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Post by hadaja on Jan 7, 2021 22:38:35 GMT -6
All three.
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Post by ragan on Jan 7, 2021 22:57:17 GMT -6
All riiiiiiiiight, everybody - I met Carlos today in Chapel Hill. Super, super kind and friendly guy. Had a really good time talking with him. I got the mic. I'm pretty busy over the next 4-5 days, but if I have a chance, I'm hoping to do something similar to last time with the Soyuz vs. Stam 67 thread. Wanted to get you guys' thoughts, though: Would you like to hear the Serrano 87 compared to the Soyuz? Or the Stam 67? Or both? If both, then I'll have to use my interface pres, b/c I don't have three of any other pres right now. What do y'all want to hear? Personally, it's the Stam 67 vs Serrano 87 I'd be most keen to hear. But all three is great too. |
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Post by cserrano on Jan 17, 2021 19:39:08 GMT -6
Martin Luther King Jr was truly a special soul. In honor of MLK you can use the promo code "MLK blessed us all!" This will discount the Serrano 87 by $100. The promo code will be valid until Sunday, Jan. 24.
All orders will be shipping the week of Jan 25.
Happy and joyful recording!
Carlos
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Post by Ward on Jan 17, 2021 19:57:16 GMT -6
Martin Luther King Jr was truly a special soul. In honor of MLK you can use the promo code "MLK blessed us all!" This will discount the Serrano 87 by $100. The promo code will be valid until Sunday, Jan. 24. All orders will be shipping the week of Jan 25. Happy and joyful recording! Carlos Who else is excited besides me? I can't wait to put mine up against the '73 87 and the 1987 87ai I have. |
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Post by teejay on Jan 17, 2021 23:37:33 GMT -6
Martin Luther King Jr was truly a special soul. In honor of MLK you can use the promo code "MLK blessed us all!" This will discount the Serrano 87 by $100. The promo code will be valid until Sunday, Jan. 24. All orders will be shipping the week of Jan 25. Happy and joyful recording! Carlos I have all the mics I need. This isn't the mic I'm looking for. "You need this 87." "I don't need this 87." "You need this 87." "I need this 87." This is what I get for watching all 11 Star Wars episodes in chronological order plus both Mandalorian series since Christmas. Please don't tell me to reach out with my feelings, or it's all over. |
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Post by the other mark williams on Jan 17, 2021 23:43:51 GMT -6
I’ve been working on some proper demos with this for the past couple nights after everyone else in the house is asleep. It’s going to still be a couple more days before I can post anything useful.
My early report is that it handles transients quite differently than the Soyuz and the Stam 67. It is also leaner in the low mids than either of those.
Examples soon, my friends.
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Post by ericn on Jan 18, 2021 11:40:07 GMT -6
Martin Luther King Jr was truly a special soul. In honor of MLK you can use the promo code "MLK blessed us all!" This will discount the Serrano 87 by $100. The promo code will be valid until Sunday, Jan. 24. All orders will be shipping the week of Jan 25. Happy and joyful recording! Carlos I have all the mics I need. This isn't the mic I'm looking for. "You need this 87." "I don't need this 87." "You need this 87." "I need this 87." This is what I get for watching all 11 Star Wars episodes in chronological order plus both Mandalorian series since Christmas. Please don't tell me to reach out with my feelings, or it's all over. I’ll add to the voice s in your head “ you probably need this mic”. |
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Post by drumsound on Jan 19, 2021 1:43:04 GMT -6
All riiiiiiiiight, everybody - I met Carlos today in Chapel Hill. Super, super kind and friendly guy. Had a really good time talking with him. I got the mic. I'm pretty busy over the next 4-5 days, but if I have a chance, I'm hoping to do something similar to last time with the Soyuz vs. Stam 67 thread. Wanted to get you guys' thoughts, though: Would you like to hear the Serrano 87 compared to the Soyuz? Or the Stam 67? Or both? If both, then I'll have to use my interface pres, b/c I don't have three of any other pres right now. What do y'all want to hear? All 3 please. No worries about simple interface pres. |
