keith.rogers
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Or, I hope to return it - waiting for the RA as I'm still in the 45 day window.
I got this mic in the hopes of getting a cheaper version of the RE20, or maybe something like an SM7b (still going to try one of those). It looks a lot like the RE20, and probably weighs at least as much, but I have to believe that's about the extent of its similarities. Not saying it's a bad mic, as I haven't done an A/B of it with an RE20, but it sure surprised me with high-end boost and more proximity effect than I was expecting.
But, the thing was, it didn't love my voice, and while I don't record myself singing much, when I do, I like to cringe as little as possible during mixing. This mic didn't deliver there, and made the mix harder with that boost just kicking in right where it accentuated sibilance for me. I don't need something that will make more work for me - jeez, fixing timing and tuning is enough already .
So, just a FYI, here are 4 very short excerpts of something I did yesterday. 1st two (1 & 2) are my AKG c214, 1 is straight via a splitter and 2 is through a GAP Pre73 (also under test/eval). 2nd two (3 & 4) are the RE320, again straight and through the GAP pre73. The GAP seems to do a good job taming this thing, but one of the other things I [thought I] liked about the RE320 is that it has enough gain to not actually require a preamp. Well, yes, but I do think it benefits from it, at least more than the AKG, to my ear.
No EQ, compression, reverb, i.e.,. nothing done whatsover, except levels set as equal as I could with channel gain in the DAW, normalized in the bounce step.
View attachment bluetest1.mp3 View attachment bluetest2.mp3 View attachment bluetest3.mp3 View attachment bluetest4.mp3
I got this mic in the hopes of getting a cheaper version of the RE20, or maybe something like an SM7b (still going to try one of those). It looks a lot like the RE20, and probably weighs at least as much, but I have to believe that's about the extent of its similarities. Not saying it's a bad mic, as I haven't done an A/B of it with an RE20, but it sure surprised me with high-end boost and more proximity effect than I was expecting.
But, the thing was, it didn't love my voice, and while I don't record myself singing much, when I do, I like to cringe as little as possible during mixing. This mic didn't deliver there, and made the mix harder with that boost just kicking in right where it accentuated sibilance for me. I don't need something that will make more work for me - jeez, fixing timing and tuning is enough already .
So, just a FYI, here are 4 very short excerpts of something I did yesterday. 1st two (1 & 2) are my AKG c214, 1 is straight via a splitter and 2 is through a GAP Pre73 (also under test/eval). 2nd two (3 & 4) are the RE320, again straight and through the GAP pre73. The GAP seems to do a good job taming this thing, but one of the other things I [thought I] liked about the RE320 is that it has enough gain to not actually require a preamp. Well, yes, but I do think it benefits from it, at least more than the AKG, to my ear.
No EQ, compression, reverb, i.e.,. nothing done whatsover, except levels set as equal as I could with channel gain in the DAW, normalized in the bounce step.
View attachment bluetest1.mp3 View attachment bluetest2.mp3 View attachment bluetest3.mp3 View attachment bluetest4.mp3