(Whatever works) Equipment you love but evreyone else hates.
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(Whatever works) Equipment you love but evreyone else hates.
I have had 3 AKG c1000s over the years and have heard nothing but bashing on this site. And I admit that the price tag alone says something of there quality, but I just love them. The strange spike around 7k sounds great to my ears while recording Acoustic Guitar. It's a love grown out of years of reliable consistent performance. Ya know what I mean?
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Maybe not quite on topic, but I used to use AKG 535's as drum overs and loved them. Also, they were pretty nice on acoustic guitar.
The 535 is marketed as a live condenser vocal mic, but I say, if it sounds good, eat it.
Chris
The 535 is marketed as a live condenser vocal mic, but I say, if it sounds good, eat it.
Chris
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Re: (Whatever works) Equipment you love but evreyone else ha
akg c300b..yep,,, it's a friend of mine.
Re: (Whatever works) Equipment you love but evreyone else ha
Alesis micro limiter.
$25 lo-fi 1178.
$25 lo-fi 1178.
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Re: (Whatever works) Equipment you love but evreyone else ha
cheap rack mount digital delays....
mxr blue face comes to mind first, but I've got a few others too that are equally as fun/annoying.
later,
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mxr blue face comes to mind first, but I've got a few others too that are equally as fun/annoying.
later,
m
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what a coincidence.Slider wrote:Alesis micro limiter.
$25 lo-fi 1178.
i just bought this not two days ago...my first compressor ever, believe it or not. can't wait to try it out.
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The C1000s' hyped low end sounded great on my singer, before the testosterone shots. Now it sounds horrible.Tonedrone wrote:I have had 3 AKG c1000s over the years and have heard nothing but bashing on this site. And I admit that the price tag alone says something of there quality, but I just love them. The strange spike around 7k sounds great to my ears while recording Acoustic Guitar. It's a love grown out of years of reliable consistent performance. Ya know what I mean?
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This describes everything I have!Tonedrone wrote:Re: (Whatever works) Equipment you love but evreyone else hates.
I used to do alll my gear shopping at Cash Converters and the Goodwill.
Home stereo spring reverbs.
Yamaha SPX50.
The tube guts of a really bad old reel to reel rack mounted as a pre-amp (sounds awful in a great way).
No name bargin bin mics.
The Robot voice changer (works magic on a drum sub-mix).
My idea has always been that everything will do one thing really well. You just have to figure out what it is.
Re: (Whatever works) Equipment you love but evreyone else ha
Put your drum mix through it and blend the compressed and uncompressed signals together.Noah wrote:what a coincidence.Slider wrote:Alesis micro limiter.
$25 lo-fi 1178.
i just bought this not two days ago...my first compressor ever, believe it or not. can't wait to try it out.
I thought it was funny that Richard Dodd admitted to using these.
I know a few people who still love them.
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Archos MP3 recorder v2.
For field recording there's nothing like it. Recharge-able -- Never needs batteries. Built-in mic means always ready for crappy recordings. Condenser mic plugged into the line-in yields loveliness. Line-in means I'm no longer dependent on my computer for grabbing audio on the fly in my studio. 192kbps on-the-fly encoding sounds much better to me than cassette tape. None of that messy mucking-with-media hijinks like with DAT tape.
And its a 20gig hard-drive to boot.
And awesome on road-trips.
For field recording there's nothing like it. Recharge-able -- Never needs batteries. Built-in mic means always ready for crappy recordings. Condenser mic plugged into the line-in yields loveliness. Line-in means I'm no longer dependent on my computer for grabbing audio on the fly in my studio. 192kbps on-the-fly encoding sounds much better to me than cassette tape. None of that messy mucking-with-media hijinks like with DAT tape.
And its a 20gig hard-drive to boot.
And awesome on road-trips.
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I found the C1000s to be pretty nice on acoustic, at least on a few of my acoustics. I didnt like them much for overheads though. Funny that's the exact opposite of how I feel about my SM81s which I got to replace the C1000s.
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I love those mics.... I use them on a lot of things. Last band I recorded I used them on the toms. Ive used them as overheads, accoustic guitar, lead vox and other stuff. Underrated mic in my opinon.LittleDogAudio wrote:Maybe not quite on topic, but I used to use AKG 535's as drum overs and loved them. Also, they were pretty nice on acoustic guitar.
The 535 is marketed as a live condenser vocal mic, but I say, if it sounds good, eat it.
Chris
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Alesis Nano-Compressor. No, it's not some magical secret weapon, but it sounds pretty neutral and is well worth the $99. Especially when my only other compressor is a RNC, which is useless for bass.
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