Presence Booster on AKG C1000s

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Anybody using the "Presence Booster" (little plastic cap that snaps onto top of mic)??? If so, What applications? Thanks... -John
 
I have a C1000S. I tried to use the "cap" once, but the sound became so thin and edgy that I removed it immediately. I have not used it again since then.

I guess the "cap" is a converter to hypercardioid pattern.
 
The cap isn't a Presence Booster, it narrows the capture area of the capsule from cardiod to hyper cardiod. It is usfull if you're trying to reject unwanted crosstalk from other sources but it does color the mic (increased proximity affect making it more boomy). I rarely use them on mine.
 
Mine came with two caps. IIRC, One was a presence booster (as if the C1000 needs that!). The other was a hypercardioid cap. I have the hypercardioid cap on mine permanently. I like how the hypercardioid cap sounds, it changes the high end fairly dramatically.

So, if you put a cap on your C1000 and it sounded thin and edgy, it was probably the presence booster...yuck.

Tom Cram
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I stand corrected Tom. Mine came with one cap each which were definately to narrow the pattern. I'd never even heard of a presence booster. Who'd a thunk it.
 
On the subject of C1000s ...

I have some songs where I recorded drum overheads with C1000s ... it was all I had at the time (they were borrowed, which meant they were the only mics avail. in my budget range) and have since demo'd other mics and like them better ... I ended up purchasing MXL603s for future drum OH use. But, I can't redo these drum tracks ... they're not horrible, but there's a certain "sound" that I can tell is the C1000 coloration, do you know what I'm referring to? (I heard it when A/B'ing these mics with others on other instruments too.)

My question is, have you found any particular frequency ranges that you know you have to cut/boost to tame the characteristic -- the only word I can think of to describe it, unfortunately, is "harsh" -- of this mic? I know it depends largely on use and tracking room acoustics, but maybe there's a common MO when using these.

Thanks,

gg
 
Cut, cut, cut...

Start cutting in the 8 to 10k region, that's where the "splat" that everyone complains about lives. BTW the hypercardioid capsule cuts a lot of this region naturally.

Tom Cram
dbx Senior Technical Support
(801) 568-7530
tcram@dbxpro.com

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."
-Thomas Jefferson-
 
A presence booster for an AKG C1000 is like platform shoes for Shaquille O'Neal, or a padded bra for Dolly Parton! :eek:
 
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