Stephen Paul, Alan Hyatt Partner Up

[ozraves]

Maybe I already have him signed up!!!

I wouldn't doubt it except for all that $$$ gear they are selling over at AMEK. I don't know what kind of deal he has with AMEK. There are definitely a couple of market segments that Mr. Neve could put products into under a different name that wouldn't compete with AMEK. I think there is a fear in some big names to compete in those market segments just b/c they might not be among the best in those lower market segments.

I think the segments you are working in Alan are much more exciting than the first tier stuff. It has to be more challenging. Maybe, Mr. Neve likes a challenge.

Steve
http://www.piemusic.com

 

[Gidge]

some newbies probably look and wonder why you have 6000 posts.

Then again some of us know that it's all posts about the marshall v67, posts about the DMP2, and every time something about studio projects is said, you claiming spam.

Jeez....when I started out, I almost kinda listened to you. Maybe I should have listened to your recordings before thinking "he knows whats up" because you post so much. The only decent sounding thing on the site in your profile says that someone else did the recording.

Pay attention to some of the other forums youll learn :

a) its been quite awhile since anyone has heard me accuse Studio Projects of spam.....

b)i am excited as anyone over this partnership, as expressed elsewhere, and my above post was pretty much satire and sarcasm, as we had already started discussing the partnership a few days earlier....my excitement comes not for myself personally,because id never spend that much on a mic, but for the audio world.....

c)i never pawn myself off as a musician or an engineer....i came here originally becuase i jumped from 4 track cassette to digital to do songwriter demos and needed help.....i am a songwriter......and from what i hear from members whose opinion i respect, i am a pretty darn good one.......and as far as my songs, the one-take recordings do suck, but the songs are good.....and i have the balls to let people listen.......

d)beyond the DMP2 and the V67 that i push so much, lets add the C1 and Joe Meek preamps that i push also (no we cant do that...that would prove im not anti-AlanHyatt)....also the J-Station, Yamaha guitars, Delta soundcards, N-Track, Goldwave, Fruity Loops, Acid,Peavey amps, Carvin PA systems, Behringer compressors, the RNC, Mackie mixers, i guess the list could go on....yeah it does kinda suck that i would offer up recommendations on decent gear on a budget instead of letting people spend many $$$$ to weed through the sucky gear.....bad Gidge (slaps hand)......

dude, i still got love for ya.....

 

[alanhyatt]

To all HR Members,

Let today be the new beginning of HR. All is fine between Gidge, Chessrock and me. Let’s put aside all the accusations and move forward to talk about product. Let the Spam accusations and the Spam Police die for now.

As Rodney King said, “Can’t We All Get Along”? Of course no one is taking a beating here, but I think we are all ready to move off this. So, how about it?

Alan Hyatt
PMI Audio Group

 

[philboyd studge]

Agreed. Hmmm, I'm gonna be in the south bay for a few days this week, maybe I should drop by PMI and see if there's anything to beta test.

 

[CyanJaguar]

Im so glad that Im in marketing

Hype ANYTHING enough and it will sell like hotcakes. Darn, you can sell sand to those living in the dessert.

I so badly want this to be a high-performance microphone that will rival the sound quality of the u87, c12s et al since Stephen Paul is a well respected audio engineer who is so clearly concerned about sonic nirvana.

BUT what I am guessing this is is basically a mic from the same factory that makes the NADY, JOEMEEK, SE ELECTRONICS, with a slightly altered capsule and a much heftier price tag.

WHy am I not all that excited? We'll have ten thousand people swearing up and down about a mic, yet having the phantom uneasiness of knowing that something is wrong with the recording yet not having the balls to pin it on the right suspect.

Hey, STephen, if this is not the case, I apologise. If you are not going to be using chinese capsules, count me IN for getting one. If you are using a chinese capsule though, I'll pass. Hopefully, many u87 owners will purchase one and put their u87s up for sale ,cheaply, on ebay.

 

[alanhyatt]

Cyan,

Don't guess on this one, because you would be wrong. Just hang in there and see what happens. If someone wants an 87, then they should buy an 87. The Stephen Paul Microphones will be the Stephen Paul Microphones, not a U87 or a C12. Better or worse will be found out soon enough.

These mics will come with Stephens stamp of approval. When has anyone not been happy with his work? With all due respect, it won't matter if it is made by KoKo the Gorilla as long as Stephen says it passes his QC, so assembly is not an issue. Lets not go into what China can do, because they do great work as well as crap work, but every Country in the world does the same thing...

Does anyone seriously think that Stephen would risk his reputation on a stock microphone with an altered capsule and that is it.

Your quote of "I am guessing this is is basically a mic from the same factory that makes the NADY, JOEMEEK, SE ELECTRONICS, with a slightly altered capsule and a much heftier price tag", is so far off, so please don't make assumptions where you have no knowledge to make them.

I am not baggin on you, but I don't want to see more s#!t start up again. Stephen's mic is nothing like you think it is, and knowing his reputation, I am surprised you would think that.

Alan Hyatt
PMI Audio Group

 

[Harvey Gerst]

Re: Im so glad that Im in marketing

Hype ANYTHING enough and it will sell like hotcakes. Darn, you can sell sand to those living in the dessert.

I so badly want this to be a high-performance microphone that will rival the sound quality of the u87, c12s et al since Stephen Paul is a well respected audio engineer who is so clearly concerned about sonic nirvana.

