Would be interesting to see what's going on in this mic...

[k brown]

http://www.braingasmlab.com/shop/ferro

Center-terminated LDC with selectable card/omni pattern, where "The omnidirectional response is obtained mechanically..."

I know this is how the C37A and it's current imitators works, but the video on the website shows no hole in the back to access an adjustment vane (the pattern switch is on the front of the mic). And I'm pretty sure that outfit is not making their own capsules, so how could they be 'obtaining the omni response mechanically' from a cardioid LDC?

(Same outfit selling a Primo EM273 (or 272?)-based mic with the capsule mounted in a 40mm APE (via a vinyl grommet, it appears) for a cool 700 Euros. Looney when you can get a Line Audio Omni1 for a fraction of the price, with the capsule custom modified/optimized, and make your own APE [40mm not even the best size for that capsule; 50mm would be much better]). http://www.braingasmlab.com/shop/ocula

 

[Icantthinkofaname]

http://www.braingasmlab.com/shop/ferro

Center-terminated LDC with selectable card/omni pattern, where "The omnidirectional response is obtained mechanically..."

I know this is how the C37A and it's current imitators works, but the video on the website shows no hole in the back to access an adjustment vane. And I'm pretty sure that outfit is not making their own capsules.

(Same outfit selling a Primo EM273 (or 272?)-based mic with the capsule mounted in a 40mm APE (via a vinyl grommet, it appears) for a cool 700 Euros. Looney when you can get a Line Audio Omni1 for a fraction of the price, with the capsule custom modified/optimized, and make your own APE [40mm not even the best size for that capsule; 50mm would be much better]). http://www.braingasmlab.com/shop/ocula

This is why I don't buy boutique field recording mics. They always just use the Primo capsules but I'm not sure how much they're modified if at all. Not that I necessarily require modification, but the prices on a lot of these Primo capsule mics (or equivalent) are what I'd expect to pay to companies that actually design their own capsules and bodies.

I feel like that's also a saturated market right now. Tons of boutique companies are making omni field mics. For the prices Braingasm charges, why not try to make a mic with interchangeable modified capsules?

Or try to make a good sounding supercardioid, or a parabolic mic? Or a nice tiny cardioid like the Line Audio CM4, but find a way to have a higher output, maybe something like a built in preamp like a Fethead Phantom.

Or make a studio mic like a CAD E200 where it's 2 cardioid SDC capsules. I don't know how useful that would be, but the EM200 is a very flat capsule.

Oh, I already know the answer. That would actually require them to do enough R&D to justify the prices they charge. Then they're not printing money anymore by selling people mics built with stock sub-$25 capsules.

 

[MicMaven]

OK I present ... CRAZY BUSINESS PLAN No. 34876

NEW! Super-Sonic "8-Ball" Condenser Microphone!

I will source umpty dozen cheap billiard balls and drill a hole through each. One of you guys will order umpty dozen cheap capsules from JLI (because it supports the DIY community.) We cajole Mr. Thor and two other guys with a couple cases of beer to argue, debate, and even fistfight as they devise a simple, straightforward, cost-effective circuit design; before Management completely disregards their new pioneering paradigm of simplicity, opting for a $5 off-the-shelf solution purchased on eBay.com instead. (See Photo) (Better order another case of beer for those guys ... although surely they are well used to Management overriding genius design ... )

Later, we meet in my basement (with another case of beer and several pans of my wife's fabulous lasagna and world famous lamb stew) and assemble them all in one weekend, producing the next latest greatest microphone since the invention of paper napkins. We package them in the cheapest plain brown boxes we can source, and claim we are saving the planet using recycled paper products and minimal ink and no Styrofoam padding, etc.

We price them at $499 each, or $1200 for a matched pair (selected solely on aesthetics.) The marketing cut sheet shall boastfully proclaim this is the best "under $500 studio microphone" ever produced. We then clone a simple web site on GoDaddy.com populated with numerous subjective over-the-top bodacious techno-babble doubletalk nobody can disprove (because it is technological nonsense to begin with) and festooned with popular buzz words like "clarity," "linearity," "presence," and "4-D soundstage," (because 3D is so plebian and old fashioned these days,) and finish by sprinkling additional marketing phrases that make it sound modern, hip and exotic.

AT which point ... WE ARE IN BUSINESS!


Bonus Serving Suggestion: We engrave a screwy random pattern on the face of the capsule with the engraving point we used to scratch our driver license numbers on our stereo gear in the 1970s, alleging we made "unique custom proprietary modifications" to the capsule which impart magical, ethereal properties to the recorded audio, which, of course, ups the price another $100.

Optional Support: For a mere $75 MORE, we add an eyebolt to suspend it from above, isolating vibration allowed by typical floor-standing supports; eliminating expensive shock mounts which usually cost much less. The marketing literature portrays us as savvy and erudite alluding to Walt Gropius and the famous Bauhaus design school "less is more" and so forth. Customers are impressed by smart sounding literature.

So, what do you guys think? Anybody want in on the ground floor?

James

PS - We will avoid losing our shirts on this boondoggle by financing the whole deal with a Go-Fund-Me campaign, collecting all revenue in advance, selling them all before we buy a single 8-ball or case of beer. / JHR

 

[Barry Hufker]

This is how fortunes are made!

 

[k brown]

But you might end up behind the 8-ball . . .