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Røde NT-1
I don't normally paste quotes from Wikipedia, but I ran across this today and thought it was worth sharing. The Rode NT-1A is a popular starter condenser among home recordists - I have one - and one of the first of the Shanghai-manufactured microphones. It's a decent mic for not much money. I'd always wondered about the odd spelling of the company name "Røde", so this morning I decided to look it up. Here's the story... Sales of the modified microphone began to take off in Sydney, which (in the Australian vernacular) was likened to “a rat up a drain pipe”. This gave lend to the unofficial title the ‘Rodent-1’, which was later broken up to become the RODE NT-1. Peter Freedman dropped in the ‘Ø’ character as a salute to his Scandinavian heritage, and Rode was born. The Swedish connection is that Peter Freedman had grown up in Stockholm, although his parents were British.
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/08 12:47:43
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That's interesting. Thanks, Bit.
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/08 15:26:06
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Ha! I guess you never know what will inspire you to name something. 
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/09 08:44:48
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So, it's not pronounced like "road" but more like "red"? I can't think of any English words that have a sound like the 'Ø' character.
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/09 14:08:41
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I'm sure glad they didn't call it the Rodent...Rode sounds much better. Who knows though, might have still sold well. The geiko lizard seems to have made a great mascot for the insurance company by the same name.
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/09 19:38:05
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My Rode Video Stereo Mic for a camera - camcorder has a 10 year warranty, so Rodent away I guess. 
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/09 19:53:28
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Thanks Bit - very interesting. I just got my pair of Rode M5's.
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/09 20:33:58
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Very happy with my Rode NT1, pair of m5's and NT55's.
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/10 10:00:53
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The NT-1 has its uses. I still get mine out on occasion, as it sounds great on some other peoples' voices - just not mine. Unless I'm going for an intentionally sharp, thin-sounding vocal. It works OK on acoustic guitar. I wouldn't stick it up next to a guitar speaker. I probably wouldn't use it on a female vocal, but you never know.
One of the unexpected advantages of the NT-1 is its light weight. Yeah, it feels cheap in your hand, it's prone to picking up rumble and handling noise. But it's much less likely to cause a stand to tip over!
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/10 10:49:32
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bitflipper
I don't normally paste quotes from Wikipedia, but I ran across this today and thought it was worth sharing.
The Rode NT-1A is a popular starter condenser among home recordists - I have one - and one of the first of the Shanghai-manufactured microphones. It's a decent mic for not much money. I'd always wondered about the odd spelling of the company name "Røde", so this morning I decided to look it up. Here's the story...
Sales of the modified microphone began to take off in Sydney, which (in the Australian vernacular) was likened to “a rat up a drain pipe”. This gave lend to the unofficial title the ‘Rodent-1’, which was later broken up to become the RODE NT-1. Peter Freedman dropped in the ‘Ø’ character as a salute to his Scandinavian heritage, and Rode was born.
The Swedish connection is that Peter Freedman had grown up in Stockholm, although his parents were British.
The Swedish Ø connection was a bit strange since the Swedish Ø is written like the German, an O With two dots over it. The Ø like that is Norwegian and Danish. It is prononced like the u in the English words turn and burn.
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/10 14:27:05
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Maybe an error in the description?
I was tracing my lineage and it leads to that area.... it's confusing to an American or at least to me because I'm not even sure which language I would need to learn in order to communicate over there. I'm learning German which I understood to be Europes universal tounge but it seems there are many different types of German. My neighbors are old order Amish and the German/Dutch they speak is different than there...to make it even more confusing if I visited Scandinavia , there seem to be different languages spoken within a several hundred mile radius.Norweigian is a totally different language.
Swedish and German are fairly close though aren't they?
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/10 14:53:24
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Maybe he thought the Norwegian and Danish Ø was cooler?
Norwegian, Danish and Swedish are similar languages, we can in general speak to eacher, but the Danes have a very different accent so they can be hard to understand. For most Scandinavians English is the second language.
