Studio Projects C1

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Just did some googling and it appears this mic walks on water and is a must have....

I then came here did a search for C1 in the microphone forum and got 0 hits!

What up wid dat?

So any of of ya used,heard ,hate or love this mic?
 
Just "C1" is too few characters.

Try "Studio Projects C1" - lots of info to sort through.

Good Luck! :)
 
TAE said:
Just did some googling and it appears this mic walks on water and is a must have....

I then came here did a search for C1 in the microphone forum and got 0 hits!

What up wid dat?

So any of of ya used,heard ,hate or love this mic?
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The C1 does walk on water. Other mics do neat things too. Some turn water into gold. Others (when not in use) turn into beautiful women. Some even claim to sound like God.
 
TAE said:
Just did some googling and it appears this mic walks on water and is a must have....

I then came here did a search for C1 in the microphone forum and got 0 hits!

What up wid dat?

So any of of ya used,heard ,hate or love this mic?
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I don't get it... you've been an active hr.com memeber since 1999 with well over 500 post and never seen/read any threads on the subject?

Whats up wid dat?

Anyway... use the (*) wildcard. For example... type in... C1*
 
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The SP C1 was going to be my most recent purchase but I kept reading about the "harsh" Chinese mics here at HR BBS so I bought an AT 4040 instead. The 4040 is a great mic but now I've got this little nagging doubt about whether I should've bought the C1. There are a lot of people who love it but an equal number seem to think it's too harsh. I guess it'll be on my "next mic" purchase list. I did about a month's worth of research on the C1. I read everything I could find on it at least twice. I was absolutely convinced that it was the right mic, then at the last second, I ordered the 4040. I've never seen the 4040 compared to a Neuman, but the C1 has been. Good luck on your decision.
 
i would take AT4040 the AT4040 over the C1. actually thats the next mic i plan on buying. i'm sure theres an AT4040 vs. C1 thread somewhere and i betcha the 4040 wins
 
ch2os7 said:
The SP C1 was going to be my most recent purchase but I kept reading about the "harsh" Chinese mics here at HR BBS so I bought an AT 4040 instead. The 4040 is a great mic but now I've got this little nagging doubt about whether I should've bought the C1. There are a lot of people who love it but an equal number seem to think it's too harsh. I guess it'll be on my "next mic" purchase list. I did about a month's worth of research on the C1. I read everything I could find on it at least twice. I was absolutely convinced that it was the right mic, then at the last second, I ordered the 4040. I've never seen the 4040 compared to a Neuman, but the C1 has been. Good luck on your decision.
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Most folks debating whether to get a C1 have never heard the Neumann U87 in the flesh, or any other high end mic for that matter, let alone owned one or had extensive experience with one.

I didn't become aware of the Chinese "harshness" until I had used some better mics for awhile. It's funny, because it's so obvious now, whereas before I had a hard time telling any difference.

The AT 4040 does not have the harshness of the SP C1.
 
The only harshness is the idiot "chinese mic bashing" that goes on here on this forum...test out a C1 and find out what the 4040 is lacking...
 
I just got my C1 in the mail. Set it up with a band I was recording... female vocals. The nice metallic shockmount and large mic was just plain impressive looking. She sang. It sounded like shit. It sounded horrible. There was a hissing high end grossness and it was just plain unpleasent. I whipped out the behringer B1 which generally works decently on everything and things sounded good again. I was pissed. I had bought an AT3035, a GT55, and now a C1 and had liked the behringer B1 better than all of them. We finished the session and everyone left. Determined that I had to be wrong I set the C1 up again and tested it on myself. And it sounded better than the B1. "What's this?" thought I... this was a whole new situation. It revealed a "graininess" which I hadn't heard in the behringer before. So here's what I've learned. Both the B1 and the C1 are both obviously chinese. I couldn't hear it before but I now hear it in both. (they exposed something in each other) The B1 sounded much better on female vocals while the C1 sounded much better on male. So there you go... these mics are both very similar in my opinion with their own perks. While the C1 made me sound more "Pro" I suppose? it didn't work well for everything like the behringer had.

