smallbutfine
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OK,
heard these smallish C2 babies yesterday. We just did a short first testing session and my first impression was that they are pretty neutral sounding.
We did some voice recording only for about 15 min. and didn't notice a great lack of low end (our impression was that they have more low end as we expected, the high end was ok sounding, not penetrant). They ARE more like hyper cardiod.
Very solid hardware package, sennheiser type clips, a cool small all-in-one box.
A great value for this money...getting 2 (well matched) condensors for half the price of an SM58 (at least here in germany) with all that great accessories in a nice box... a no-brainer.
Time to order some more... :grin:
Kind regards
Martin
PS: Sorry, PRR, here some answers...
EDIT: From our first impression and without any measuring we can confirm the the published curve.
heard these smallish C2 babies yesterday. We just did a short first testing session and my first impression was that they are pretty neutral sounding.
We did some voice recording only for about 15 min. and didn't notice a great lack of low end (our impression was that they have more low end as we expected, the high end was ok sounding, not penetrant). They ARE more like hyper cardiod.
Very solid hardware package, sennheiser type clips, a cool small all-in-one box.
A great value for this money...getting 2 (well matched) condensors for half the price of an SM58 (at least here in germany) with all that great accessories in a nice box... a no-brainer.
Time to order some more... :grin:
Kind regards
Martin
PS: Sorry, PRR, here some answers...
Very solid built. Feel like they will survive more than 50 for sure... extremely usable. however the stereo rail is more kinda junk or gimmick (plastic). Everything else will be cool live equipment.Do they feel like they will survive more than one gig? A dozen?
We did not notice any of this.Do they hiss, sizzle, rattle, clank?
We strongly discussed this topic yesterday. A little shelving and mild eqing would do it. My friend Armin (the proud owner) wouldn't mind using them for universal live uses (he works as a live mixing engineer) without any fears of heavy eq problems...Do they do anything awful to the sound? Is that ~9KHz ring really a few dB or is the published curve "smoothed"? I don't consider the far-field bass slope, -10dB at 50Hz, a fault in a low-price mike that may be used close; is the published curve roughly right and can it be semi-corrected with mild EQ?
EDIT: From our first impression and without any measuring we can confirm the the published curve.
Yes, they are very quiet.Is the self-hiss level low in a quiet room?
We first had a (-56dB) buzz problem on one of them in a very heavy environment (5m cable laying around the electribe tubes and a tube mic psu...) that turned out to be fully cable related (we replaced it and there was no audible hum).Is the buzz level low when you drape the cable over a Fender amp? (I doubt the mikes are really balanced output, but if not too unbalanced and fairly low-Z, then buzz may be manageable.)
That's what we tried at first. The result was that at least our pair was very, very well matched. We could not tell one from another and got a nearly perfect stereo image (make a radio play with them...).[/quote]If you put the two mikes close together and plug one to each ear, does the image sit near the center or are they poorly matched? If the match can be fixed with a few dB of gain or balance control, that's fine; if you can't get a narrow mono image with just gain adjustment then some types of stereo recording get goofy.