Wow, microphone addiction

[Azimuth]

Microphone addiction is something I never anticipated when starting my small studio!

Just ordered:

4 MXL603 ($319 pkg at 8th Street with cables)
2 ECM8000 ($145 with boom stands and cables)
1 SM57 needed another one...
Sony 7506 headphones (since my clients keep wanting to use my pair!)

I'm looking forward to playing with all of these.

I've got a Studio Projects T3 and like it so much I want to add a pair of C3s to the collection but I need my current clients to pay me a bit faster!

I've also got 3 SM57s and a Beta52 Kick Mic.

Just about had myself (and my wife) convinced that this would be all I need for a while, now I've read a few things about the Beyer M160 -time for a ribbon mic?

It never ends, does it?

Azimuth

 

[Henri Devill]

No it does not..Next Preamp addiction

Don

 

[Herm]

I have been buying gear this time around for 6 years now and no it never seems to stop.
Im only a drummer that gets to record other people once in a while and every time that
cataloge comes in the mail there is something I want out of it.
The one thing I have learned (the hard way) is to buy the best gear i can afford or wait
till I can, It just seems to pay off in the long run.
I made alot, A whole lot of mistakes in the bigining by doing the monkey see monkey do
thing like, And I know im going to catch flack for this statement but I went out and bought
two new adats and a mackie 8 buss mixer and ended up hating them every time I used
them.
I spent to much on too many sm57,s and not enough on quality gear and mics.
Wish I had know about good preamps and good mics before I started things would have
been alot more fun.

 

[alanhyatt]

This is the great thing about technology. It used to be you had to spend $10,000.00 to have a decent mic locker. Now a days, you can spend $1500.00 and have several great mics, at $2,500.00 you can have pretty much everything you would need for a studio, and those mics will do the job very well.

Alan Hyatt

 

[h kuhn]

i have got a m500, m260 (the old, zylindric form, from the 60s), md441, schoeps cm640, 2 mc012, earthworks sro, at 4035, and it gets worse with every new (or old and used) mic i purchase. I want 2 colettes. Or a pair mkh40. Or a pair 4041s (dpa, *not* at). Then there are these Royers. Nevaton looks very promising, too.

Maybe i need professional help. afriend of mine is psychologist, he told me that if i give him all the mics except for my 58 i will be cured. What makes me wonder is that he just bought a delta and a mackie mixer.

 

[Henri Devill]

H Kuhn..Yup I was wondering about the MK51 large dy. multi pat..Have you tried one?


Don

 

[h kuhn]

H Kuhn..Yup I was wondering about the MK51 large dy. multi pat..Have you tried one?


Don

no, not yet. In july we will move back to the motherland, in a town about 50km from the german Nevaton distributor. I don't know what to do, we will end starving but with a locker full of mc48 or mc51s.
You can listen to some samples of the mc51 here

http://www.biobonsai.com/echochamber/miktest.htm

 

[philboyd studge]

You know you're addicted when you'll go here;
http://www.k-bay106.com/photos.htm
before going to a porn site.

 

[alanhyatt]

Here is anoth one

http://home.earthlink.net/~jwebbmicrophones/

 

[philboyd studge]

oooooooooo, now there's a mic locker!

 

[Jimmy D.]

I'm new to this thing - and learning..

(yea, like Pavlov's dog)

Just one question...how long before I lose my job, due to the inability to "balance" the addiction?

SM57 - KSM27 - ???

To make matters worse, I'm a sucker for a well thought out sales pitch.

Any input from 'hardened addicts' are welcome...

 

[Scooter B]

GAA

Hello,

My name is Scott ...and...and....I'm a .......gear a holic.

As far as Mic's go I have only done one SM 57 but I know I must have more....lots more......

I spend lots of time trying to figure out how to come up with the cash for the next score...then I found this website...homerecording.com...I only wanted to ask a question or two ya know? I mean I mostly DI'd into a 4 track....I though I could just walk away but the GAS keeps calling me back....oh God why couldn't I have just written poetry...I mean paper and ink is pretty cheap....I could still eat and I wouldn't need special rooms and ...and....

