Saw an Oktava ML52 for $199 today

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Sorry. Big mistake here, I only ment to post it once! This computer machine has me confounded! If anyone can delete the redundant post please do so. I tried but for some reason I can't. Thanks, Sincerely, The Village Idiot
 
I wouldn't worry about it. I don't think anybody saw;)

Have you got any links about this mic? I don't think I've ever seen one.

F.S.
 
Have no links. The only other place I saw one was in a Musicians Friend catalog.
 
Where? Give it up. This is your basic $400 ribbon mic.-Richie
 
I saw it at Guitar Center Sunday. Have you heard the mike, if so how do you think it would work as a single O/H mike on drums? I'd like to get a ribbon and try 3 mikes on drums, 1-O/H, 1-kick and 1-snare. I don't like the cymbal sounds with my 2- C1000S on O/H.
 
Sorry, I've never auditioned this mic, and can't make any informed comment about it. Unfortunately, I have no first hand experience with ribbon mics, eccept watching one be destroyed by a wind gust during a live outdoors performance. I've learned a little second hand, and hope to test it out. At that price point, I might buy one just to mess with.
What I've learned second hand is that they are relatively fragile. Don't blow on one, don't drop it, and use a wind screen outdoors.
Some of the older ones in particular can be fried by phantom power, so don't use it. Their signals are reportedly fairly weak, and they profit from a very hot preamp. They don't do well with high SPL's, so it probably is a bad choice for kick, which might do it in. How this thing would work as an overhead, I have no clue.
This mic is fairly new to the U.S., and you probably won't find many people who have first hand experience with it. I wish I could tell you more. If you do buy it, please post your experiences, I bet a lot of people are interested. I know I am.-Richie
 
Thanks Richard, I'm going back Saturday, if it's still on sale I'll try it out.
 
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