IAA 622

I've not been completely stagnant over the last decade, I have been involved in the more eastern super shiny hi-fi pop sorta thing and generally dynamics suck at that genre (C800, 251 or a U89 (with lots of processing) that's where that genre lives. So that's kind of where my mindset comes from in regards to dynamics but my engineering mate says the IAA + M88 sounds like me and usually to get a sample of "me" I'd be looking for a stupidly priced TLM 170 which is going here for about $3K nowadays.

I mean with monitors the M88 has just about as much feedback as condenser so that says something, I'm not sure what it says but that's urr something. Anyway, I would happily use this mic on Vox, bass or some other instruments for the super shiny overly produced music with the IAA. Also despite my engineering mate saying it sounds like me I personally think it does helps a bit, takes the edge off maybe like most dynamics do but it's not without a lack of clarity or sensitivity either. This combo has thrown my world into dissarray, also as we are learning things it turns out the SSL's big six VCA one knob sounded super umm awesome with this combo, don't get me started on the SSL "proper" VCA. I think there's literally one thing I don't like about the BS now and it's the thing it's most tooted for, the preamps.

My word Beyer, you like to make things interesting. They always proclaimed the Senn MD441 as the "condenser" replacement but I think they really got it wrong.