Studio Projects C1 without Pad?

[musix]

Stupid Question. Alan is selling an early c1 without a pad. what is a pad? Is a c1 without a pad worth the time of day. Unless your a collector of chinnese mic's. I'm not a collector of anything I can't use. the question is it usable. Also were there any problems early c1s.

 

[Imagine]

Pad: an apartment, house, one's domain, cave... or

n. & v.
n.
a piece of soft material used to reduce friction or jarring, fill out hollows, hold or absorb liquid, etc. a number of sheets of blank paper fastened together at one edge, for writing or drawing on.
= ink-pad. the fleshy underpart of an animal's foot or of a human finger.
a guard for the leg and ankle in sports.
a flat surface for helicopter take-off or rocket-launching.
colloq. a lodging, esp. a bedsitter or flat.
the floating leaf of a water lily.
v.tr. (padded, padding)
provide with a pad or padding; stuff.
(foll. by out) lengthen or fill out (a book etc.) with unnecessary material


I didn't know they had any earlier versions of the C1. Is it a beta?

Imagine

 

[musix]

it has a really early serial number

One of the first. what is a pad in reation to a condenser mic?

 

[Mark H.]

Be nice. It's a cut switch to reduce the output of the mic, usually by 10dB. Most mics do NOT have a pad. It's mainly useful in helping to use two mics with different output levels. It's absence should not effect the overall quality of the mic.

Mark H.

 

[Henri Devill]

Unless you are recording ragein' volumes you dont have to worry about "pads"..Basicly it allows you to record very loud sources like inside a kik drum/loud guit amps/ect...I've never had to use the pad at the mic for vocs..acoustic guitars...Think of it like a "sensitivity switch" on the mic..


Don

 

[musix]

thanx

musix

 

[Queue]

Basically the only common complaint about the C1 was the fact that it did not have a -10db pad or bass rolloff switch...

Alan has responded to this criticism by revising the spec for the C1 adding....

....suprise! a -10db pad and a bass rolloff switch.

"no pad" does not equal a beta mic, think of it as the 2001 model C1. In 2002, the C1 will have the aforementioned switches.

Queue

 

[chessparov]

musix, I have a "vintage" (non-pad) C1 and it works great for my vocals.

 

[musix]

great thanks all

Musix

 

[alanhyatt]

Actually, I don't use pads either, but Queue was right, many people kept asking me to design one into the mic, so I did.

See...I listen to you all. For the record, they are shipping now.

Alan Hyatt