New Microphone To Me

[moresound]

I was doing sound at a local college last night and a taper set up next to me at the FOH position. Nothing unusual most big name acts allow it at colleges many times as many as 10 to 20 tapers show up with their $5000.+ stereo mic set up (where do they get the money for these) and raise them up 12 feet or so and start recording to there favorite formats.
This guy had an unusual stereo set up the color -yellowish-was nothing I had seen before. After talking to him I became enlighten to a new (to me) mic company Busman Audio
There is a web site and the prices are incredible !!

If anyone has used these or have heard any thing about them please let me know. thanks...... your comments and knowledge will help me to make a decision on the purchases of what seem to be really good inexpensive mics.

 

[mshilarious]

Busman hangs out occasionally at taperssection.com. His mics are generic Chinese OEM types (coated to his spec yellow) that he goes over with some custom modifications--I don't know his specifics, but the usual treatment is better capacitors and maybe a better FET, precision FET biasing, and so forth.

 

[M1Fanatic]

What astounds me is that the management allows recording a live performance with no royalties or other compensation being paid. Even at a college, that strikes me as strange with all of the internet downloading lawsuits popping up from peer sharing.

 

[mshilarious]

What astounds me is that the management allows recording a live performance with no royalties or other compensation being paid. Even at a college, that strikes me as strange with all of the internet downloading lawsuits popping up from peer sharing.

There is a potential issue with mechanical rights when tapers share recordings of band that allows taping/sharing and who performs covers of another composer's work, but generally it's only the bands that disallow taping who will complain to the sharing sites (which are much more open than the usual pirate peer-to-peer sites--they are the good ol' client-server model).

http://www.archive.org/details/etree

 

[M1Fanatic]

Thanks for the reply, even though I read it, I don't think I understood it.

Is the issue with the mechanical rights or intellectual property rights?

 

[moresound]

Busman hangs out occasionally at taperssection.com. His mics are generic Chinese OEM types (coated to his spec yellow) that he goes over with some custom modifications--I don't know his specifics, but the usual treatment is better capacitors and maybe a better FET, precision FET biasing, and so forth.

OK great thanks. Just seems to good to be true (and you know what they say about that) $450. for two matching SDC mics with changeable tops from omni to super-five in all I think per mic, two spiders and travel case. The same with a stereo ribbon mic for $300. Tube mics and LDC.

 

[dgatwood]

Thanks for the reply, even though I read it, I don't think I understood it.

Is the issue with the mechanical rights or intellectual property rights?

Mechanical rights are IP rights. Mechanical rights are the right to make a recording of a performance of a composition. They're licensed by the composer/publisher, often through Harry Fox/Songfile for compulsory mechanical licenses, directly for larger jobs.

 

[mshilarious]

OK great thanks. Just seems to good to be true (and you know what they say about that) $450. for two matching SDC mics with changeable tops from omni to super-five in all I think per mic, two spiders and travel case. The same with a stereo ribbon mic for $300. Tube mics and LDC.

Well the Chinese OEM pricing is quite favorable, and when you don't pay marketing costs and there is no retail markup . . .

 

[moresound]

Well the Chinese OEM pricing is quite favorable, and when you don't pay marketing costs and there is no retail markup . . .

True,True
So your thinking that these mics are no better off than other Chinese mics mod or not mod? and are they worth having in a home recoding / recording studio situation? Or just good for the stereo recording tapers.