Blue mics, cheap.

calaverasgrandes · Post by **calaverasgrandes** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:11 pm

Well not the fancy bottles or dragonflys or anything.
But AMS is blowing out the kickballs and the http://www.americanmusical.com/item--i-BLU-BALL.html (hehe....blue balls).
For $50 each. That doesnt suck.

RefD · Post by **RefD** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:22 pm

$50 for what i consider a colour mic...tempting.

RoyMatthews · Post by **RoyMatthews** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:28 pm

I bought the Kick Ball. It was never on my list but I for $50 why not. If it works OK and frees up a 421 that I'd normally use on kick it's worth it.

calaverasgrandes · Post by **calaverasgrandes** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 7:50 pm

I went and pulled the trigger on a kick ball. I've been short a kick/bass dynamic since my TGX50 died a mysterious death. I'm just hoping that the output isnt too high on these!
If its any good I'll get a 2nd one next week.
Double bass still exists.

8th_note · Post by **8th_note** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:09 pm

Thanks for the heads up. I ordered a Blue Ball and Kick Ball. I just can't pass up cool looking $50 microphones.

weatherbox · Post by **weatherbox** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:37 pm

Full Compass is doing the OmniMouse at half price - $600. Dragonflies are discounted too but not as heavily (also 600.) BB shockmounts, which fit many mics, are $39.

calaverasgrandes · Post by **calaverasgrandes** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:00 pm

Is the regular mouse as cheap?
What am I talking about. I got like 30 mics and only 3 different kinds of pres and 2 comps. I need to stop buying mics so much!
But I have been interested in the mouse for a while. As well as the Dragonfly.
Looks like they got the blue ball for $45, though I am not sure if the price wouldnt be the same as AMS with shipping. Oh wait, it says free shipping!
Whats up, they also dont seem to have any other blue stuff that they arent blowing out. Is Blue going out of biz? Or changing distros?

weatherbox · Post by **weatherbox** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:18 pm

The others are already gone. Change of distro is what I hear. I just saw this today, I think an Omnimouse is in my future...

PeterAuslan · Post by **PeterAuslan** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:13 pm

Thanks for the heads up - just bought a kickball.

finleysound · Post by **finleysound** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:09 pm

Anyone using the Ball Dynamic on guitars? Just wondering if I should pick up a pair for micing a stereo rig. I'm so over 57s for electric guitar.

RefD · Post by **RefD** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:28 pm

finleysound wrote:Anyone using the Ball Dynamic on guitars? Just wondering if I should pick up a pair for micing a stereo rig. I'm so over 57s for electric guitar.

i tracked some guitars with one last year (Telecaster into Ross Phaser into Valve Junior head into an open-backed 1x12" cab).

seemed to work best right up on the speaker.

it sounded okay, if a bit dark for my tastes...but i still liked the result.

Paul Fury 161 · Post by **Paul Fury 161** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 6:51 am

Rats, why doesn't stuff like this ever get sold in the UK?
AMS don't ship internationally ;-(

Anybody wanna buy a blue ball and a kickball for me and ship em to the UK for a modest fee ;-p

Be interested to know what you guys make of these two mics, anyways.

Cheers,

Paul

aitikin · Post by **aitikin** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:04 am

Paul Fury 161 wrote:Rats, why doesn't stuff like this ever get sold in the UK?
AMS don't ship internationally ;-(

Anybody wanna buy a blue ball and a kickball for me and ship em to the UK for a modest fee ;-p

Be interested to know what you guys make of these two mics, anyways.

Cheers,

Paul

If I had the money/time (they'll be sold out by the time I get back from this trip) I'd offer.

calaverasgrandes · Post by **calaverasgrandes** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:07 pm

DAMN! I just noticed that its free shipping on orders over $49.95. So if I had bought one guitar pick I would have saved 5 bux! Oh well. Spilt milk.

ps. It says they do have international shipping?

JefffM · Post by **JefffM** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:37 pm

calaverasgrandes wrote: ps. It says they do have international shipping?

Where does it say that. Al I could find was "AMS is only able to ship internationally to Canada and US Territories."

When you enter your address, the only choices in the pull down other than US states in Canada and Samoa or something like that.

It's a shame cos the cheapest I've seen them in England are around ?70 ($140).

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