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cad m179. Very versitle, cheap, and not overly hyped at the high end. My cellist actully prefers it over some of my nicer LDC's. Sounds good on my reeds also. Very solid mic.

A really stupid impulse buy on appearance alone. It looks so cool but I know it won't sound worth shit.



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That looks pretty darn neat. What applications would it be best used for?

An Audio Technica at3525 on each drum ($100 or less used on ebay) A set of overhead sdc's that you like and are affordable. This is my old set up. It still is now but with the addition of a rca bk-5 on the outside of the kick (at3525 on the pedal side) and an upgrade of some Josephsons as the overhe...

I am having central air put in this week or so, so the attic will be temperature managed. I dont think my bass clarinet, ghost board and outboard gear would be real fans of 103 degrees and 95% humidity for most of the summer in that attic. I would not want to play music in that kind of environment e...

Possibly a carpet or similar material. Something tells me a soft absorbing material would be better acoustically than sheetrock or drywall.

I am turning my raw attic into a recording/playing space. I am going to have the walls insulted. The attic is your standard vaulted ceiling/church looking roof. In terms of acoustics, not soundproofing, would leaving the space raw with the inslution rolls exposed offer a better acoustic environment,...

I believe Kramer recorder Palace's "West Palm Beach", one of my favorite tunes of all time with the perfect recording ambience.

Another way of seeing it is this. If you go to a store and they ring something up that is more than the advertised price, more than likely you will mention it so you get the correct price. However if they ring it up and it is below the price that it is supposed to be, would you mention that you are ...

This is somewhat budget minded list hd24 to record to a nice above entry level board (Ghost, Toft ATB, etc) A stereo set of nice clean pres and a set of very coloured pres a stereo compressor or two matched mono comp's (RNC, DBX160's) Some good affordable LDC's such as Blue or Audio Technicas. A ste...

Wait.... Now let me get this straight: 1) You bought a mic from a guy off Craigslist. 2) You think it's broken, because it sounds "horribly undefined." 3) You feel like you've been scammed and "jipped." (sic) 4) Rather than just bringing your mic to Guitar Center to compare, you'd prefer to 'buy' t...

Or, there is the Dick Cheney route.

Get the mic from Guitar Center, find out the one you got from Craigs List is bad, and return the defective one with all the new packaging!

Microphone Butter

I have recorded cello quite a bit for a friend of mine that is a cellist. We have done some mic shootouts with what I have including a u87ai, 4033, a groove tube ldc tube mic, beyer m500 ribbon, shure 300 ribbbon, a rode nt1, sm7, re20, and a Cad m179. The one we end up going back to all the time is...

Peavey 520i.

I am serious.

Great sleeper mic for the used price.