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I know I'll probably catch some flack for this, but quite obviously this is his kick drum sound and it's what makes him comfortable. Both playing-wise and tone-wise. I understand your drive for wanting it to sound good if it represents your work, but to me, what better represents an engineer's work ...

I've generally found that I don't like tube mics into tube mic pres. In fact, in general, I'm not nuts about tube mics pres, but for the most part, I hear WAY too much 2nd harmonic going on with a chain like that. I've also found that gain staging is critical. An old Altec mic pre, for instance, won...

What does the drummer think of all this? Does he agree or just love his suck-ass kick drum sound to death?

I just wrote a review on them in the last issue and i think they're great for certain things. Mine were new and came with no documentation at all, but I did a frequency response analysis of one of mine and 8 MC012s. (Interestingly enough, 7 of the MC012s were within 1 dB of identical to each other. ...

Someone should jump on this. I would if I didn't already have three of them. Watch for my review in the next issue of Tape Op. Thanks!

Chris Garges