What's the last mic you had in your hands?

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SP B-3.

It was the room OH (omni) mic used for recording a Hurdy-Gurdy. Also had the AT4033a up close, and a '57 at the bridge. I touched all of them within the same "period" of time, but the SP B-3 was the very last one I actually touched. It could have been a simpler answer, but I wanted to say I had the other two mics, and that I got to record a funky, rare, eclectic instrument with them. So there.

At least I spared you all a story about my 'snake'. :p
 
1973 Neumann U87.... Putting it back in it's case before I left for vacation:D
 
Last mic would have the be the bunch of SM57s, 81s and Beta 58s that I had to run to a gig last night when some band rocked up without any gear. However I do hear the courier is going to rock up today with my matched MK-12s, so I'l have to take a trip to the locker this evening
 
Yesterday, I held an AT4047 for a bit when I was rearranging the studio.
 
Groove Tubes GT55.

Hoping to put my grubby paws on a chinese tube mic soon...!

h1pst3r
 
A pair of MXL 603s that I use for overheads. They got knocked out of their good X/Y position by my bass player, so I had to readjust them.
 
My SP T3 as I put it back in the case before handing it over to my friend whom I sold it to. *sniff*
 
My wife called me at work today - "What's in this UPS package?"... it turned out to be a JoeMeek JM37DP LDC, which I'm setting up right now... ;)
 
Raw-Tracks said:
One of my brand new SE1A's. Turns out it's wired pin-3 hot. :eek: :eek:
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excuse my ignorance as I don't know much about the tech side of this stuff but what does the above statement mean?
 
qiktune said:
excuse my ignorance as I don't know much about the tech side of this stuff but what does the above statement mean?
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In a balanced signal you have a hot, a cold, and a shield. Those are the 3 pins on an XLR, or the Tip-Ring-Sleeve on a balanced 1/4". Mics have always, and will continue to always be pin-2 hot. There was a time when there was some disagreement on line level outputs, but mics have always been pin-2.

If a mic is wired pin-3 hot it's polarity is opposite of all other properly wired microphones. In my case, I had purchased 2 mics. One was wired correctly (pin-2 hot), the other was wired pin-3 hot. If you use those 2 mics as a stereo pair you would experience awfull comb-filtering and phase cancellation.

Under perfect test conditions, when both mic's diaphragm's are in the exact same spot, recording a sine wave, the summed ouput of the 2 mics would cancel each other out. In real world conditions the results would not be as drastic as complete cancellation, but they would be pretty nasty. For instance, If you use a pair of mics for drum overheads, where one mic is wired pin-3 hot, you would probably notice an overall lack of low-end because of phase cancellation.

Hope that answers your question.
 
Eric, thanks for the perfect explanation......phase cancellation is some thing I understand. I discovered it accidentally years ago when hooking up some home stereo speakers.

I then discovered all of the little anomolies on Beatles records using out of phase speakers :-)
 
at4040. just recorded a girl's college tape with her saxophone. a 4040 and an sm57 together picked up the sound very nicely!
 
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