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Post by bluegrassdan on Oct 4, 2021 8:41:24 GMT -6
I use it all the time. Very versatile.
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Post by bluegrassdan on Sept 14, 2021 23:49:21 GMT -6
Fun fact. My good friend Susan Carson. Her husband, Bill Carson, helped design the Strat with Leo. It was originally a Western swing guitar. It was his idea to contour the body and have six instead of three saddles, I believe.
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Post by bluegrassdan on Sept 14, 2021 19:31:58 GMT -6
Yeah. It will fill a gap in your collection.
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Post by bluegrassdan on Sept 9, 2021 14:22:26 GMT -6
I always have the lead singer sing the whole song. The vocal timbre changes as the voice warms up, and you can end up with a first verse that sounds less engaging or a last chorus that sounds tired if you go section by section.
Harmony vocals are usually overdubbed section by section in order to match phrasing.
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Post by bluegrassdan on Sept 7, 2021 17:09:44 GMT -6
The KM84 is an amazing tool for those who are fortunate enough to own one. But until if and when Neumann reissues the mic it's basically unobtainium. Or put another way, the KM84 is realgearoffline. Nah. I think the KM84 thing is a phase. Give it a couple years and they'll start popping up again.
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Post by bluegrassdan on Sept 5, 2021 15:54:10 GMT -6
Can't quite read the badge Dan. MXL? Warm? Chris SM57
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Post by bluegrassdan on Sept 5, 2021 15:50:07 GMT -6
Since it's all anyone wants to talk about these days... Cutting harmony vocals here at home with the GOAT.
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Post by bluegrassdan on Sept 1, 2021 7:30:26 GMT -6
But guitar amps are the worst in terms of problems and reliability.
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Post by bluegrassdan on Sept 1, 2021 7:25:59 GMT -6
We have six AT4040 that have been used for live performances for 15 years or more. Students have taken those things all over the world. Never an issue - solid as brand new.
Have had to send off two KM84s for between $350-$450 service each.
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Post by bluegrassdan on Aug 29, 2021 10:17:37 GMT -6
Didn't they manufacture a metric ton of them from 1966-1992?
There's no shortage of them, it's just that people hang onto them.
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Post by bluegrassdan on Aug 28, 2021 15:50:53 GMT -6
Not to hijack, but I'm starting to feel like a pair of KM54s or a 54 and a 56 might be in my future. I'm just so darn scared of em. Afraid someone will crash during a guitar solo and sigh loudly into the capsule.
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Post by bluegrassdan on Aug 27, 2021 19:21:32 GMT -6
Okay...I'm in "AB listening mode" tonight, so this is appropriate.
They don't sound very similar to me.
U87 - Sounds like a U87. I've been testing preamps with one all afternoon and evening, so it's a familiar sound right now. Beautiful midrange and highs.
U87 SP Mod - Sounds like someone put a smiley face EQ on it. The low end is boosted probably more than it should be. It's missing the Neumann-esque midrange.
SA87+ - Another smiley face EQ. Missing that Neumann midrange, and very sibilant to the point of kinda hurting.
67 - This has nice midrange resoultion, but it seems deficient in the lows and highs. Frowny face EQ and simply a different flavor. I bet it would take EQ well.
Congrats on the purchase.
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Post by bluegrassdan on Aug 26, 2021 18:04:16 GMT -6
What are they actually going for in real life? Four or five years ago they could be had for $1,000-$1,250 USD a piece. Have they appreciated to $1,500-$1,800 now?
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Post by bluegrassdan on Aug 25, 2021 22:59:06 GMT -6
People can ask for whatever they want. Ain’t gonna happen.
84s have gone up, indeed.
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Post by bluegrassdan on Aug 21, 2021 6:45:22 GMT -6
Which preamps are you aware of that have switchable input transformers? The Speck Electronics has a switch for transformer/transformerless, but I wonder if there are units with, for example, “iron” vs “nickel” or “vintage” vs “modern.”
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Post by bluegrassdan on Aug 19, 2021 19:46:18 GMT -6
Balvenie Caribbean Cask 14
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Post by bluegrassdan on Aug 12, 2021 20:51:02 GMT -6
Yep. They seem to do just fine from what I can tell.
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Post by bluegrassdan on Aug 12, 2021 18:07:30 GMT -6
I like the new Neutriks.
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Post by bluegrassdan on Aug 11, 2021 17:50:52 GMT -6
We AB-ed it side-by-side with our circa 2008 U87Ai. They were pretty much identical sonically, which is impressive considering the 16-year difference.
Which also makes me stand firmly on my opinion in the thread about clones sounding brighter. The longer I do this, the more I grow skeptical that older mics become inherently less bright over time.
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Post by bluegrassdan on Aug 10, 2021 21:33:08 GMT -6
It's a very large pawn shop and seemed to be legit. They have lots of good quality instruments there.
It has the "i" of the "Ai" way off to the side. Serial number indicates it probably around 1991. John Peluso is gonna send me a shock mount and a hardshell suitcase for it.
You may ask what I paid, but I'll never tell. I might just wanna sell it to one of you someday!
UPDATE: Neumann confirms the date as 1992.
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Post by bluegrassdan on Aug 10, 2021 0:44:56 GMT -6
87
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Post by bluegrassdan on Aug 9, 2021 21:56:03 GMT -6
Got tipped off that this had been lying dormant in a smalltown pawn shop for about a year or more. They seemed glad that someone actually wanted it.
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Post by bluegrassdan on Aug 3, 2021 7:07:17 GMT -6
But microphones don’t experience the same mechanical “wearing out” like a car. It’s apples to oranges. That's a false statement based out of either inexperience or ignorance. Plenty of things in microphones wear out and break down over time... PVC based M7 capsules? Capacitors & resistors drift and fail... tubes wear out. Foam in the windscreen crumbles. Physical abuse. Nobody here has ever fumbled and dropped a microphone? Anyone who says they haven't is either lying or hasn't been in the game very long. I've spent considerable time around vintage microphones. Unless rebuilt they all have issues that affect day to day reliability. Inexperience and ignorance are both of my middle names. In the context of the original post, is it an inherent feature that the older a microphone is the darker sonically it becomes? I would argue no.
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Post by bluegrassdan on Aug 2, 2021 22:36:21 GMT -6
But microphones don’t experience the same mechanical “wearing out” like a car. It’s apples to oranges.
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Post by bluegrassdan on Aug 2, 2021 20:08:28 GMT -6
Here’s what I understand (which is more than the average Joe but not as much as veteran mic builders.)
I think it has much less to do with internal amplifier components and more to do with the capsules. No one has yet to crack the code to what makes Neumann capsules so incredible. Add that to the best quality tubes and transformers that are difficult to reproduce today.
In some cases, I suspect that modern mic designers may wish for their own sonic character. My friend John Peluso’s mics always have an airy quality that I believe he aims for.
The VF14 simply has not been replicated. Nothing comes close.
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