, opened both mics. The only difference was that some of those electronic little thingies were in a different color.

I don't know if there are more differences. And I don't know how much the exact values of the components matter in that circuitry. Maybe ask Harvey about it?
 
the good and the bad

A microphone mainly consists of the capsule and little electronic (preamp or impedance transformation).
Even in a computer controlled manufactory there are differences in quality from capsule to capsule. Transistors are also measured and seperated by theire hissing and linearity. Concerning these both parts it is like with good speakers - they are sorted out depending on the frequenzy characteristic and so the resulting mics are of different quality.
If you want to record a single voice you eventually can't say which one is better, but if you like to mic stereo you need two mics who sound very close to each other.
 
I never got to look inside one but if the colors on the resistors were differnt you can be asshured that they are different values and the design is different.

Bruce you can send me one and for only ten dollars Ill grind off the name if it makes you feel better.

I guess you get what you pay for. What do you think of the Octiva 319 on sale for 150.00. Good buy or not?
 
Blue Bear Sound said:
I have no idea... but personally, there's a certain stigma with the Behringer name that I have a hard time getting around... I'd pay the extra dough for the name NOT to be there! ;)

Bruce
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Funny statement coming from someone who owns Behringer gear...
 
Hardly Ametth...

All I have has its place in my arsenal - a noise gate is a noise gate... but it's hardly the gear I reach for first.

But I still haven't figured out what the Ultramizer is good for.... it was a throw-in with another sale and I've never gotten a useful sound out of it.........

I'm more of a gear snob than you - I snub my own gear!

Bruce
 
who cares

For what the Behringer mics will cost, you can almost pick up one of the newer Rode mics (NTK or NT1000) - these are most certainly guaranteed to be better mics then even the NT2. I've had an NT2, and my NTK is better for most vocals now.

RB
 
Different, Ruebarb. Not better. The NT2 is a mic worth having along with the NTK and the NT1000. They all do different and wonderful things. The NT2 definitely still holds its own.
 
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