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Post by stormymondays on Feb 27, 2019 13:45:13 GMT -6
If one arrives to Funky Junk in London by this week, I might walk away with it on Monday! I’m visiting from Spain for a vocal mic shootout.
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Post by stormymondays on Feb 25, 2019 16:43:50 GMT -6
So what are the go-to uses of a V72 pre? Never used one. Would it make sense to get four of them?
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Post by stormymondays on Feb 25, 2019 15:58:38 GMT -6
and ESPECIALLY the JOLY K47H LDC caps!! Those are to die for!! Sold out many months ago, never to be available again. I have one, it would have been cool to have a pair. It kills on Front-Of-Kit position. And I made a whole record with it when it was my only vocal mic, it wasn't bad at all.
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Post by stormymondays on Feb 24, 2019 3:46:06 GMT -6
Can’t agree with that. There’s no playback device that sounds like the Mixcube, past or current.
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Post by stormymondays on Feb 23, 2019 6:13:42 GMT -6
Just so I'm not constantly praising the KM84, I tried it yesterday on vocals for a melodic/classical singer and it didn't work for him. It seemed to accentuate all the wrong frequencies. I could still have made a record with it, mind you, but it was definitely the wrong mic.
In the end, the humble SM7B won the shootout, go figure!
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Post by stormymondays on Feb 23, 2019 3:18:17 GMT -6
In my studio, the 409 sounds killer. The 906 sounds acceptable. I sold it, then bought it again at half-off as a useful live mic.
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Post by stormymondays on Feb 22, 2019 3:11:15 GMT -6
I think of it as a 3-way speaker that has the highs and the lows broken The point for me is not that it sounds bad - I don't think it does! It's severely band limited but the frequencies it does have ARE high fidelity, and the sealed enclosure means no time-domain smearing. The way I see it, you take away all the "impressive" parts of your mix (shiny highs, thundering lows) and are left with the mix itself.
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Post by stormymondays on Feb 22, 2019 3:07:52 GMT -6
If you do not feel comfortable evaluating the mic by itself in your familiar environs, and intuitively like it or don't (my criteria any day!) it would be ideal to have a Neumann mic with the same K67/870 capsule as a comparator. Never mind subtleties like transparency or high frequency response, but what's crucial is that, as you switch back and forth, you like the level of the Reissue's low end, compared to a mic with a good K67/870/87 from a period where low end was not an issue. I'll be evaluating it in a studio environment but not mine, I'm travelling to London for it and will be testing a bunch of mics. Hopefully they might be able to source a vintage U87. Would comparing to a current U87Ai make any sense?
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Post by stormymondays on Feb 22, 2019 2:39:53 GMT -6
Thank you and welcome, Klaus! I'll add to the deluge of questions: I'm going to be testing a U67 reissue in about 10 days - with the intention of buying! Are there any tell-tale signs of a "good" capsule? I've only sung through a 67 back in 2002 (I loved it!) so I can't rely on my experience too much...
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Post by stormymondays on Feb 21, 2019 9:22:09 GMT -6
Agree about the phasey top of the Oktavas. Usually it goes away with a slight reposition of the mic.
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Post by stormymondays on Feb 20, 2019 16:49:15 GMT -6
Yep I think I dug up the wrong thread. Wasn’t there a thread about noise cancelling headphones recently?
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Post by stormymondays on Feb 20, 2019 13:45:31 GMT -6
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Post by stormymondays on Feb 20, 2019 7:39:24 GMT -6
My room is very well treated with a pro design. I don't have a picture of my curve handy but Sonarworks still has work to do, and it works great for me. I don't see any use in trying to correct the Mixcube. In fact, usually I don't bother to turn off the correction of the mains when I switch to it.
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Post by stormymondays on Feb 20, 2019 3:04:48 GMT -6
I don’t correct mine. I don’t think you could/should correct it.
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Post by stormymondays on Feb 19, 2019 16:10:21 GMT -6
To me the better question is how much do you need to pay to get a very good and useable sdc and is the Warm in that group and I think the answer is yes. I'd be happy to make records with the Avantone SDC which costs about $100. I liked it better than a Warbler (which I sold) and as much as my Joly modded Oktava! If you want pure value, no need to get the Warm offering at 4x the price. By the way, even though I have a pair of KM84 now, I'm not selling my Oktavas or the lowly Avantone!
