CAD Microphones

[C.H.U.D. S.F.]

Anyone have any experience with these?

I'm hunting for budget mics but these seem to cheap to be true....

I would love if those of you who've used em could offer your opinions.

[trodden]

I love my older e100. I use it every session! great on bass cabs and i've used it outside of kick and as mono overhead. I do have an older e200 for sale in the buy sell trade section which is supposedly 2 e100's back to back, multipattern. decent mic, i just don't use it enough to warrant me keeping it when i need other things. Those are the only CAD mics that i've had experience with. Wait, i did use an e300 before, seemed decent for the job it was doing, "scratch" vocals for a country record.. but all the live tracks were used, even the vox.

[eeldip]

i gots a cad e300. its got an exaggerated top and bottom which makes it cool for some things... i dont like it much as a vocal mic, but as a kick mic, room mic for non bright rooms, bass cab mic. its pretty great.

i had an m179, which is sort of the "updated" e300, but much smaller and lighter (which is why i got it). wasnt as nice as the e300.

anyway, all the e series mics use some sort of uniqueish electronics. they run on rechargable batteries that are charged via phantom, and can run without phantom for some time.. a few hours?

i also believe this is where they get their unique sound. see if you can find one and check it out... they definately are different than other sub 300 dollar mics.

[JASIII]

I have a M179 that I like, pretty versatile and very little coloration.

[Randy]

Here is a link to the archives for the M179, with accolades and some sound files.

http://messageboard.tapeop.com/viewtopic.php?t=6131

[nacho459]

The old e300's are pretty cool. You could used to find them on ebay for like $150. Awesome room mics especially for orchestra and big band.

[Screws]

Female vocals! I did a recent project - Venezuelan Ga?ta, a type of folk music. We tried the following mics on the singer:

BLUE Blueberry
Alesis AM62 tube mic
Rode NTK tube mic
AKG C4000b
Soundelux U99 tube mic
CAD E-300 (older version)

CAD won with a slight edge over the U99.

Here's a link to the finished mix.

http://www.songramp.com/view.ez?samplei ... 1131503085

Click on the speaker icon to play.

[drumsound]

I've got an M9 tube CAD. it sounds really good in the hallway as a drum room mic. It's a bit bright on vocals. I'm planning to try in on guitar overdubs next week.

Oh, its blue and thus cool looking...

[theenvycorps]

I have an M179...it was a very neutral and good sounding little bugger. It was very nice to have all those patterns...I say was because one day the thing just fragging didn't work and it is a PCB mess inside. So it's on the shelf.

[joel hamilton]

I've got an M9 tube CAD. it sounds really good in the hallway as a drum room mic. It's a bit bright on vocals. I'm planning to try in on guitar overdubs next week.

Oh, its blue and thus cool looking...

I have been wondering about that mic for a long time.

We have an E100 and an E300 that rarely get used, but when they do, they are just the thing for the situation.

[joelpatterson]

The M9's awesome. I think somebody posted a review on Harmony Central about it. I've got two, and even tho both power supplies failed, CAD was straight up about replacing them.

The E-300's, the older ones, are awesome too.

They're easy to love, like the ugly little kid down the block who's the best skateboarder around.

[starscream]

I have 2 of the E200's and find them to be pretty cool. I dig them on drum oh, room, acoustic gtr(sometimes) and vocals (especially female and even loud male, but it REALLY depends on the pre). They're worth checking out if you find them cheap, I got the pair for under $400 on eBay a couple of years ago, YMMV.

[mindrocket]

I love my M9 for guitar and some vocalists.I bought it because I liked it on acoustic guitar but it gets just as much use on electric.Combined with a 421 on a speaker the sound is HUGE.

[norton]

i sold an e100 a while back and kick myself for it... great mic. that works on almost anything... bass/.guitar/drums/vocals

e200 also nice... doesn't get used much but it's a really nice multipattern mic for cheap.

cheap ass kick mic... not bad once you pull all the foam out of the windscreen and around the mic element... really opens the mic up.

i couldn't resist trying one out for $50.

[sleep over jack]

i've got a KBM412 kick mic.

i'd recommend it if you've got nothing else to use on kick and almost no money to spend. it's a cheap kick mic that'll work, but to be honest, it's really not very good.