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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2021 14:50:41 GMT -6
Well this was fun.
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Post by tommy on Mar 5, 2022 14:11:14 GMT -6
tapeop.com/reviews/gear/138/little-red-monster-tube-condenser-microphone/So here is what the real pros said about our early design.. it’s changed since then to have better connectivity through the tube cradle, etc. and now, all of Ningbo used the capacitors we favor which is a hybrid made by Rubicon… of all things this was the most flattering.. Also we now use hand made German tubes! Thank you so much for the buzz about our gear. No such thing as bad publicity after all. Kind regards, Tommy
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Post by tommy on Mar 5, 2022 14:14:25 GMT -6
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Post by tommy on Mar 5, 2022 14:37:48 GMT -6
These cats love our mics. So blessed that they reached out to us. Means the world. We didn’t pay anything for these contributions… Here’s Henry Garza, LOS LONELY BOYS, CHRIS BELL, Rupert Neve’s go to engineer, famous for recording Eagles first number one album, Jewel, Zombie / everyone. And my new friends 3rd Eye Blimd where we were invited to a photo opp at the exclusive recording compound / Fire Fly at Fischers.
Then there are the movie guys…
Need a whole other page foe….
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Post by tommy on Mar 5, 2022 14:39:21 GMT -6
The last photo is what I get for trying to help artist world wide… my car was jinked to take me out
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Post by tommy on Mar 5, 2022 14:44:03 GMT -6
Robert Rodriguez, of the Mandalorian and Dusk till Dawn fame to name a few, has a LITTLE RED MONSTER or two, and instead of using LUCAS FILMS iconic 47s on all acoustic instruments, used our LITTLE RED MONSTERS for acoustic guitar etc. for second season, Mandelorian. Ours about $500 doing the job of the 2nd and 3rd most famous 47s that are with well over 30k each…
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Post by tommy on Mar 5, 2022 14:50:54 GMT -6
This aligned with Spielberg’s sound engineer for much media work and many films, Jonathan Grossman. Who had me to his home studio to check out our LRMs. It was a pivotal few seconds of silence with him shaking his head after recording his old Gibson acoustic, and and finally said: “Tommy… that’s the best sounding mic I have ever used on an acoustic guitar. The best sound ever. Didn’t have to turn a dial, it was already right there!”
So if we were copying everything from someone we would not have been the first for such accolades. He’s worked with Steven Paul mods and the Sinatra 47, the most famous mic in the world, even over the Carson ribbon.
All this matters when we went head to head against the Sinatra 47.
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Post by tommy on Mar 5, 2022 14:52:07 GMT -6
Thanks again for the space realgearonline.com
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Post by tommy on Mar 5, 2022 14:52:47 GMT -6
Thanks again for the space realgearonline.com
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Post by tommy on Mar 5, 2022 14:54:21 GMT -6
Thanks again for contributors / friend or troll
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Post by sp on Apr 17, 2024 15:14:18 GMT -6
I don't know how I bought one of his 47's with the existence of this thread, but a trusted engineer had said it was decent....and the Tape Op review. The communication to get the mic was a total debacle. I was promised a Theirsch capsule and a NOS tube...and a warranty. It arrived looking like UPS had played football with the box. The mic was DOA, and it had neither the Theirsch capsule, and the tube was a $10 PSVANE. There were some of the worst looking solder joints I'd ever seen on the capsule and where it's wires connect to the PCB, and in place of shrink wrap at one location was duct tape. There was one wire dangling and not connected to anything, presumably due to the horrible soldering. I emailed 3 times trying to just get a refund. I called multiple numbers that went nowhere. At this point I'm having my tech see if we can make something usable out of it. Happy to provide pics of the horror inside if anybody still wants some laughs.
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Post by enlav on Apr 17, 2024 15:43:41 GMT -6
I still find it odd that you can see their mics show up regularly (or at least, used to?) used in various Guitar Centers in Texas. I know GC will occasionally deal gear they don't officially carry straight as "used" and I'm curious if that's that's going on here. SP: I know this ship has sailed, but if you're still in the market, around the price of the Weird, you could get a 47/48 from UAE SAE (signal arts) for a few hundred more (going off of their site's prices).
edit: Wow, there are quite a few Weird 47's at GC.com marked down. One apparently even made its way to Sherman Oaks, but you can tell from the photos that it was yet another acquired in Texas.