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Post by stormymondays on Feb 18, 2019 9:06:11 GMT -6
What is camilla’s Email? Camilla@stamaudio.com? camila@stamaudio.com
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Post by stormymondays on Feb 17, 2019 12:53:38 GMT -6
IMO the electronics are super important. Order the kit from StewMac with CTS pots and sprague cap.
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Post by stormymondays on Feb 17, 2019 12:12:09 GMT -6
Lindy Fralin ..... I am a long time session bassist and nerd so I have tried everything. Would you suggest bothering with swapping pickups or just investing in a better instrument? Playability is not paramount for me because I’m not a bassist - just play the bass. (If that makes any sense) but I have found in many cases that a lot of the problems you have when you “go cheap” magically get solved when you buy the real thing. You have the Squier Fiesta Red 60s vibe, right? I’ve seen that bass compared to Pino Palladino’s custom shop model. It’s legendary in the Squier line, and currently unobtanium. Put some good pickups and electronics on it!
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Post by stormymondays on Feb 17, 2019 10:05:43 GMT -6
The performance and recording of the song was just fantastic! I'm saving rack space (and dough!) for this.
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Post by stormymondays on Feb 17, 2019 10:02:29 GMT -6
I gotta say. It's pretty disappointing how no matter what thread, if Stam is involved be it feedback or new gear, alot of people here have the mob mentality and it disolves into what's happening now. It's very annoying. I'm not a Stam owner but a potential customer. It's well documented on the wait times. I don't think it's necessary to bring up all this crap every time all the time. Dare I say...it's very gearslutz of you all. Let it go. Or start a thread where you can all rant and rave. This one is about the 4000eq. Not bad la2as Ouch, that hurt! The last thing I'd want is for this forum to remotely resemble "that other place". So apologies for my off-topic comments, and I'll take this as a chance to stay away from any further Stam comments. Let's keep the negativity away from RGO!
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Post by stormymondays on Feb 17, 2019 9:00:24 GMT -6
I’d venture a guess about the number of Warm and Golden Age units that have caught fire: zero.
I’ll post a picture of the SA2A guts. Build quality is fair but nothing to write home about. Most of the parts are good but not all. Chinese power transformer. No name VU. Acceptable solder work. Jacks are PCB mounted and not secured to the chassis, you can feel the PCB bend when you plug them in. Chassis mounted tubes give you the creeps when removing them, that arrangement is not going to last many tube changes without breaking. There’s an IC driving the VU meter (fine by me, but authentic build it is not). The chassis has vents on the sides of the cover but not on the sides of the chassis, so those vents serve no purpose. He’s just reusing a part or got shipped the wrong one.
I’ll stop here. It’s just budget gear with a few upgraded parts, at below-market prices.
Just to be fair: the unit does sound pretty good. I am going to compare it to other units eventually. We’ll see how it fares.
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Post by stormymondays on Feb 17, 2019 5:56:48 GMT -6
Is the QC comment actually fair? I have seen some issues reported but the very very large majority seem to eventually get units that function well and that they are pleased with ? I certainly see other companies that also have some reported qa issues, are Stam’s truely worse. I don’t know that that is the case ? We also know that he has strengthened his international tech support over the last year . He was happy to claim publicly that “only” two SA2A had caught fire. That does it for me. Mine arrived with a very noticeable 50Hz hum. That’s QC right there. Also mine didn’t have the VU meter even remotely calibrated. However, Golden Age and Warm Audio ship with their meters perfectly calibrated. Oh I also forgot to mention that writing and printing instruction manuals costs money too. More savings!
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Post by stormymondays on Feb 17, 2019 4:34:11 GMT -6
He’s also making the best gear for the price. Gee, I wonder how! Maybe by saving on customer support, company financing, marketing (because his products are the talk of the town for a year!), quality control, shall I go on? Cue sarcastic response from the owner of the company in 3-2-1...
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Post by stormymondays on Feb 15, 2019 12:24:29 GMT -6
About the same as yours, 24x22x9 roughly. It was purpose built and treated by a pro studio designer but it’s not a fancy design at all.
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Post by stormymondays on Feb 15, 2019 12:05:12 GMT -6
Dual purpose room here and I love it. I also record my own band often. I would never settle for two small, bad sounding rooms instead. Fix the main room!
I hardly use cans to get sounds. Just press record and then listen to the playback. Takes a couple more minutes, but so does running from the CR to the live room!
Sometimes l’ll announce what I’m doing on the mic: “ok, here’s the mic on the grille of the amp (play) now it’s one feet back (play)” etc. In a couple passes you have covered all the positioning choices.
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