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Originally Posted by The Byre
I suppose the flippant reply would be to say the Neumann M149, which is a breath-takingly good microphone. But at £3k it bloody well better be!
No, my heart goes out to those cheap mics that do one or two things brilliantly. The Audix D6 on kick. The AKG D202 and D222 (cheap on eBay) on toms, cabs and brass, the Neuman 104 and 105 on vocals, the DPA 4061 on all kinds of things, especially when used as a boundry mic. The AKG C391 as a stereo pair on just about anything.
All FAR cheaper than the better Chinese jobs - and far better as well!
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I hired in a M149 for a project where the singer insisted on having one. Waste of money, she sounded so bad through it she ended up recording through my sontronics orpheus-a snip at £399 and great at vocals and kick drum. It was plain she'd never sang through a M149 before and had listened to a bedroom engineer who had told her it was the bollox based an the fact it was the most expensive mic that he could remember the name of!