MCA SP1 mic as reviewed in Tape Op #60
MCA SP1 mic as reviewed in Tape Op #60
The reviewer was thrilled with it. Hard to turn down at $39.99 (www.pssl.com). Anyone have one or have any experience with it?
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I sorta wondered about it myself, did you see the SP1-PACK, you can get 2 of them for $70.
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Yeah, I saw that one in their catalog. Intriguing, but is it substantially better than the typical MXL V57, 2001 or SP B1 mic? I have those but it would be hard to turn down something decent at that price, either for one or two.RodC wrote:I sorta wondered about it myself, did you see the SP1-PACK, you can get 2 of them for $70.
I have two of these that I bought years ago. I use them often for overheads and percussion stuff. They are actually small diaphram mics with a big ring around the element and packed in a LDC side address body. They sound pretty good but I find myself not using them as much as my 603's. I had started to do the Royer Tube Mod to these (didn't get far) and just kind of lost interest.
They were not always so cheap. I think I paid 50 or 60 bucks each back in the day. I was told that these were originally OEM mics for Marrs Music before they went belly-up. I got them from an MXL dealer who got a deal on a bunch of them from MXL (I think) or maybe a jobber. They are absolutely worth 35/each!
Maybe I'll finish the tube mods to them or buy some more and put them on tom toms.
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They were not always so cheap. I think I paid 50 or 60 bucks each back in the day. I was told that these were originally OEM mics for Marrs Music before they went belly-up. I got them from an MXL dealer who got a deal on a bunch of them from MXL (I think) or maybe a jobber. They are absolutely worth 35/each!
Maybe I'll finish the tube mods to them or buy some more and put them on tom toms.
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drumsound wrote:The reviewer of the mic is Terry Setter. He's the guy that designed the new tube mics from Chameleon Labs. Terry knows what he's talking about.
I have one on the way as well.
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Ba da bum...Thanks you we'll be here all week!supafuzz wrote:drumsound wrote:The reviewer of the mic is Terry Setter. He's the guy that designed the new tube mics from Chameleon Labs. Terry knows what he's talking about.
I have one on the way as well.
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I've been thinking about picking up a pair for drum overheads. Ideally I'd go for a pair of Oktava MK-012's (perhaps modded) but financial reality keeps rearing its ugly head. Am I just kidding myself here? Or are these things really half-decent? How do they compare to other low-cost drum-friendly mics on the market?
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Oh, thank you folks, thank you. You're too kind. Really, you are.
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I just got 2 and while they're not matched by any means they are still very cool. I've only been able to try them on vocals so far and I have to say I was quite surprised. They've got kind of a dirty, almost distortion thing going on that actually didn't sound bad in the application I was working on at the time. I'm really looking forward to trying them as OH's.
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http://www.pssl.com/bitemdetail.tpl~waG ... atGroup%5D
I just got 2 and while they're not matched by any means they are still very cool. I've only been able to try them on vocals so far and I have to say I was quite surprised. They've got kind of a dirty, almost distortion thing going on that actually didn't sound bad in the application I was working on at the time. I'm really looking forward to trying them as OH's.
For $70, their definitely worth having around.[/url]
IzovAge wrote:Pro Sound and Stage Lighting
http://www.pssl.com/bitemdetail.tpl~waG ... atGroup%5D
I just got 2 and while they're not matched by any means they are still very cool. I've only been able to try them on vocals so far and I have to say I was quite surprised. They've got kind of a dirty, almost distortion thing going on that actually didn't sound bad in the application I was working on at the time. I'm really looking forward to trying them as OH's.
For $70, their definitely worth having around.[/url]
DAMN!! I was looking for that,and couldn't find it. I got two from the same place for $80..... hard to feel ripped off for buying 2 LDCs for 80 bucks though:)
This is like the only store out there that has these. Everyone has the SP2s but the review said not to get those.
They must have made some of those "improvements" to the sp2s??
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