You Personal Favourite Tube Microphone for under 1000.00 USD

[cavedog101]

We are currently beginning tracking for the next record.I'll be auditioning mics for the vocals for about a month.In this week is the ADK Area 51 TT.A nine pattern tube transducer(thus TT)...After warm up yesterday, I got a chance to play with it a bit.Pres are going to be determined later.Probably will go with the API 512 or maybe a Focusrite 7, UA 2-610, or TLA British Tube Channel...For the scratch tracks right now it'll be the ART MPA or maybe(if I stay lazy) the Ghost pres.Anyway, this mic is clearly a warm and focused sound...as I have a vocal booth, the omni lends itself nicely to room sound and a lot of very quiet gain.Theres not a whole lot of low proximity effect which to me says you can get up close and personal with this for those breathy tracks.So far so good...After a few days with it and some basic mixes with the instruments I'll know more about how it'll sit in a mix.Next up will be the ADK Hamberg,a VX2 CAD,a TLM170,and when I put the pres in play, I'll stick the old unusually great sounding Octava MK319 we've got in there.Why its simply better than all the others (Octavas)is beyond me...but it is.

 

[AllOrNothinEnt]

That's tough, considering the CAD M9 is now $299, which makes it a hell of a deal.

 

[fraserhutch]

Tonewoods, I just figured out who you are, after all this time.

How's things on Orca's Island tonight?

I'm in Marysville, a wannabe guitar builder. I gotta come up and see you sometime and get a little stockpile of wood to get me started.

John Bentley says Hi.

Hey guys, I'm in Kirkland!

How would you guys like to record at my place? I'd love to have the chance to record you both!

And, C7Sus, I'm looking for a decent guitar to become re-aquainted with.....

 

[deepwater]

CAD VSM

Work great in about everything I put in front of it

 

[turnitdown]

I like the CAD VSM... alot....

 

[Mountainmirrors]

Another vote for the ADK TC.

 

[Big Kenny]

The results of this poll illustrate that more people own NTK's than any other

 

[noisedude]

The results of this poll illustrate that more people own NTK's than any other

I like this new 'attitude' you've had going on recently, Kenny. It suits you!

Sometimes a bit of appropriate sarcasm achieves more than a hundred paragraphs of earnest explanation!

Nik

 

[ljmaxx]

I'll add the Peluso 22 251 to the list. I got one a few weeks ago and so far it hasn't failed to impress me. I'll have a track in a week or so if anyone would like to hear it.

 

[Robert D]

I have an NTK, therefore it is better than all those other ones I've never heard. If any of them were better, I'd have bought that one instead.

-RD

 

[Big Kenny]

I like this new 'attitude' you've had going on recently, Kenny. It suits you!

Sometimes a bit of appropriate sarcasm achieves more than a hundred paragraphs of earnest explanation!

Nik

I mean no disrespect, let me explain. Never mind, you wouldn't understand.

 

[pohaku]

There are lots of good solid state as well as tube mics out there. The few tube mics I have are not currently manufactured ones with one exception. All are under $1000 used and I think all of them are really good. I have (in no meaningful order):

GT-44/AM-40. I think this is one of the best, if not the best, of Groove Tubes' current crop of tube mics. They are the same mic near as I can tell with just some cosmetic differences (in fact the circuit board in my GT-44 says AM-40). Terrific on acoustic instruments. I have a couple of these.

GT MD1a. Original GT tube mic (first reissue with better noise specs). Very different than the MD1b. Industrial strength and hand built with a replaceable/changeable tube. Great sounding very tubey mic. Good on lots of things and especially guitar cabs. I bought an MD1b on the Musician's Friend blowout thinking it might be a match for my MD1a, but it appears to be a GT-66 in drag. The internal electronics and capsule looked like the pictures I have seen of the GT-66. I sent it back.

GT MD3. Top of the line multipattern old GT mic with capsule hand built by David Josephson. Wonderful vocal mic on many voices - especially women. Has that bigger than life quality and a lot of air. Very hifi.

Gefell M582h. Old Neumann Gefell tube mic with a 582 amplifier and a LD M7 capsule (M71). Kind of an anomally as the 582 amp generally is only used with SD capsules. As I understand it, there are some 582s that have been modified to accept the M71 head (the electronics are modified and the smaller capsules can no longer be used) and also the 582h that was designed to take the M71 head, but which are relatively scarce. A Wonderful mic! Warm, present and all those good words. My current favorite of my tube mics.

I'd like to try some of the older CADs like the VX-1 and VX-2 as well as the Pearlman. And more Gefells.

 

[noisedude]

I mean no disrespect, let me explain. Never mind, you wouldn't understand.

And then there's posts like this where I can't tell whether you're joking or not.

I know you mean no disrespect. Me neither.

 

[Big Kenny]

Ya know, I'm never really sure myself! Nah, just kidding. (or.........)

 

[noisedude]

Kenny, you remember a man of few words but for some reason I still trust your ears. And the economy of effort you achieved by putting your closing line in your signature is brilliant.

So you're in Nashville, right? Tell me - who are the up-and-coming 'CCM' acts I should be aware of?

 

[Big Kenny]

not from nashville......but keep an eye out for Billy Currington, if ya like that kinda thing, I'm still diggin' that
john Mayer kid

 

[noisedude]

Cool! I thought I was the only person in the world who'd heard of John Mayer! Maybe he's just not big over here yet.

 

[kahuna]

Thought I'd mention that AT4060's are selling on eBay new for $749.00.

I really dig my pair!

Look up "moncdawg" on eBay.

Cool.

 

[normalizer]

i just have to add my mojave audio ma- 2a kit. i got the mic free when i bought something else and i think the kit was 300 or 350. can't beat that.

 

[dcomerford]

my vote

I have never used one but a mix engineer friend in LA
Alexoana.com
has a couple of groups back in the Midwest that track with the AT4060.
It sounds great in a mix and he highly recomended it.
check out the Vicious Vicious CD.....thats an AT 4060.

I know, retail it tips at $47 over budget but I think you could get a deal somewhere.
That Manely Refernce Gold for $4500 sure does sound smoother and sweeter than my GT55 FET........ah fruits of a divorce where a different engineer friend lost the house and studio but kept the gear in storage so I'm getting a holiday trying out premo gear I could never afford. There is an upside to others missery.

http://www.alexoana.com/listen.html