Stephen in addition to being a well respected engineer, guitar player, singer, and song writer, is a brilliant microphone design engineer who was the first to figure out how to build thin diaphragms for large diaphragm condenser mics. His modified mics are heard on about 70% of the biggest selling albums around.

BUT what I am guessing this is is basically a mic from the same factory that makes the NADY, JOEMEEK, SE ELECTRONICS, with a slightly altered capsule and a much heftier price tag.

You obviously don't know Stephen Paul very well. Lemme just say that while it may be built in one of those factories, it will be about as far from a "slightly altered capsule" as something can get. Stephen don't do dat!!!

Why am I not all that excited? We'll have ten thousand people swearing up and down about a mic, yet having the phantom uneasiness of knowing that something is wrong with the recording yet not having the balls to pin it on the right suspect.

Hey, Stephen, if this is not the case, I apologize. If you are not going to be using chinese capsules, count me IN for getting one. If you are using a chinese capsule though, I'll pass. Hopefully, many u87 owners will purchase one and put their u87s up for sale ,cheaply, on ebay.

Will some (or even most) of the capsule components be made in China? Yes, in all probability. Will they be manufactured to incredibly tight tolerances, unlike the current capsules? Absolutely. Will Stephen hafta go over there and show them how do do this? Probably. Will most of the final stuff hafta be done by Stephen or Tony in the states? No question about it.

To the best of my knowledge, there are no bad SPA modified mics in existance, and none that the owner has ever said put it back the way it was, which, considering that Stephen's mods often cost more that the mic sells for new, is pretty amazing.

 

[CyanJaguar]

I hope Stephen and Alan hyatt all the best in making this mic(or line of mics). I want them to be awesome sounding mics that would match or beat some of the current favorites, while lowering the price tag so that project situations can afford them.

I have also seen too many very well respected companies bring out a relatively substandard offering to appeal to the lower priced categories.

I would be tickled as heck and very thrilled as well if stephen would go over each of these mics like he does currently, but then that would be a very expensive proposition.

As I said, if these mics are made in China, in the current factories pumping out the nadies et al, count me out.

BTW, Stephen, WISHES with Valerie carter is a fave piece of mine and I am currently listening to it.

 

[Harvey Gerst]

I hope Stephen and Alan hyatt all the best in making this mic (or line of mics). I want them to be awesome sounding mics that would match or beat some of the current favorites, while lowering the price tag so that project situations can afford them.

And if it was all those things and more, what difference would it make where it was built?

I have also seen too many very well respected companies bring out a relatively substandard offering to appeal to the lower priced categories.

I don't think Stephen's first microphone (produced under his name) would be substandard.

I would be tickled as heck and very thrilled as well if stephen would go over each of these mics like he does currently, but then that would be a very expensive proposition.

Duh, do you suppose that's one of the reasons the mic is gonna cost more than standard Chinese mics?

As I said, if these mics are made in China, in the current factories pumping out the nadies et al, count me out.

And as I said, if it's truely a world class mic, what difference does it make where it's made?

BTW, Stephen, WISHES with Valerie Carter is a fave piece of mine and I am currently listening to it.

"Wishes" is a favorite of mine as well.

 

[heylow]

Does anyone seriously think that Stephen would risk his reputation on a stock microphone with an altered capsule and that is it.

Alan Hyatt
PMI Audio Group

This is what I'm banking on, personally.

I think there are a lot of folks here that dont know exactly who Mr. Paul is because his name is not as heard in the "outside" world. In the world of audio, however, his is a name that is easily held up to some of THE most distinguished names in audio....Neve or anyone else you might think of.

Engineers drool over products Mr. Paul has worked on...they are like unicorns to the engineer.

Still, I fear some will end up dissing the product because some people will diss anything.

I also have an aversion to the China thing. However, I am a realist and I realize that most everything right here on my desk with electronic parts has at least SOMETHING to do with China. So many things are built in various places but have chinese parts like circuit boards, resistors, etc. It sucks but is a fact of life....if one were going to change the world and rid it of such things, the microphone industry would be only a speck on the page.


heylow

 

[Randy Yell]

I think that the excitement over the teaming up of Alan and Stephen in this venture is far from hype.Stephen is on a tier by himself in microphone design and Alan has brought incredible value for our hard earned dollars,their partnership will be good for not only proffessional studios but also for us homewrecker types.Although the mic will be a little pricey for those of us who don't earn any money from what we love to do eventually we will benefit from the technology and innovations that will be used so it's a good thing for us all.

As far as the "made in China" thing you would have to be naked living in the woods in a cave to successfully avoid all products manufactured there or in other third world nations.I used to ride and I'd get a kick out of people who rode stock Harleys and would hassle people who rode Honda's etc about buying American as about a third of the parts on a stock Harley were made in Japan.If something is built well as has a good price I'm going to use it.As far as labor practises in China or anywhere else,I don't have time nor the inclination to research every manufactorer in China or anywhere else in the world including right here in the good ole USA.That's what government agencies and the media is for.

 

[Gidge]

for someone whos been constantly in search for THE mic, i dont see how you can count this mic out because of where its made, CJ....please dont take this as a flame, it is not......

 

[alba359]

If hostilities flare up between the U.S. and China.....Do they make microphones in other third world countries like.........Canada?

 

[chessparov]

The Vipre mic pre is "made in China", so case CLOSED!
Let's put a fork in this one, O.K.?

Chris