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Post by the other mark williams on Jan 19, 2021 2:38:17 GMT -6
All riiiiiiiiight, everybody - I met Carlos today in Chapel Hill. Super, super kind and friendly guy. Had a really good time talking with him. I got the mic. I'm pretty busy over the next 4-5 days, but if I have a chance, I'm hoping to do something similar to last time with the Soyuz vs. Stam 67 thread. Wanted to get you guys' thoughts, though: Would you like to hear the Serrano 87 compared to the Soyuz? Or the Stam 67? Or both? If both, then I'll have to use my interface pres, b/c I don't have three of any other pres right now. What do y'all want to hear? All 3 please. No worries about simple interface pres. I’m *almost* finished with the tracking for three songs with all three mics simultaneously. On two of them I used my Metric Halo pres for all three mics, and one song I selected the pre in my arsenal that I thought might best fit each mic. I should have them mixed down and posted by Thursday or Friday. I’m looking forward to the results... |
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Post by kcatthedog on Jan 19, 2021 3:47:05 GMT -6
Martin Luther King Jr was truly a special soul. In honor of MLK you can use the promo code "MLK blessed us all!" This will discount the Serrano 87 by $100. The promo code will be valid until Sunday, Jan. 24. All orders will be shipping the week of Jan 25. Happy and joyful recording! Carlos I have all the mics I need. This isn't the mic I'm looking for. "You need this 87." "I don't need this 87." "You need this 87." "I need this 87." This is what I get for watching all 11 Star Wars episodes in chronological order plus both Mandalorian series since Christmas. Please don't tell me to reach out with my feelings, or it's all over. Don’t be selfish, the economy needs stimulus spending: Rosie says do your bit !  |
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Post by Ward on Jan 19, 2021 6:14:41 GMT -6
Don’t be selfish, the economy needs stimulus spending: Rosie says do your bit ! I'm sure Carlos needs stimulus spending too! Who is Rosie? |
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Post by kcatthedog on Jan 19, 2021 7:35:52 GMT -6
Rosie the riveter! Ah, WWII , the war effort: remember ? |
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Post by kcatthedog on Jan 19, 2021 7:38:05 GMT -6
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Post by Ward on Jan 19, 2021 8:54:41 GMT -6
Rosie the riveter! Ah, WWII , the war effort: remember ? That went completely over my head. LOL |
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Post by teejay on Jan 19, 2021 9:02:01 GMT -6
Rosie the riveter! Ah, WWII , the war effort: remember ? That went completely over my head. LOL Understandably. You have to be: 1. Old, 2. American |
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Post by kcatthedog on Jan 19, 2021 9:33:04 GMT -6
The image has been parodied ( in the best sense of the word) a fair bit over the year’s: always to show taking initiative and stepping up ! |
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Post by jcoutu1 on Jan 19, 2021 10:50:40 GMT -6
That went completely over my head. LOL Understandably. You have to be: 1. Old, 2. American Kcatt isn't American though... |
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Post by kcatthedog on Jan 19, 2021 11:27:37 GMT -6
Shss, I’ve been sorta passing, just don’t ask Ragan about my Ottawa report, I’d be in big USA cred doo doo! |
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Post by the other mark williams on Jan 20, 2021 20:02:16 GMT -6
OK, the shootout is becoming more involved. I got to hang out with Carlos for awhile today, and let me just say again what a nice person he is. I mean, super easy to communicate with, and very generous. I had a couple of things to discuss with him about my mic: - I was having trouble with the shockmount binding up when screwing it on the mic, but Carlos set me straight and now it's totally fine.
- The badge on my mic popped off when I was wrestling it out of the locked-up shockmount at my house. He just swapped me out a new body tube with the badge on it. Looks great now. This wouldn't have happened if I'd used the shockmount differently from the beginning.
