My brother is a live performance and session jazz musician. He records a few artists as well his own group. He is in his sixties and has a lot of accumulated stuff and like many of us, his mic locker never gets smaller, ever. But he has been generous with me with some gear he doesn't use anymore. So for a while I have been looking at large condensers, mostly for a VO mic or maybe some music video applications. I've tried quite a few for VO (Heil, EV, and others) and never been very pleased with any of them. So out of the blue he says, I've got this set of large condensers, why don't you just take them. Really?
Ok so they aren't high end mics or anything, they are older model CAD M-37. I plugged one into a good preamp and recorded a couple of spoken word clips to a cpu. Playback was instantly rewarding. It had that nice 60s FM radio sound which I've been looking for. I suspect a high end large condenser would sound better yet, but dang, this cheap older model mic is a sleeper.
I learned one thing from this and that is to let your ears do the deciding instead of thinking the higher price mic will always serve you better. Read that last sentence carefully, usually high end gear is better, but what you really need might be different.
Clean out your closets and clean your ears.
Grant
Ok so they aren't high end mics or anything, they are older model CAD M-37. I plugged one into a good preamp and recorded a couple of spoken word clips to a cpu. Playback was instantly rewarding. It had that nice 60s FM radio sound which I've been looking for. I suspect a high end large condenser would sound better yet, but dang, this cheap older model mic is a sleeper.
I learned one thing from this and that is to let your ears do the deciding instead of thinking the higher price mic will always serve you better. Read that last sentence carefully, usually high end gear is better, but what you really need might be different.
Clean out your closets and clean your ears.
Grant
