Middleman


There are 5:

Pearlman mentioned above
Telefunken AK 47
Telefunken AR51
Telefunken CU29
For some vocalists, not all, a TLM49.

Just kidding about the 5 but these would be my picks.

Definitely, googling, researching, much appreciated..  :-)

Go to http://www.pensadosplace.tv/category/episodes/ and listen to the mic shoout about 7 minutes in on the video from this week and last. I think the Telefunkens in this range sound amazing compared to the real Tele U47.

FYI, I just used my Oktava 319 w/ the Joly mods on a female vox.  Sounds really great - much more "open" than the pre-mod.  It sounds like a $1000 mic now.  I even strapped a couple of compessors into the chain following the vocal take to see how it reacted to being a mastered, finished peace (serial compression can really bring out the sibilance in the end).  The t's got hard and there was a little more sss, but not as much as before (or on preamps other than the Warm W12 I'm testing).

For less than $700 you are getting a keeper.

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Sounds like a high end mic now

AT


FYI, I just used my Oktava 319 w/ the Joly mods on a female vox.  Sounds really great - much more "open" than the pre-mod.  It sounds like a $1000 mic now.  I even strapped a couple of compessors into the chain following the vocal take to see how it reacted to being a mastered, finished peace (serial compression can really bring out the sibilance in the end).  The t's got hard and there was a little more sss, but not as much as before (or on preamps other than the Warm W12 I'm testing).

For less than $700 you are getting a keeper.

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Sounds like a high end mic now

Are you talking about this dude in Nashville?   http://oktavamod.com/

That looks way interesting.  You reckon I should explore that eh?   Looks interesting..   :-)




EDIT..  I bet your mic sounds hot as @#$#...  I totally wanna hear it!  This is really cool.  I'm thinking, "killer idea."

Linear,

right place, wrong city.  Oktavamod is based out of Cape Cod.

Yes, I'm very happy (so far) w/ the sound.  There is expectations involved and no I'm not doing any "scientific" shoot outs, but I tonight I re-recorded the vocal track for a song I had done previous to dropping the mic.  I can hear a difference.

I went ahead and had the whole shebang done - Premium Electronics and Dome.  I don't imagine that the last $100 electronic upgrade made a whole lot of difference - even Michael admits that, but I waited a couple of years to get this done and don't figure to get another main mic anytime soon.  The great thing is I only paid $100 for the 319 back in the great Guitar Center blow out days.

Tomorrow a guitarist is coming over to do a little amp work.  I should have a much better idea of how general purpose it is now.  Guitar (acoustic and electric) and vocals are mostly what I record here at home, and I know the vocals are taken care of now.  And I have a pair of SDC for the acoustics.

If you stay on top of E-bay you can get 319/219s pretty cheap.

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AT,

awesome!

Electric guitar about a foot from a little Roland amp sounded pretty much like the amp sounded in the room.  Lots o' cut.

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+1 for the Shure KSM44a.  I have a KSM44 and it is by far the best-sounding mic I own.
 
Don't know if it's still on, but AudioDeluxe had the AKG 414 series for something like $699, which is mucho cheap for those mics.  I don't own one, but it's hard to go wrong for that price.

there is a rebate of up to $200 on Royer's ribbon mics going on right now at Sweetwater. (??)