your first condenser, how did it feel?

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What did you feel when you got your first condenser?

  • Big difference

    Votes: 381 80.9%

  • Not so big difference

    Votes: 37 7.9%

  • Realized you could have get same results with dynamics

    Votes: 27 5.7%

  • other (please specify)

    Votes: 26 5.5%
  • Total voters
    471
addictive. so many fantasic colors appear in the wonderland
 
It felt kinda cold but it was firm & mettalic like. Kinda like holding a piece of metal piping.
 
The first condenser i had was a cheap superlux LDC. I was amazed and i liked the way it looked compared to the radioshack mic. After many more condensers, i get amazed everytime until i hear a better one:)
 
Something like this was my first. I clipped it to a coke can for a stand, then plugged it into my 1993 hitachi laptop and recorded onto windows recorder, then stuck the gigantic .wav on xoom.com for folks to listen on the web. amazingly, that worked out ok. but now it's like you take a few hundred more bucks to try to recapture that first flush of success - maybe in the future i'll get into condensers, after I "master" the SM57.
 
my first condenser is a Oktava 319 paid almost 400.00 for that piece of crap
I thought it was the greatist thing in the world. 5 years after I bought it they were selling them for a hundred bucks .bastards .
 
I got my first condenser a number of years ago... already posted about it here way back in the thread. I've got a pretty good mic cabinet now but I happened to have that old mic out today so I used it for two acoustic guitar tracks here. It's a Shure BG 4.0

Tim
 
My first condenser was a joemeek JM47. Still my only condenser. From advice I got here last year to upgrade, I actually got a test session at GC. The only thing I liked that came close of the handful I tested was a Groove Tubes. But that is for my particular voice, mind you. But the GT and JM47 sounded pretty much like the same mic, so I stuck with what I had (have) and chalked it up to there always being someone telling you something is better. It sounds great to my ears, and that is what ultimately counts. Until I hear the need to venture further, I will continue to use it as my one and only go to condenser.
 
my first was a MXL 2003
When I bought the condenser was a kind of "honeymoon" with the new mic.... ( wow!!!great frequency response!!! very accurate,you hear any sound of any place, think: "my PC has a lot of noises",the walls are breathing (!!!)....)

But...today, hearing records with my SM 58 and others ... was great too,in a different way... each one has their place.
 
My first condenser was an Nt1. It felt much bigger in my hand than the pencil electrets I was used to.
 
My first condensor was a MXL 990 from Musician's Friend. I had to figure out what phantom power was so I could work it. I had no idea what the difference in a mic level signal verse a line level signal was too. Ha...that's a trip looking back.
 
When I first got into recording I had several V-tech (57 clones - but worse) from doing live sound. Anyways, my first condensor mic was a Betta 87 and it was like day and night from the crappy mics I had been using.
 
Kelly Dueck said:
The first time I ever heard a condenser mic was at recording school in Calgary. It was an AKG 414. I learned how to do a lot of recording with a stereo pair of these. We also had a couple of U87s, some SM81's, AKG 451's, KM84's and a Sony C37a among others.

When I moved to Winnipeg to work in a Studio, we also had a couple of 414's, a TLM170, and some 451s.

My ears never new that there were condensor mics that sounded bad. I had never heard anything other than solid, workhorse, professional condensers.

I left the industry for 11 years, then re-entered it as a hobby. I didn't want to spend a lot, so I bought a pair of MXL 2001/603 mic packs and an Aardvark pro 2496.

I plugged in one of the 2001s and thought to myself ... This isn't what I remember about condenser mics at all -- maybe a little -- but something was missing. I reached for the 603s and plugged them in -- this was a lot more like it. I ended up selling the 2001s, getting a V67 and two CAD m179s and an SE5000 (this one may have been a mistake ... still can't decide) and now I have pretty much everything I need for awhile .. OK, well, at least until the next paycheque.
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Hey Kelly!! I'm new here and from Winnipeg as well. What studio did you work at here? I'm new to home recording, but did a lot of work as a guitarist back in the early 80's at Roads, Century 21 and Mid Ocean.
 
My first was also an MXL 990. Now I've got that, a 991, 2 Apex 430s, a Sony electrelet condenser.
 
My first condenser was (still is) a MXL V67G. I have to say I was not prepared for what I was about to hear.

Granted my only experience was with a Sennheiser 945 and I still love that mic.

However, I was not prepared to hear everything that was going on in the house (realize I need a sound booth of some kind).

I could hear the car driving by, the wife in the kitchen washing the dishes, my chair creeking and everything else that was going on in my house and the surrounding vicinity. I love the tonality of the V67G and the richness it gives to speach as well as acoustic guitar.

Now that being said I only have two mics (which are listed here) but I do love both of them and I never plan to get rid of them. Perhaps one day when I have a large professional studio in my home my V67G may not see as much use as other mics but I still like the sound. For $99 on ebay with a (crappy) mic cable and the shock mount it was a bargain.

Now I am looking at getting a tube mic MXL V69 perhaps or a MXL 960 but I have not eliminated the V76t yet.
 
my first condensor was, I think, an old U87. I mean, I worked a bit with others before that but not hands on enough to really understand their pros, cons, and sound (mostly as recorded talent, not as an engineer in other words).

the U87 was the first mic I fell in love with and became obsessed with.

Still love them to this day, no matter what I say about tlm103s and how great they are and the rest of the modern line ups, the U87 is still something for which I have a soft place in my heart.

Cheers,
Don
 
My first one was a used AKG c2000b for $100. And it was pretty good...for $100 :D
 
Big difference does not necessarily mean better!
their just different to dynamics
some things you need a condenser for and some things you need dynamic for!
Depends on the situation.
 
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