BrickByBrick
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Hey all! First off I want to thank everyone who contributes to this forum. It's such a wealth of knowledge, and having access to a resource like this is most helpful. So I figured it was my time to give some insight into a project I was working on last year.
Picked up a pair of Mellow Audio 87 DIY kits. Found out about them through a Facebook group I'm in. Anyways, they sound killer. Been using them for drum overheads, VO, and rowdy punk vocals this past month. I was able to borrow a friends 70s 87 a year ago and this kit is giving me the same vibes. To me an 87 is like a blank page, you can make it whatever you want, add some top where you need, get some low end going and you're set. On VO I was adding a bit of 60hz, and on OH I was adding a shelf at 10k. Overall its a strong sounding mic.
Kit comes with two PCBS and all the components. I decided to order a pair of Beesneez K8 capsules and AMI transformers.
Got some clips for y'all too. Drum OH is just the mellow 87s and kit is with all the drum mics. Hair of compression on the snare going in and some EQ on the kick. Kit clip I added a HPF and a little 10k shelf to the OH. Super hyped by these mics and how the drums turned out. Never had a kit sound this huge. My only other pair of mics are the Soyuz 013FETs which I've used extensively on drum OH and now I can see why people dig LDC on OH.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/815r6uh6njlke6i/AABFemuCGq7Jji5fGVUjD2U2a?dl=0
Picked up a pair of Mellow Audio 87 DIY kits. Found out about them through a Facebook group I'm in. Anyways, they sound killer. Been using them for drum overheads, VO, and rowdy punk vocals this past month. I was able to borrow a friends 70s 87 a year ago and this kit is giving me the same vibes. To me an 87 is like a blank page, you can make it whatever you want, add some top where you need, get some low end going and you're set. On VO I was adding a bit of 60hz, and on OH I was adding a shelf at 10k. Overall its a strong sounding mic.
Kit comes with two PCBS and all the components. I decided to order a pair of Beesneez K8 capsules and AMI transformers.
Got some clips for y'all too. Drum OH is just the mellow 87s and kit is with all the drum mics. Hair of compression on the snare going in and some EQ on the kick. Kit clip I added a HPF and a little 10k shelf to the OH. Super hyped by these mics and how the drums turned out. Never had a kit sound this huge. My only other pair of mics are the Soyuz 013FETs which I've used extensively on drum OH and now I can see why people dig LDC on OH.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/815r6uh6njlke6i/AABFemuCGq7Jji5fGVUjD2U2a?dl=0