I can watch English and Swedish movies without subtitles, but not Danish.
German is very different, I don`t understand it. I think in many ways English is closer to Scandinavian than German since German has a more complex grammar.
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/11 12:08:31
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☄ Helpfulby craigb 2014/04/11 14:56:02
So, if I build a really crappy microphone and people liken it to “a gerbil in a cardboard tube”, I could name the microphone Anäls EX-1.
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/11 12:32:09
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Johannes H, sorry for my ignorance on this,and thanks for clearing that up. When I attended school, second and third languages were an elective and not a prerequisite.And at the time I never elected to take them. Now I think that learning second languages are a requirement. I wonder if the Danish accent is similar to say cockney English in that it's not the words so much as they way they are pronounced. Here in the US, I moved from the south and the northerners thought I sounded funny,but then the southerners think the northerners sound odd. Happens here too I guess......anyways...sorry to derail a thread about Rode microphones At least they didn't call it a rod microphone...Craig...don't
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/11 14:45:58
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Maybe because "o" with the dots would lead German-speakers to pronounce the company's name as "rude"?
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/11 15:02:37
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At least they didn't call it a rod microphone...Craig...don't
That would only work if the mic had multiple states of operation: Ribbon, then dynamic and, finally, condenser. Ya? (I would also appreciate it if you didn't shape the windscreen like Darth Vader's hat.) 
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/12 10:25:10
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Rude Mike.........
@Starise, from a Norwegian point of view the the Danish accent and also pronountiation sounds a little "blur",
but on the other hand it`s easier to read Danish than Swedish.
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/12 16:17:33
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Johannes H
...but on the other hand it`s easier to read Danish than Swedish.
But, more importantly, which tastes better? Danishes or Swedish meatballs??? (For me it's a tie - just not at the same time! )
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/14 12:18:17
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Johannes H
Rude Mike.........
@Starise, from a Norwegian point of view the the Danish accent and also pronountiation sounds a little "blur",
but on the other hand it`s easier to read Danish than Swedish.
Johannes, My translation of this comment might be wrong, but it seems as if the Norwegians think the Danish have a drawl The differences are interesting. It's all good...as long as we can be understood and understand. I sometimes have a tough time understanding some of the English I hear. The other day I heard , "duckuper" I translated." There's a duck up there"...it was really " It's dark up there". Who knows...maybe I'm loosing my hearing.
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/14 12:33:23
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I'm sure glad they didn't call it the Rodent...Rode sounds much better. Who knows though, might have still sold well. The geiko lizard seems to have made a great mascot for the insurance company by the same name.
[pedantic] GEICO is the name of the company, not Geiko. it's an acronym: Government Employees Insurance Company. a Gecko is a type of lizard which is supposedly modelled for the company mascot of GEICO. and while there are many varieties of geckos in the world, the ones which live on my patio and in my mailbox don't look anything like the one on TV which appears to be approximately 6' to 8" tall, is primarily green and walks on two feet. Geckos in our area are rust colored (helps them hide in the clay/sandy soil) no stripes or spots and definitely do not have a New Zealand accent. Maybe a slight Latin flavor, but most definitely American. [/pedantic]
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/14 13:30:56
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Beagle: A pooch of the pendantic variety. 
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/14 14:05:42
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Here is a Norwegian comedy group making fun of the Danish Language, it`s mostly in English with a Danish like accent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk. (If there are any Danes here I hope you have good sense of humour).
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/15 10:36:48
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/15 12:08:00
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It has become a classic here.
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/15 14:16:31
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Beagle
[pedantic]
GEICO is the name of the company, not Geiko. it's an acronym: Government Employees Insurance Company.
a Gecko is a type of lizard which is supposedly modelled for the company mascot of GEICO. and while there are many varieties of geckos in the world, the ones which live on my patio and in my mailbox don't look anything like the one on TV which appears to be approximately 6' to 8" tall, is primarily green and walks on two feet.
