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acorec said:
No! again. Studio Projects has their own engineers who design their mics. They CONTRACT the chinese factory to build what they designed from schematics and blueprints.
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Who were the engineers that designed the the B and C series mic's?
 
danshi said:
No ! SE Electronic and Studio Projects are all design by China plant . Amarican just stick their label on them...
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Really? How do you know this? More evidence please...

Seriously, I'm not disputing this statement, just pointing out that it needs more validity than that of a newbie just popping in making it.:)
 
Flatpicker said:
...They're both overseeing the process and “farming out” the work to manufacture their own custom design...
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That should have read "...to manufacture to their own custom specifications."
 
Flatpicker said:
Really? How do you know this? More evidence please...

Seriously, I'm not disputing this statement, just pointing out that it needs more validity than that of a newbie just popping in making it.:)
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My English is poor .

Because I just 5 miles from the manufacture of SE , and I offen go into the plant . This manufacture give many mics to several labels in USA , Germany , British .

SE just give some idea and quality request to them , then they design and manufacture mics .

I can't say any more , these are business secret .
 
crazydoc said:
Hey, I'll buy it from you for $50 - I don't have one, and I mean, like wow, a tube mic for $50! Let me know where I can pick it up!
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$50 is my last resort sale price but if you want to go $100 without the case it's a done deal. Includes shock mount. I can PM you my address and you can pick it up this weekend.
 
danshi said:
No ! SE Electronic and Studio Projects are all design by China plant . Amarican just stick their label on them .

Rode is design and manufacture by Australia .
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Hello again danshi,

Please tell us who were the engineers that designed the Studio Projects mic's?

It's nice to have people from China here to help us know the truth about Chinese made mic's. Thank you.
 
DJL said:
Hello again danshi,

Please tell us who were the engineers that designed the Studio Projects mic's?

It's nice to have people from China here to help us know the truth about Chinese made mic's. Thank you.
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I don't know . The manufacture made Studio Projects is in Beijing . The manufacture made SE Electronic is in Shanghai . I live in Shanghai .

In fact , in China , the technic of mic is not bad . Remember China has the best vacuum tube in the world . The only problem is "consistency" (the same mic has different quality) . Quality control is not good enough .
 
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This morning at the counter of the local roadhouse for breakfast, your "sizzly" comment haunted me . . .

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danshi said:
My English is poor .

Because I just 5 miles from the manufacture of SE , and I offen go into the plant . This manufacture give many mics to several labels in USA , Germany , British .

SE just give some idea and quality request to them , then they design and manufacture mics .

I can't say any more , these are business secret .
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It's pretty obvious who's using the Shanghai mic design - US: SE, Marshall, and the clones we've already covered; Germany: Behringer, obviously!; British: (I didn't think they used ANYTING but their own ) the old Joe Meekaphone? Redd? Are you saying there are others besides those? Ones that aren't so obvious that we'd know about?
 
danshi said:
I don't know . The manufacture made Studio Projects is in Beijing . The manufacture made SE Electronic is in Shanghai . I live in Shanghai .

In fact , in China , the technic of mic is not bad . Remember China has the best vacuum tube in the world . The only problem is "consistency" (the same mic has different quality) . Quality control is not good enough .
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So, back to my original question about Studio Projects mics not being designed by them - If they're in Beijing and you're in Shanghai, how do you know about them? Just curious.

By the way danshi, for what it's worth, I know China’s Q.C. isn’t always the best, but I also know a lot of companies don't want to pay for it, either. Quality Control is free, but it’s not cheap. In other words, it cost nothing extra to build something right in the first place, but it’s terribly extra expensive to keep folks from building it wrong. That’s true anywhere in the world, not just China.
 
DJL said:
Who were the engineers that designed the the B and C series mic's?
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I forget all their names, but Brent is one of them. Alan has stated how his company works at the "other" forum and Brent and Stephen Paul come to mind as people who help design his mics. Studio Projects may use the basic "vanilla" mic package and tweak them 'till they work better. This does constitute a design.
The chinese mic manufacturers do make their version of their design and sell them to anyone who will put up the bucks for it.
You can sit in your livingroom watching TV and have mics made to their design with your logo on it. Studio Projects does much more in the design, and quality control as well as distributorship.
The guy sitting in his livingroom sells to "store X" and drop ships from china with his LABEL on the box. The store gets all the good ones, all the bad ones and everything in between. This sounds like Oktava, no?

I have no Studio Projects mics and no vested interest in their company's products. I just let people know how this stuff works as I have been involved in design and manufacturing (for DBX, Kintek and Lexicon) as well as many other types of products for over 22 years.
 
danshi said:
No , Behringer mic is made by Beijing 797 Audio Co., Ltd .
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Whoops!! I knew that! Doh! I can be an idoit, sometimes.:p

Hmmmmm Which German compay could it be...:D
 
acorec said:
I have been involved in design and manufacturing (for DBX, Kintek and Lexicon) as well as many other types of products for over 22 years.
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Cool! :cool: I didn't realize that. What does Kintek do? I've not heard of them.
 
Flatpicker said:
Cool! :cool: I didn't realize that. What does Kintek do? I've not heard of them.
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Kintek was an offshoot of DBX. We were designing and manufacturing pro theater systems with 500 watt amplifiers and DBX encoder/decoders. This was before THX and any of the other systems out there. The company is now defunct and I have no idea where they ever sold thos systems. The old DBX stuff (1970s) that are legendary now make me cringe when I hear them. They never worked as intended. They were SUPPOSED to be totally transparent. But, the studio engineers latched on to the "pumping" and "breathing" and the severe compression as effects that sounded cool. All the old DBX units that people are paying big bucks for today, I threw in the dumpster in the 70s.
 
acorec said:
I forget all their names, but Brent is one of them. Alan has stated how his company works at the "other" forum and Brent and Stephen Paul come to mind as people who help design his mics.
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No... Brent Casey was still working for Marshall Electronics when the Studio Projects mic's hit the market... and Stephen Paul wasn't teamed up with Alan Hyatt until later either... after Harvey Gerst helped team the two of them up.
 
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acorec said:
...All the old DBX units that people are paying big bucks for today, I threw in the dumpster in the 70s.
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I hate when that happens. On the other hand, it's amazing when something becomes coveted for it's short comings.
 
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