[quote author="alk509"]Personally, I would never even consider buying a mic from somebody who's shown the total lack of business ethics and respect for this group that JZ has. I also think that BLUE were trying to f*ck with him and don't deserve my business either. That's all well and good...
But for those people who could potentially buy some mics from either one of these companies, shouldn't it be about the sound? Has anyone actually heard these mics??? Either the Chinese or the Latvian ones?[/quote]
I heard the Latvian version of the Dragonfly, which was the mic pictured. Very clean, very very bright, like many BLUE microphones, slight metallic ring from the screen resonance, not my cup of tea but a lot of people like that sound. The one thing, though, was that this was the only microphone I've heard on a guitar amp that, when the recording was played back, sounded like the guitar amp. Not like a recording, but like the Deluxe Reverb itself was in the room. Utterly spooky. No idea if the Chinese version can do that.
Oh, and as far as payola...after I'd written a review of a BLUE mic (I think it was the Dragonfly but it might have been the Mouse) they offered me a job writing manuals for them. I turned it down. Such arrangements are pretty common in the audio-journalism world, but I find them uncomfortable, to put it mildly.
Peace,
Paul