That was way too long.

If you're doing male vocals, get the C1. If you're doing female or other instruments with notably and audibly high harmonics go for something else. They are both chinese and both far from perfect and if you can't hear it now, it'll become clear to you eventually.

For the record, I've liked these two mics on vocals more than any other mic I've ever tried, in my studio or elsewhere.

Jesus.
 
If you want to hear one application of the C1, go here: http://www.feelslikefridaymusic.com/music.htm. All the songs under the "Feels Like Friday" title use the C1 on the vocals. If that doesn't work for you, go here: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/2/feelslikefridaymusic.htm. The first 2 songs have the C1 used on the vocals. I use a presonus firepod for pre's. See what you think - I have a John Mayer-ish sort of voice (well, maybe not, but you can be the judge). I like it. I don't expect it to sound like a U87 - but for the $150 I spent on it, I'm a happy camper.
 
TAE said:
Just did some googling and it appears this mic walks on water and is a must have....
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Ya know, I was watching an infomercial the other day, and saw this really cool slicer; it pretty much sliced everything in under 1/4 of the time it would take you to do it manually, and in 1/2 the time it would take the competing slicer. They even made an exclusive offer that if I "acted now," they would throw in a free peeler ... which, amazingly, peels things in half the time it takes the nearest competing peeler.

I was so excited, I stayed up even later to watch more television, and came accross this amazing money-making seminar, where real people claim to make 18,000 a month in their spare time with almost no effort at all.

Marketing takes many forms.
 
kidvybes said:
The only harshness is the idiot "chinese mic bashing" that goes on here on this forum...test out a C1 and find out what the 4040 is lacking...
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Oh, I love this. I've said it before, too (doesn't make it true, although I believe it to be true) about the idgits here who bash Chinese mics. The C1 has a "shine" that you need. Listen to any good commercial recording, and you'll hear what people here define as a "harshness" to the vocal, but it needs to be there to sound good on all types of speakers, i.e. computer, car, boombox, etc. It needs that cutting edge, if you will. Otherwise, it might sound too muddy on a particular system. If we all had incredible stereos, you wouldn't need that universal, sibilance-producing edge that 99% of the music out there has.

Besides, if you don't want that, you can eq it out of the C1.
 
One mans shine is another mans sizzzle. To each his own.

For the record, please notice who is calling who idiots.

Kirk
 
Bodhisan said:
If we all had incredible stereos, you wouldn't need that universal, sibilance-producing edge that 99% of the music out there has.
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Or maybe if we had better singers we wouldn't need that crap.
 
Yawn................ hey TAE, where did you go? I hope the wildcard tip helped. Anyway, good luck and take care. Later, Don. :)
 
The only harshness is the idiot "chinese mic bashing" that goes on here on this forum...test out a C1 and find out what the 4040 is lacking...
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That's just tooooo funny
 
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kidvybes said:
The only harshness is the idiot "chinese mic bashing" that goes on here on this forum...test out a C1 and find out what the 4040 is lacking...
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I think the reason I chose the AT4040 was because in all the research I did on both the C1 abd the 4040, I never read anything negative about the 4040 ..... until now.
 
I for one...well I'm amazed,thats what I am!

So ChessRock did you get that slicer after all?
 
DJL said:
I don't get it... you've been an active hr.com memeber since 1999 with well over 500 post and never seen/read any threads on the subject?

Whats up wid dat?

Anyway... use the (*) wildcard. For example... type in... C1*
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I wondered that! It's not like we haven't had it done to death enough times :)

The wildcard tip is right too ... hope you find what you need to know. I would be a little nervous about a C1 now, because of some of what's been said on here. I guess it's worth a punt though - over here, any condenser mic will fetch almost its RRP on ebay, so you can't lose. Still can't believe you're really asking this question!!
 
DJL said:
Anyway... use the (*) wildcard. For example... type in... C1*
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I did not know that. DJL, you are a gentleman and a scholar.
 
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