Soliloqueen's k87(k67) and k47 capsules

[bobboxbody]

I just finished a U87i clone with and AMI T13 and the new Arienne K87 and it sounds great, thank you!

 

[soliloqueen]

I just finished a U87i clone with and AMI T13 and the new Arienne K87 and it sounds great, thank you!

Got pictures?

 

[micolas]

I just finished a U87i clone with and AMI T13 and the new Arienne K87 and it sounds great, thank you!

Can you put some sound samples with the clone?

 

[bobboxbody]

Got pictures?

I have a new interface coming today, I will make some recordings this weekend and post here.

 

[papadajoke]

Hey, bobboxbody. Thanks for sharing. Lots of b's in your member name! Hope I didn't trip and misspell. Great work with your project. Keep moving forward and let us know how your mic works for you!

 

[EarthTone]

I have a new interface coming today, I will make some recordings this weekend and post here.

Nice build! Which body did you use? And which circuit board set, D-87?

 

[bobboxbody]

Nice build! Which body did you use? And which circuit board set, D-87?

Thank you, I used the Mic & Mod 87 kit without the transformer or capsule. I bought everything before finding this site and all the information here or I might have made different choices, but it turned out nicely.

 

[soapfoot]

It's already been said over and over... but even just visually that capsule looks impressive. Great work!

 

[soliloqueen]

Thanks! In the future we might take a knife or something and try to get rid of that overspill from the mold a bit better. We didn't really have time to process the first batch of rings and in real life the little seam is basically completely invisible, but if it doesn't take that much extra time we'll start doing it later when we switch the ring color. I picked out that grey before I knew Neumann switched their modern capsules to basically the same color... I had only seen capsules up to the 2000s. But we already bought the pellets. Eventually when we run out of the bulk plastic we bought the rings are going to be light blue. Nothing ostentatious or visible through the microphone just something nice.

 

[TadS]

I have a new interface coming today, I will make some recordings this weekend and post here.

Beautiful and wonderful work! I'm also looking forward to the arrival of the capsule!

 

[TadS]

The gray rings have a vintage vibe and look really cool! Awesome! The light blue rings are also very intriguing. The subtle, fashionable appearance visible through the mesh is surely a stylish touch!

 

[soliloqueen]

The gray rings have a vintage vibe and look really cool! Awesome! The light blue rings are also very intriguing. The subtle, fashionable appearance visible through the mesh is surely a stylish touch!

You can't really see it through most meshes

 

[bobboxbody]

I recorded some samples, I just have my voice and an electric guitar, so those are the recordings. Equipment used was the U87, Prism Sound Lyra 2 via USB to Reaper. Amplified to 0db peaks and converted to flac in Audacity. The guitar recordings were mid-side with the U87 in figure 8 and a Beyer M160 cardioid, as well as the U87 in cardioid, both about 18" from the 2x10" speaker cabinet driven by a Matamp 1224. I did clean and dirty guitar for each configuration and one spoken vocal track with the U87 switched to omni about 8" away.

vocal:


dirty guitar mid-side:


clean guitar mid-side:


dirty guitar cardioid:


clean guitar cardioid:

 

[soliloqueen]

I recorded some samples, I just have my voice and an electric guitar, so those are the recordings. Equipment used was the U87, Prism Sound Lyra 2 via USB to Reaper. Amplified to 0db peaks and converted to flac in Audacity. The guitar recordings were mid-side with the U87 in figure 8 and a Beyer M160 cardioid, as well as the U87 in cardioid, both about 18" from the 2x10" speaker cabinet driven by a Matamp 1224. I did clean and dirty guitar for each configuration and one spoken vocal track with the U87 switched to omni about 8" away.

i'm a little confused. mid/side is a stereo technique, but these uploads are mono. are they only the side track? if so, why?

 

[mjmajilton]

You can't really see it through most meshes

With the blue ring, you can instantly know where that capsule on the shelf came from.

 

[micolas]

I recorded some samples, I just have my voice and an electric guitar, so those are the recordings. Equipment used was the U87, Prism Sound Lyra 2 via USB to Reaper. Amplified to 0db peaks and converted to flac in Audacity. The guitar recordings were mid-side with the U87 in figure 8 and a Beyer M160 cardioid, as well as the U87 in cardioid, both about 18" from the 2x10" speaker cabinet driven by a Matamp 1224. I did clean and dirty guitar for each configuration and one spoken vocal track with the U87 switched to omni about 8" away.

vocal:


dirty guitar mid-side:


clean guitar mid-side:


dirty guitar cardioid:


clean guitar cardioid:

Hi Bobboxbody!
Could You record the voice in Cardioid?
if possible at 6", 8", 10", 1...2 feet and 2...3" (to hear the proximity effect).
In my opinion, the voice is the most demanding in audio recording.
Thank you very much!

 

[soliloqueen]

I don't even like a real k87 in Omni on axis that close for vocal. It's got that 8 khz dagger. So much more reasonable even slightly off axis.

 

[bobboxbody]

i'm a little confused. mid/side is a stereo technique, but these uploads are mono. are they only the side track? if so, why?

I messed up and exported mono, I also deleted the projects after uploading to soundcloud to save space on my drive. Complete sound sample failure. We just got about 3 feet of snow and it's still coming down, my snowblower is not up to the task, so it's likely that most of today will be shoveling and crying for me. I'll do some more vocal samples based on the requests later in the week.

 

[soliloqueen]

I messed up and exported mono, I also deleted the projects after uploading to soundcloud to save space on my drive. Complete sound sample failure. We just got about 3 feet of snow and it's still coming down, my snowblower is not up to the task, so it's likely that most of today will be shoveling and crying for me. I'll do some more vocal samples based on the requests later in the week.

I feel that, I'm in the Midwest

 

[JohnnyM]

Hey @soliloqueen do you do shipping notifications? We’ve got a ropey postal service where I live