Unknown Mic Test

  • Thread starter Thread starter CanopuS
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I don't understand what the point of your "test" is.

You've got a clip . . .

Now, do you just want us to tell you what we think of the song? Why are you not disclosing what mic it is? Are we supposed to guess?


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Well, maybe it is my point of view, but $300 to me is not cheap. Getting good sound out of a $59 microphone is news. Getting good sound out of a $300 mic is expected.
 
There are reasons why the mic isn't named. The fact that its discontinued and not well known would put people off. The song isn't mine, I'm considering buying the mic off the guy who wrote the song. Perhaps "good" isn't the word I should be using, but comparing it to other mics of that price range. It retailed for $800 and being the idiot I am I'm poor at telling too much the difference between mics.
 
CanopuS said:
I'm considering buying the mic off the guy who wrote the song. Perhaps "good" isn't the word I should be using, but comparing it to other mics of that price range.
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Alright, now we're getting somewhere, I think. :confused: :confused:

It sounds like you want us to tell you whether we think the mic is good or not, or whether or not you should buy it ? ? ? Or if we think it's worth $300?

That's kind of difficult seeing as how you've given us no point of reference; you have no other clips where another similarly-priced mic was used so that we might compare.
 
Yep. Thats the idea. Do you mean clips of A/B comparisons, or just clips of other mics in that price range? Unfortunately the guy doesn't have an A/B comparisons. Incidently, as its not really important now, the mic is a "Manley CR3A Langevin", originally $800. Being as rare as it is, its gonna be impossible to get an A/B comparisons I feel
 
Yo CanopuS! Such comparisons are not really useful. You give me a song, a perfectly good one, and a fine performance, and I can find 10 perfectly good mics that can make it sound like shit.
Also, I can show you some signal chains with gain stage problems that can make a Neumann U47 or a B.L.U.E. Bottle sound like Mr. Microphone.
Finished sound is the result of a combination of factors. This includes the performance and the sonic quality of the source, the material, the room, the instrument, the mic(s), mic placement. the cables, the mic preamp, compressor, gain staging, the recorder, FX, the mix, EQ. Then you reduce the resolution to an MP3, and finally the gear that the downloader plays it on, and you have guaranteed that *no one* can tell you diddly about the mic.
I'll guarantee you that if we take, say Paplo Casalls, playing a $150,000 cello with a $30,000 bow, and Al Schmitt mics him up in the A-room at Atlantic, using Mogami cables into D.W. Fearn, and then to a big time Pro Tools setup, or for that matter, a classic open reel, he can make it sound great with almost any microphone that has ever been made.
Conversely, if we take some drugged up ignorant homeboy mic'd up by his buddy Slush, in a tin roof garage, into a Behringer Eurodeck cranked up too high, into a Soundblaster, they can make a Soundelux or a Brauner sound like a Radio Shack mic.
Of course, I should point out that drugged up homeboy's new release, "Cutting the Bitch in a Tin Roof Garaj", will be critically aclaimed, and Slush will win a Grammy for best new producer.-Richie
 
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