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ChrisFriday
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Ok so I've owned a xlr audio setup and a lot of your typical shure, audio technica, senheiser, electro-voice mics.
I sold my setup. I decided I'll get a more modest setup so I started looking at usb mics. Since ive used so many mics ive learned to have somewhat of a good ear at least dodging a few bullets when looking at usb mics. I was looking at mxl, audio technica, etc usb condensers. Suddenly I started to see a few random no name brands while searching ebay. Namely these three usb condensers sparked my interest:
galaxy audio ST-2B
recording-tools MCU-02
apex electronics Apex440
besides the fact they all look like autistic u87s i couldnt help but start to wonder how these no name companies where making these mics and why i could find almost no people sampling them on youtube besides the Apex440 and a few mcu-01s which reminded me of blue snowballs so I was insistent to get the bigger brother mcu-02 assuming it would probably sound like a blue yeti.
the Apex440 kept looking like the better deal. only 100 bucks. 24bit. uses usb 2.0 96khz. FET transformerless. gold sputtered. started to sound a lot like the higher end setup i used to use. i cant help but think that all 3 of these mics were made by the same manufacturers? they all use the same shockmount. i don't know enough but im assuming they outsourced these to a chinese company.
also from the 440 samples i herd they seemed to sound pretty good and natural. im probably going to get one. I wish i could hear samples of the other two. They seem better than all the other usb mics.
I sold my setup. I decided I'll get a more modest setup so I started looking at usb mics. Since ive used so many mics ive learned to have somewhat of a good ear at least dodging a few bullets when looking at usb mics. I was looking at mxl, audio technica, etc usb condensers. Suddenly I started to see a few random no name brands while searching ebay. Namely these three usb condensers sparked my interest:
galaxy audio ST-2B
recording-tools MCU-02
apex electronics Apex440
besides the fact they all look like autistic u87s i couldnt help but start to wonder how these no name companies where making these mics and why i could find almost no people sampling them on youtube besides the Apex440 and a few mcu-01s which reminded me of blue snowballs so I was insistent to get the bigger brother mcu-02 assuming it would probably sound like a blue yeti.
the Apex440 kept looking like the better deal. only 100 bucks. 24bit. uses usb 2.0 96khz. FET transformerless. gold sputtered. started to sound a lot like the higher end setup i used to use. i cant help but think that all 3 of these mics were made by the same manufacturers? they all use the same shockmount. i don't know enough but im assuming they outsourced these to a chinese company.
also from the 440 samples i herd they seemed to sound pretty good and natural. im probably going to get one. I wish i could hear samples of the other two. They seem better than all the other usb mics.