 

[crawdad]

relieved

Oh, good! Its not just affecting me! I've bought five new mics in the last three months, when I was getting great results with the two I had. Now I want that clean preamp that makes my combined tracks shine like diamonds. Its nice to hear that others are afflicted as I am. Fortunately, I am very happy with my mic locker right now. I just want to augment my preamp selection and I think its all engineering after that.

 

[trebles]

I have a different approach now get my technique right learn my craft with what i have rather then buying everything im told to buy
try and make the enviroment as good as i can get it within reason and then practice practice practice log down all i do and learn from the crap recordings i make so then i too can make better ones in the future

Forget the sales pitch forget the gear lists start simple and master the simple first buy only what i need not everything i see

do wonders first with your cardioids and four tracks first or be prepared to dump it all off on ebay when the fad has finally passed believe it or not the best can achieve master pieces with the least can you achieve the same with the best ?

 

[Scooter B]

I just though the AAA support group analogy applied to GAS was kind of funny.

I really only own one SM 57 and a cheap Sure Prologue.

I would like to pick up a couple good bang for the buck dynamics like the MXL 67's at Mars for $99 and a few others for variety. I'm not interested in chasing the flavor of the month and don't believe any marketing hype I just hang out here to learn techique, tecnology and how to get the most usefull products in my price range.

Your are right Trebles about great equipment + bad engineering = bad results with a high price tag but decent equipment + great engineering = good to impressive results. The drive to get the best results will always keep the perfectionist in us wanting more and better equipment.

 

[Harvey Gerst]

Well, I hope no one will ever accuse me of recommending a "flavor of the month" piece of gear. After 50 years in this business, I learned a long time ago that good equipment (that is useful over a long period of time) is more important than simply getting whatever is hot for the moment.

When I test equipment, I take into consideration how useful something might be for a wide range of applications. I seldom recommend a "one trick pony", unless it happens to be a very good trick, and very useful, or very inexpensive for what it does.

That's why you'll never find a post from me where I jumped on the bandwagon for the Alesis 3630, the AKG C1000 or C3000, the Marshall 2001, the Rode NT1, or the GC Oktava MK012s - ever (to name just a few of the items I've tried to steer people away from).

When anyone (including me) recommends something, it's important to recognize how they are using what they're recommending, to see if their needs are similar to yours, and if their comments are valid and based on being able to compare the unit to several other similar units.

Just saying, "I have one and I like it" doesn't mean much unless it's accompanied by what else they've listend to, and how well they understand what they're hearing.

 

[trebles]

After 50 years in this business, I learned a long time ago that good equipment (that is useful over a long period of time) is more important than simply getting whatever is hot for the moment.

Totally agreed Harvey

But the big problem is many new people with an intrest for recording sometimes get steered down the wrong path i know i did and it wasnt untill it was pointed out to me what i was doing did i stop and take a long look at why i had this intrest to begin with.

Harvey you put a great load of time into showing us all what works and what dont, so we are all greatfull to you for this time you so kindly give to us all.

Time like this cannot be bought.

So many new people buy expensive mics who have not even mastered using sm57,s then their complaint is ohhhh it picks up everything in my not so controlled enviroment.

Well of course it does would it not be better to get your enviroment right learn your art then get the better mics

wouldnt it be better if those same people spent more time learning their art buying basic and then applying what they learn to their craft and in time then learn why they are expanding their mic cabnet not just saying ohhhhhhh great new mic gotta have it
when the mics they already have are of no real use to them at this stage with their limited knowledge base.

I myself emalied you asking a million and one questions and then only realised where i went wrong too thankfully i took note of some wise words shared with me and now im doing all slowly ive got quite enough to head me on my way now its just the learning curve for me to get over and alowly learn as i go and expand my gear as i need it after all i dont have a studio and if i cant make use of what i have it seems fruitless to buy more of same just to say i got it all.

 

[trebles]

typo slowly learn

 

[jgourd]

Yeah, buy so much stuff that each gig is like a try out for my latest setup

 

[battleminnow]

Holy punctuation,
Trebles ended his post with a period!!!


Pete