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Post by ericn on Apr 17, 2024 15:48:49 GMT -6
I don't know how I bought one of his 47's with the existence of this thread, but a trusted engineer had said it was decent....and the Tape Op review. The communication to get the mic was a total debacle. I was promised a Theirsch capsule and a NOS tube...and a warranty. It arrived looking like UPS had played football with the box. The mic was DOA, and it had neither the Theirsch capsule, and the tube was a $10 PSVANE. There were some of the worst looking solder joints I'd ever seen on the capsule and where it's wires connect to the PCB, and in place of shrink wrap at one location was duct tape. There was one wire dangling and not connected to anything, presumably due to the horrible soldering. I emailed 3 times trying to just get a refund. I called multiple numbers that went nowhere. At this point I'm having my tech see if we can make something usable out of it. Happy to provide pics of the horror inside if anybody still wants some laughs. Welcome to RGO, sorry to hear about your experience with weird. Taking a flyer on a new cloner of mics with all the generic made in China crap and higher dollar Made in China crap pretending to be the real deal is a gutsy yet naive move. I’m sorry to hear about your experience, but not shocked. Weird did a great job of setting its self up with great PR out of the gate. Unfortunately in the world of mics that’s usually a clear signal of disappointment. Get your money back, if weird lives up to its name about it call your CC company. |
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Post by ericn on Apr 17, 2024 15:52:26 GMT -6
I still find it odd that you can see their mics show up regularly (or at least, used to?) used in various Guitar Centers in Texas. I know GC will occasionally deal gear they don't officially carry straight as "used" and I'm curious if that's that's going on here. SP: I know this ship has sailed, but if you're still in the market, around the price of the Weird, you could get a 47/48 from UAE SAE (signal arts) for a few hundred more (going off of their site's prices).
edit: Wow, there are quite a few Weird 47's at GC.com marked down. One apparently even made its way to Sherman Oaks, but you can tell from the photos that it was yet another acquired in Texas.
GC doesn’t deal new gear as used even if they aren’t a dealer, they will take gear billed as “ like new” or I never “ used” but no transferable warranty and the seller is not an authorized dealer as used as they should, it’s one of the few respectable policies they have. |
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Post by enlav on Apr 17, 2024 16:07:46 GMT -6
GC doesn’t deal new gear as used even if they aren’t a dealer, they will take gear billed as “ like new” or I never “ used” but no transferable warranty and the seller is not an authorized dealer as used as they should, it’s one of the few respectable policies they have. I might be missing the nuance in this, but when I was with the company, we definitely had a special scenario where we had some inventory come in that we were not official dealers in, so no warranty, no nothing, but we priced it out to move fast.
The nuance that I might be missing: I know they weren't tagging the product with our yellow-used tags, but they definitely weren't the standard "red"-tags either.
Not sure how the online SPO system works now, are you suggesting that if they're on used site, that some employee or manager is actually buying in these Weird Mics at 600 a pop, and tagging them at 1k? (Estimating on the buy-in values, based on the original used prices for them)
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Post by ericn on Apr 17, 2024 17:10:42 GMT -6
GC doesn’t deal new gear as used even if they aren’t a dealer, they will take gear billed as “ like new” or I never “ used” but no transferable warranty and the seller is not an authorized dealer as used as they should, it’s one of the few respectable policies they have. I might be missing the nuance in this, but when I was with the company, we definitely had a special scenario where we had some inventory come in that we were not official dealers in, so no warranty, no nothing, but we priced it out to move fast.
The nuance that I might be missing: I know they weren't tagging the product with our yellow-used tags, but they definitely weren't the standard "red"-tags either.
