new mxl microphones question

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Gus

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Anyone hear or own a new mxl v6 or v12. I am wondering what they did different if they did anything different(neumann, AKG z balanced or a schoeps circuit) in the electronics.

I read the Mix review I found on the web, sounded like market speak.
http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_mxl_condenser_microphone/

I am trying to understand what tube sound means in market speak. A tube microphone can have harmonic distortion or be as clean as one wants.

If someone has one pictures of the inside would be fun to reverse the circuit from
 
Market speech dictionary defines tube sound as 1.having/ possing a tube in the circuit path, 2. of or containing the warm sound that tubes tend to posses, Marketing gimic to make people purchase said microphone.
 
The Mix review states "manufactured in the US".
Does this include the capsule.I had always assumed that Marshal/MXL used chinese devices.As the "Microphone"constitutes an electromechanical transducer,ie capsule,withe peripherals ,impedance converter,body grill etc claged on.I would have thought this description misleading."assembled in the US"more appropriate.
If they do make their own capsules I appologise in advance.
Am I being pedantic. :?:
Andy
 
Andy

I don't think you are wrong in being pedanic(I had to look that up). I think a lot of marketing stuff should be analysed I find some to be hard to understand.

I am not sure what the law(s) in the USA are for manufactured vs assembled in the USA on the package.

FWIW I own two MXLV69Ms. the microphones have a tube but it is a different type of circuit than one often sees. The tube(12AT7) has both triodes in parallel one side of the capsule goes to the grid, the plate goes to 200V B+ IIRC with a plate R and the tube is cathode bias with a resistor and bypass cap. Now the cool part there is a 55pf cap from the plate to grid and the capsule is about 55pf so we have a charge amp anode follower with a gain of about -1.

Then the circuit changes to what KIND OF LOOKS LIKE a modded Schoeps circuit even with a FET? I am not impressed with the microphones enought to even trace it all the way plus some of the circuit is under a blob of epoxy or something like it.
 
I actually liked the V69M's sound quite a bit. I think it's one of the nicer sounding budget mics. Although it's more or less a one-trick-pony primarily geared to vocals. Also, it's not as quiet as it's supposed to be (14 dB-A self noise), but the self noise and S/N specs are contradictory, anyway.

I asked Wayne Freeman about the epoxy covered circuit. He told me it's a fet circuit. I figured it might be a fet impedance converter, but I don't know. You may be right that it's the Schoeps circuit yet again.
 


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