Preview of my Signal Art U48 Review

Sounds good. What processing (besides reverb) is happening on this?

I took a few notches out for resonances around 2.5 and 3.5. But other than the reverb, that’s it.

Sounds great!
Chris

OPR. Chad said he thought it was the most authentic. I’d say it kinda sounds like an M7 imo. Always thought M7s were a little smaller on bottom - well, more frowny face curve

Sounds great John.

Yeah - it like it’s pre eq’d. I think id like a little more bottom and then be in charge of cutting that out myself.

It’s also occurred to me talking to stam the other day that I might be totally misleading when I talk about “low end.” Because I mostly only track vocals and acoustic instruments here at my place…so I guess I kind of use those things as my reference when talking about frequencies. So all this time I’ve been saying stuff like “the sta is really big on bottom.” Well, it’s big on the bottom of my vocal…so it’s actually the lower mids I’m probably talking about. Like 100-300 hz. Not 60 considering a vocal doesn’t reach that low. (The sta does actually add a lot of that lower octave on stuff like bass)

Chad’s information says this capsule has a bigger sub response than any of the other capsules - and I guess it doesn’t come up far enough to affect my vocal. Idk. I’d like to see a polar chart. The Heiserman k47 was huge on the bottom. To the point of being a little trouble dialing out of a vocal. I’d imagine some screws could be twisted to maybe give it a little more push in that bottom octave. BUT - like Martin John Butler said, I’d most likely be dialing it out anyway.

Does the Heiserman capsule have more low end? The Heiserman 47s have plenty of low end.

Love my Heisermen they sound almost as good as my original 47’s &48. I have a couple of Flea’s with Beesneez K7 which also sound great but the OPR sound the same in the top and the mids but bass lite.
I keep nearly buying CM7’s and then thinking why do I need more than 10 47’s. I’d like to hear a CM7 with a K49 though.

I absolutely adore my cdkelly 48! Every vocal track on an album I'm mixing now. had to brighten in the mix at times, but otherwise virtually nothing.

EDIT: That being said, I've heard recordings of you on a H47 and 251 and prefer those sounds to this one.

Mine has the OPR capsule which is allegedly like an M7 but sounds 50% M7 and 50% K47 to me.

Just Damn ! Chad nailed this one, his work with Warm & UT showed his talent on a budget, but this time he gave us a mic that can hang with the big boys at an exceptional price.

I sent him a PM saying I want to hear Vincent and Emily through one, what can I say I like to torture mics I really like😁