Not sure how the online SPO system works now, are you suggesting that if they're on used site, that some employee or manager is actually buying in these Weird Mics at 600 a pop, and tagging them at 1k? (Estimating on the buy-in values, based on the original used prices for them)
Then the stuff wasn’t simply trans shipped from another dealer, it was in fact used ( you want to guess where a bunch was trans shipped from😁 we all did it it if you had a client who really needed something). I’m going to bet all those weird mics are from one of 2 scenarios. 1. Some rep traded them for a guitar or something, might even have spread them around TX for a couple things, again saw it all the time. 2. Someone at GC bought into the line and they lived up to the name not the hype, again you see it all the time with GC used, they take it back on trade, when it doesn’t live up to the hype. I’m sure Weird was willing to give away the farm to get GC to sell a couple. “ So & So at GC pro loves our mics” is right up his alley and I have known wayyyyyyy to many reps, sales managers and owners of gear manufacturers who could play this role without a script. |
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Post by nick8801 on Apr 17, 2024 18:57:08 GMT -6
I don't know how I bought one of his 47's with the existence of this thread, but a trusted engineer had said it was decent....and the Tape Op review. The communication to get the mic was a total debacle. I was promised a Theirsch capsule and a NOS tube...and a warranty. It arrived looking like UPS had played football with the box. The mic was DOA, and it had neither the Theirsch capsule, and the tube was a $10 PSVANE. There were some of the worst looking solder joints I'd ever seen on the capsule and where it's wires connect to the PCB, and in place of shrink wrap at one location was duct tape. There was one wire dangling and not connected to anything, presumably due to the horrible soldering. I emailed 3 times trying to just get a refund. I called multiple numbers that went nowhere. At this point I'm having my tech see if we can make something usable out of it. Happy to provide pics of the horror inside if anybody still wants some laughs. I’d love to see the pictures! |
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Post by ericn on Apr 17, 2024 19:12:20 GMT -6
I don't know how I bought one of his 47's with the existence of this thread, but a trusted engineer had said it was decent....and the Tape Op review. The communication to get the mic was a total debacle. I was promised a Theirsch capsule and a NOS tube...and a warranty. It arrived looking like UPS had played football with the box. The mic was DOA, and it had neither the Theirsch capsule, and the tube was a $10 PSVANE. There were some of the worst looking solder joints I'd ever seen on the capsule and where its wires connect to the PCB, and in place of shrink wrap at one location was duct tape. There was one wire dangling and not connected to anything, presumably due to the horrible soldering. I emailed 3 times trying to just get a refund. I called multiple numbers that went nowhere. At this point I'm having my tech see if we can make something usable out of it. Happy to provide pics of the horror inside if anybody still wants some laughs. I’d love to see the pictures! Need a good laugh Nick? |
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Post by ragan on Apr 17, 2024 21:43:23 GMT -6
Oh man, definitely post the pics.
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Post by drumsound on Apr 17, 2024 22:12:39 GMT -6
I wonder if they are still in business. I wouldn't doubt it was a 'take the money and run' situation.
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Post by sp on Apr 23, 2024 8:49:38 GMT -6
I don't know how I bought one of his 47's with the existence of this thread, but a trusted engineer had said it was decent....and the Tape Op review. The communication to get the mic was a total debacle. I was promised a Theirsch capsule and a NOS tube...and a warranty. It arrived looking like UPS had played football with the box. The mic was DOA, and it had neither the Theirsch capsule, and the tube was a $10 PSVANE. There were some of the worst looking solder joints I'd ever seen on the capsule and where it's wires connect to the PCB, and in place of shrink wrap at one location was duct tape. There was one wire dangling and not connected to anything, presumably due to the horrible soldering. I emailed 3 times trying to just get a refund. I called multiple numbers that went nowhere. At this point I'm having my tech see if we can make something usable out of it. Happy to provide pics of the horror inside if anybody still wants some laughs. Welcome to RGO, sorry to hear about your experience with weird. Taking a flyer on a new cloner of mics with all the generic made in China crap and higher dollar Made in China crap pretending to be the real deal is a gutsy yet naive move. I’m sorry to hear about your experience, but not shocked. Weird did a great job of setting its self up with great PR out of the gate. Unfortunately in the world of mics that’s usually a clear signal of disappointment. Get your money back, if weird lives up to its name about it call your CC company. Yes, I should have known better. Anyways, Paypal refunded the money, so I'm not out any cash |
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Post by sp on Apr 23, 2024 9:09:39 GMT -6
Ok guys, as requested here are some pics of what I discovered in side this Weird 47 "mod 2". The glaring issues (aside from the fact that it's just an Alctron) are the insanely shitty solder joints on the capsule wiring, and the duct tape. I can't seem to attach files, it says the forum has exceeded it's attachment limit. Here's an imgur album: imgur.com/a/inEVyJbFrankly our email exchange has some gems in it too. At one point he sent me an insanely long (1365 word) email going off about a bunch of his problems, basically how much the world was against him and none of it was his fault....sad really. Ironic how he had the time to type that super long email, but go completely silent when the mic was DOA and I was hoping to just return it to him. Because of his communication blackout, I had to request a paypal refund-- which they did because he also did not respond to their communications. Anyways, I appreciate all the suggestions for better options from you guys. My tech who is familiar with the Alctron circuit is going to help me build something nice using this Alctron body and PSU, probably with a Theirsch capsule. |
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Post by nick8801 on Apr 23, 2024 9:17:56 GMT -6
Omg what a mess! What brand of tube is that? Doesn’t look familiar.. ..those solder points and the duct tape. How is that even real??
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Post by gwlee7 on Apr 23, 2024 9:54:57 GMT -6
Those pictures look like what I would imagine me building a mic would look like.
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