Really the biggest issue I was having, though, was that the mic was a little brighter than I wanted it. According to Carlos, my particular mic had been tuned to be just a tad brighter than a vintage U87. Today, he re-tuned the circuit to make the mic a tad darker than a vintage U87. I'm hoping to plug it in tonight to hear it. The bad news about this is that I've already recorded 3 songs with the original circuit: 3 lead vocals and two acoustic guitars on every song. For you guys to hear the freshly tuned (darker) mic, I'm going to have to re-record some stuff or just record another song. Maybe I'll just record another song, actually. That makes more sense. Then you'll be able to hear a brighter Serrano 87 and a darker Serrano 87. See which one you like more. The good news about this is that it means Carlos can tune your Serrano 87 to your liking. If you want to order a darker 87, he can do that. If you want a brighter one, he can do that instead. I think he's still deciding the most efficient way to accommodate this kind of request, so I'll invite him back in on this thread to discuss it with everybody. cserrano : I hope I'm not misrepresenting anything above. P.S.: And guys, he's starting to work on his next mic now... P.P.S.: And seriously, great customer support all around on this situation. Couldn't have asked for a better outcome. |
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Post by kcatthedog on Jan 20, 2021 20:07:42 GMT -6
Be interesting to hear the same tracks re recorded get a sense of the bright dark range ?
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Post by ericn on Jan 20, 2021 20:16:00 GMT -6
OK, the shootout is becoming more involved. I got to hang out with Carlos for awhile today, and let me just say again what a nice person he is. I mean, super easy to communicate with, and very generous. I had a couple of things to discuss with him about my mic: - I was having trouble with the shockmount binding up when screwing it on the mic, but Carlos set me straight and now it's totally fine.
- The badge on my mic popped off when I was wrestling it out of the locked-up shockmount at my house. He just swapped me out a new body tube with the badge on it. Looks great now. This wouldn't have happened if I'd used the shockmount differently from the beginning.
Really the biggest issue I was having, though, was that the mic was a little brighter than I wanted it. According to Carlos, my particular mic had been tuned to be just a tad brighter than a vintage U87. Today, he re-tuned the circuit to make the mic a tad darker than a vintage U87. I'm hoping to plug it in tonight to hear it. The bad news about this is that I've already recorded 3 songs with the original circuit: 3 lead vocals and two acoustic guitars on every song. For you guys to hear the freshly tuned (darker) mic, I'm going to have to re-record some stuff or just record another song. Maybe I'll just record another song, actually. That makes more sense. Then you'll be able to hear a brighter Serrano 87 and a darker Serrano 87. See which one you like more. The good news about this is that it means Carlos can tune your Serrano 87 to your liking. If you want to order a darker 87, he can do that. If you want a brighter one, he can do that instead. I think he's still deciding the most efficient way to accommodate this kind of request, so I'll invite him back in on this thread to discuss it with everybody. cserrano : I hope I'm not misrepresenting anything above. P.S.: And guys, he's starting to work on his next mic now... P.P.S.: And seriously, great customer support all around on this situation. Couldn't have asked for a better outcome. Now these are the stories we want to hear! |
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Post by gwlee7 on Jan 20, 2021 20:22:48 GMT -6
Ok, so far we have a great poster (Mark) telling us about a great mic from a great guy (Carlos), at a great price that can be tuned to your liking. This thread was awesome to begin with and just keeps getting better and better.
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Post by chessparov on Jan 20, 2021 23:37:50 GMT -6
Just curious...
I wonder what Carlos would think about a Special Edition Serrano 87 eventually, with a 3 position switch (Bright/Neutral/Dark)?
Chris
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Post by the other mark williams on Jan 20, 2021 23:46:13 GMT -6
Be interesting to hear the same tracks re recorded get a sense of the bright dark range ? That was my first thought, as well, and maybe I could do that, too. It’s just that different performances on different days can obviously sound very different. Might be difficult to know what’s the performance vs. what’s the mic change. I’m hoping you’ll be able to tell the bright/dark range by me recording a new song or two — again with direct comparisons to the Stam 67 and Soyuz 019. I should also note that Carlos said he could take my 87 even darker if I want to. We’ll see how the next couple days go... |
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Post by ragan on Jan 21, 2021 0:20:17 GMT -6
Just curious... I wonder what Carlos would think about a Special Edition Serrano 87 eventually, with a 3 position switch (Bright/Neutral/Dark)? Chris Like a Warbler <thumbsup> |
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