Rode NTK, NT4, and NT5

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Anyone have any comments on these mics? I'm more or less decided on buying the NTK, and thinking about the NT4. Mostly just curious about the NT5. Let me know if you have any experience with any of them and what you have liked or disliked.

Thanks!
Peter
 
I have the NTK im completely satisfied with it.
The mic is great.
 
The NT5 pair is great - good for stero sources but you have versatility to split them up (eg. Drum OHs or Conga Drums - Room Mics etc ). The NT4 - why ? unless your recording a huge amount of dedicated stero sources - in which case you would probably buy something much more expensive ? The NTK - well I'm about to buy one (or maybe two - I have a bit of a thing for owning pairs of mics).
 
Love my NTK. I used it on everything for a while...because it was the only mic I had. Really doesn't sound bad on anything.
 
I've got the NT-5's as well as a K2... I love them all... Nothing I can say bad about any of them... I do agree with another poster in this thread that I'd go for the NT-5's over the NT-4 for flexibility reasons... In a nutshell...Can't go wrong with the NT-5's or the K2... I've never used any other Rode mics... :(
 
I have the NT5's and love them. I don't know what the guy in that review that Han posted was talking about...maybe he got a bad pair?? They sound amazing on cello, great on ac guitar, and very good on piano. I have yet to use them as drum overheads (I've been using LDC's for that lately).

And I would have to agree with JamesPierce - I don't see much point to the NT4. If you really need to record a ton of stereo maybe, but even then, with the NT4 you can't chose between ORTF or spaced pair or M/S or XY. You get one stereo "trick" and that's it. The NT5's are great for stereo, and you can pick whatever technique you want to use (well, you'd need a figure-8 for M/S but you know what I mean), and you can split them up for other things as well.
 
NT5 is more versatile than the NT4, but there are advantages to the NT4. Like being (obviously) much faster to setup when you wanna track in x/y.

Fast, reliable results can be priceless in a studio.
 
I've used a matched pair of NT5's for a classical gig, and I didn't care much for them. Decent detail for the money, but a hyped high end that is really unpleasant on violin.

In the lower price ranges though, there are not a lot of mics without this problem :)
 
I love my NT5's, used mainly for xy recording in large halls. Absolutely fantastic for large choral ensembles.
 
The NT4 is wonderful for no-fuss, no-muss live recording. Convenience is valuable!
 
The NT4 is great as an OH mic, btw. And superfast to setup.
 
...another "bigup" for the NT4's...more versatile than you might think...great on drums, acoustic guitar, live recording and even vocals (duets...very unique sound)...well worth the investment!
 
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