Does anyone use this for a mic?

Originally Posted by 10s :
"Yes the M-Audio Sputnik is fantastic new mic. It's a new and inexpensive U47!."

tigeba said:
Ok, let's not go crazy here :)
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Right - it's not a U47, only a U47 is! But the Sputnik is a remarkably worthy competitor to it for a very small fraction of the price.

It's the biggest "game-changer" mic I've ever heard, and I've been listening to high end studio mics for a long, long time...

YMMV
 
Ted Spencer said:
Originally Posted by 10s :
"Yes the M-Audio Sputnik is fantastic new mic. It's a new and inexpensive U47!."



Right - it's not a U47, only a U47 is! But the Sputnik is a remarkably worthy competitor to it for a very small fraction of the price.

It's the biggest "game-changer" mic I've ever heard, and I've been listening to high end studio mics for a long, long time...

YMMV
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I agree the Sputnik is a game changer, but then again I decided this after HEARING the Sputnik next to a U47 instead of dismissing it. It should be no shock that someone can rival 1940 post-war German technology. Part of the challenge has been replicating the ceramic military tube no longer manufactured. Now we need a low cost C-12.
 
DVXnNYC said:
Oleg - Thanks for the reply. Would you then recommend something like this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Schoeps-CMT-441...VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em118Q2el1247

(in case link doesn't work: a schoeps CMT 441)
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dont really worth more then 600usd
probably at lest 35 years old
the 12 to 48 adaptor anoing if you have mixer which doesnt support 12 t , the amount of ma is hudge , not every mixer or camera would supply about 10ma that mic need , so the mic would not work properly
no low cut filter to cut directly on the preamp for boom rumbling .
look for gefell 210 or neuman 150 , they are in more reasonabl prics , the sound as good as you can get
 
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I've got a U47. It's a great mic, no doubt. One of the greatest vocal mics ever made.

A Sputnik sounds different than that, but so does a C12, an ELAM 251, an M49, etc., not to mention *another* U47.

Point is, Sputnik can be discussed seriously in the same sentence with those, and that's pretty much unprecedented at anywhere near that price point.
 
10s said:
I agree the Sputnik is a game changer, but then again I decided this after HEARING the Sputnik next to a U47 instead of dismissing it. It should be no shock that someone can rival 1940 post-war German technology. Part of the challenge has been replicating the ceramic military tube no longer manufactured. Now we need a low cost C-12.
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I'm not knocking the Sputnik as I am sure it is a great mic. It's design is pretty much nothing like a U47 other than it is a microphone :)

Nobody has yet replicated the Telefunken VF14 STEEL tubes. I don't believe this is the case for the Sputnik either, which I believe uses a NOS Phillips or Raytheon tube. I think Telefunken USA or Tab-funkenwork might be trying to make the VF14's as they currently go for insane money (on the order of $500-1000 or more).

There are some mics on the market that use Telefunken EF14 tubes (Pearlman TM1, Peluso 2247LE). Depending on who you ask, this is a great substitute or a really crappy and unsuitable tube for a microphone. It is debatable if these much closer mics inspired by a U47 really sound anything like a U47. As Ted mentioned, it also depends on which U47 you happen to be comparing.

If you want something that is vaguely C-12-ish, you might check out the Peluso P12. It has some of that top end flavor that a vintage C-12 is known for without the vintage price.
 
Steel tubes? that's even better, you got to admire german engineers-- it's been 23 years since I looked into one of these mics, you're probably correct.

The Sputnik is a welcomed inexpensive U47/48 sounding mic. I'm sure blind tests would fool most listeners.

Peluso seem to be great mics along with a whole host of others mfg. in the last 12 years. Oleg mentions Geffell and those are up there with the Neumanns.

My favorite wierd mic was a neumann wooden head (model?) with mics in each ear. I remember using it for stereo recordings of large turbine power generators in a dam back in the 1970s. The engineers at the dam had to come see this wierd guy with an even stranger mic. ;)
 
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