Geckos in our area are rust colored (helps them hide in the clay/sandy soil) no stripes or spots and definitely do not have a New Zealand accent. Maybe a slight Latin flavor, but most definitely American.
[/pedantic]
[pedantic] The GEICO Gecko featured on TV would be approximately 6" to 8" tall, not six feet to eight inches tall. [/pedantic] In addition, I don't want to know how you would know that the Geckos in your area have a Latin flavor. I prefer not to speculate.
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/15 16:57:45
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Didn't Rode get their start by modding Asian (Chinese) mics? Then later started to manufacture their own mics.
I never seem to her anything bad about the NT-1 .. I guess that is good.
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/15 17:12:21
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Beagle
[pedantic]
GEICO is the name of the company, not Geiko. it's an acronym: Government Employees Insurance Company.
a Gecko is a type of lizard which is supposedly modelled for the company mascot of GEICO. and while there are many varieties of geckos in the world, the ones which live on my patio and in my mailbox don't look anything like the one on TV which appears to be approximately 6' to 8" tall, is primarily green and walks on two feet.
Geckos in our area are rust colored (helps them hide in the clay/sandy soil) no stripes or spots and definitely do not have a New Zealand accent. Maybe a slight Latin flavor, but most definitely American.
[/pedantic]
[pedantic]
The GEICO Gecko featured on TV would be approximately 6" to 8" tall, not six feet to eight inches tall.
[/pedantic]
In addition, I don't want to know how you would know that the Geckos in your area have a Latin flavor. I prefer not to speculate.
Yes, as Spinal Tap also discovered, correctly distinguishing between ' for feet and " for inches is important. 
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/15 19:34:25
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Didn't Rode get their start by modding Asian (Chinese) mics? Then later started to manufacture their own mics.
I never seem to her anything bad about the NT-1 .. I guess that is good.
J
They are still manufactured in Shanghai. At least the NT1's are. Want to hear something bad? Accidentally bump or tap the stand while you're recording. On a high-end mike that'll produce an editable "thunk". On the NT1 it's more of a sustained "boink" because the body has all the mass of a beer can. Still, I happen to like the NT1. I just don't hold it in my hand while using it.
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Re: Røde NT-1
2014/04/15 19:49:54
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When the first came out, I believe they were white... I jumped on it as it was the leader of the pack of LDC hitting the scene, if I remember. It was honky sounding and I think I sent it back to Musicians Friend, or wherever I got it, within a week. I then got a MXL2001....or it was the other way around. Just as bad. I really tried to use them on stuff, as I'm really not that picky about mics. But mine had the sound like it was having phase cancellation ...or in big metal room... Not that extreme, but hints of that kind of sound. Another item in that "era" was the ART MP *tube* mic preamp. It was horrible too. Maybe I get the junk, that was returned previously!
Thinking more... maybe it was the NT1A...and even a different model. But nowadays, lots of people seem to like the NT1.
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Re: Røde NT-1
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Beagle
[pedantic]
GEICO is the name of the company, not Geiko. it's an acronym: Government Employees Insurance Company.
a Gecko is a type of lizard which is supposedly modelled for the company mascot of GEICO. and while there are many varieties of geckos in the world, the ones which live on my patio and in my mailbox don't look anything like the one on TV which appears to be approximately 6' to 8" tall, is primarily green and walks on two feet.
Geckos in our area are rust colored (helps them hide in the clay/sandy soil) no stripes or spots and definitely do not have a New Zealand accent. Maybe a slight Latin flavor, but most definitely American.
[/pedantic]
[pedantic]
The GEICO Gecko featured on TV would be approximately 6" to 8" tall, not six feet to eight inches tall.
[/pedantic]
In addition, I don't want to know how you would know that the Geckos in your area have a Latin flavor. I prefer not to speculate.
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