octava MK219??

[SilentSound]

has anyone used this mic? i can buy one for 99.95 at a local music store. good deal? worth it as a room mic? thanks!

matt

 

[formerlyfzfile]

Not so good a deal.

Guitar Center was blowing them out at like 49 or 59 buch just a while back and now the are (or just were) selling the 319 at 2 for 100.

I'm not sure how it sounds though as I've not used one.

I've read that the grills on the 219's are very roughly cut and by filing and smothing the grill screen you can smooth up the response of the mic.

Tedeous work though.

-mike

 

[PinkStrat]

MK219

A friend of mine gave me one of these MK219s (from the GC specials) about six weeks ago & mine does not sound particularly bad. Maybe I was lucky & he wasn't with his other MK219? From what is said here you gotta go and check them out one by one to make sure you don't get a lemon. I've was told that the MK319 is a lot better sounding than the MK219 so you might want to get the MK319 instead. That said, I might go pick up a pair of MC012s to use for drum OHs. when they go back down to $99 a pair.

 

[cominginsecond]

Ask littledog how he feels about the 219.

 

[crazydoc]

i can buy one for 99.95 at a local music store. good deal?

NO.
You can get the 319 now for $50 at GC if you play it right.
If you can get the 219 for $25 somewhere, pick up one and try this:
http://home.earthlink.net/~altaflux12ax7/index.html

 

[Richard Monroe]

I can get the 219 from GC for $36, but why? I can get the 319 for $50, and it is generally a better mic. Quality control can be questionable at best with the cheaper Oktavas, so I don't doubt there are 219's that sound good. Then there's Littledog's. Oktava's like a box of chocolates...Richie

 

[bongolation]

has anyone used this mic? i can buy one for 99.95 at a local music store. good deal?

No. Go for the MK-319 or the MK-012 for $50 at GC, as the deals are available (the $50 price is off and on again).

I have a couple of MK-219s here that I got back before the other Oktava microphones got really cheap, and they're serviceable units that are free of most of the known problems earlier Oktavas had. They are reasonably well-matched, but really do sound substantially different from the MK-319s I have here, which surprises me as I wasn't expecting anything so noticeable between microphones that are alleged to be the same save for the housings.

 

[Richard Monroe]

What that should tell you is that the housing is critical to the sound of a mic.-Richie

 

[chaser1023]

you can get it for less ...I got it for 69 and the bigger 319 with shock mount was 99.