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DougVox · Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:31 pm Post subject:

In terms of your reasoning, I'd hafta' go with #1 and #2.

(And maybe I'm just being my usual, cynical self here, but there might be a third way to look at it, too: there are audiobook publishers who expect that the people they hire to narrate their books might not have a microphone.)
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Bish · Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:39 pm Post subject:

Wow. Apart from that slight bottom end thing, they sounded pretty damned close to me. OK... everyone off to ebay with a GXL2400 search.

Without dismissing point 2), I think point 1) is a good observation.

I'll add a 3) ... (having recently discovered the CAD e100s), maybe CAD are the unsung, yet solid warriors in a sea of MXLs and clones.
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Very interesting. People at zZounds.com love it, apparently.

Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:49 pm Post subject:

Leslie Humble · Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 8:14 pm Post subject:

Interesting indeed. But I think you have proven again that the order of importance is 1. Talent 2. Room and only third the mic. Your track record proves the Talent....so
If you have your chain right and the ROOM right you can get away with many sins. Having said that, I would like to hear you on some other mics too. But thanks for a thought provoking shootout.
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heyguido · Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:21 pm Post subject:

Point 4.....

I wonder what he sounds like on a Walmart intercom? Laugh

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georgethetech · Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:29 pm Post subject:

Thanks for helping to reinforce what I've said for years, Jeff and Leslie.
Cheap mics really have gotten this good, and the artist/room combo is more crucial than the choice of mic. High pass filter engaged on the AT3035?
It's the only mic that both Dan Lenard and I own, so that's gotta count for something. One of my new clients has that same CAD, and I was pretty impressed with the sound. Sounds like a great stunt/spare/travel mic.
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Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:57 pm Post subject:

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I liked both mics. I'd actually go with that CAD for the commercial stuff - I was hearing more of an open top end, but the AT had tighter lows/low mids.

CAD makes darn fine microphones. They just aren't slick marketers.

E100s
E300s
M179
M177
M9
and I've used their old tube microphone the VX2 for character work - that is an unbelievably good microphone. http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep00/articles/cad.htm
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Tom Test · DC Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 629 Location: Chicago, IL

I have not read any of the comments yet in this thread. If I were you, I'd listen most carefully to anyone who actually produces broadcast - as opposed to "talent only" guy like myself. (Well I do a *little* production, but I don't pretend to know what the hell I'm doing...).

With that caveat, I like mic 2 "better." Mic 1 has a nice in-your-face sound that I could easily hear on radio. But mic 2 is much more natural, and as a talent, that's what I like to hear.

But then again, I can't hire myself, can I? See, I'm concerned that talent will tend to prefer the mic that our ego *thinks* puts us in the best light. For example, I'm 5'8 on a good day - not that it bothers me much, buuuut I do seem to be drawn to mics that make me sound like a big tall beefy slab of male meat. I'm not so sure that it makes the "hunka hunka burnin' love" mic the "best" type of mic for me.

Hope this helps, and I am eager to now go read the other comments.
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JTVG · Backstage Pass Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 433

I like 2. Warmer, nice clear highs.
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Scott Pollak · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:19 pm Post subject:

By now I think we should all acknowledge that mics, like good fashion accessories, fit different people differently. I've had two AT2035s that I just did NOT like at all, yet a lot of people gush all over them. Conversely the RE20 is often the whipping boy of the v/o world, and I've been told time and again how nice my voice sounds on it.

It depends on YOUR voice (and yes, your recording environment, too, of course) as to how a particular mike will sound.

The other thing that Jeff brought up that I think is so true is how good inexpensive mics are sounding nowdays. Thank goodness.
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Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 11:43 am Post subject:

A new wrinkle.

After putting the CAD through it's paces, I plugged it in for some real work, and realized it added 10 db to my noise floor. That's a bit of a dealbreaker for me.
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