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i just bought an aea r92. i am about to go out to the studio to give it a run through. will let you all know how it goes.
Okay. I am expecting to be jealous.

i just bought an aea r92. i am about to go out to the studio to give it a run through. will let you all know how it goes.
ok, well, i think i am in love. i plugged my r92 in to my la610. played my tele through my vox ac30. it was like buttah. pretty much the best guitar tone i have gotten. i turned the back side toward the amp and put the brighter side facing out in to the room. i just sat in the control room for 2 hrs playing my guitar. felt like the first time...![]()
i will get to try it as room mics for drums, and on vocals on thursday, will report back..
58 dB is about right - after what you have said I will definitely add +70 dB as a requirement.
The avalon is pretty quiet but I always figured it was best paired with a good condensor..
Thanks for all the advice.
thanks for that - I am reasonably confident in the sontronics being able to do okay on the avalon - but I am likely to expand my ribbon collection and I have been lead to believe that the sontronics is different in that it uses phantom power amongst other things..needing less gain etc...Hey there perceive
The high gain switch on the VT737 might be able to give the pres the extra kick required to get sound from a ribbon mic.
Just did a quick search and came up with this review of a sontronics ribbon mic being successfully used with a VT737 (no indication if high gain was used though, and going from the Avalon into a Neve desk may also had something to do with it)
http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/page/shop/reviews/product_id/8645
Anyhoo, just thought I'd let you know
Dags
thanks for that - I am reasonably confident in the sontronics being able to do okay on the avalon - but I am likely to expand my ribbon collection and I have been lead to believe that the sontronics is different in that it uses phantom power amongst other things..needing less gain etc...
However other ribbons may not act so "nicely".. but again thank you very much for the info!
I edited my original text while you were posting - apologies.
It looks as though 58dB is the max output with high gain switch in.
Bummer, eh?
Good luck with your quest for getting your hands on a more suitable preamp!
Dags
I was pretty sure that 58dB was about it...
The preamp I have ordered is:
http://www.sebatron.com/products/cygnusx2.htm
Hopefully it will turn up Friday.![]()
I am very much hoping so - unfortunately it won't turn up this week now - I really hope it is here by next weekend as I am not working. yay.Sweeeeeeeeet
70dB should pretty much nail anything that gets plugged into it.
He used to have a whole lotta trippy experimental sound manglers available as well, but it looks like he's stopped making them.
Nothing like a new toy to get the creative juices flowing
Hope it arrives in time for you to spend all weekend noodling around with it perceive!
Dags
I am very interested in all the setups people have in regards to ribbons and the more information the more i will be assured that I will have a good selection to choose from!
The Karma K6 gets good press around here, but are Karma mics the same Chinese as everybody else's? They have a different body structure, so I would imagine they are made elsewhere, but I can't seem to find any info on Karma's website regarding this topic.
I noticed the design and packaging of the Cascade Fathead, Nady RSM4 and Thomann T.Bone RM700 is identical but the Fathead uses a 2.5 micron ribbon and the Nady uses a 6 micron ribbon. Am I right in thinking that the 2.5 micron ribbon in the Fathead would be better than the 6 micron ribbon in the Nady?
They're a guitar shop in Cupertino, CA, a few blocks from where I work. They do some design work, then send it to China (I think) for manufacturing, get prototypes back, try them out, tweak them, etc. until they like what they have.
AFAIK, they are probably manufactured by Alctron, Shanghai shuaiYin, or 797 Audio, if that's the question. Are they identical to anybody else's mics... probably close, but not identical, just as our group buy mics are very similar to some Karma, Nady, Cascade, etc. mics.