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Originally Posted by minus-sounds.com  I have a couple of Birdcages. They use the body of the Octava ML52 but the ribbon and transformer are different. I have asked for the internal grill to be removed, to open up the sound, and they did it at no extra cost. I don't know what other improvements they are making. |
Actually the Birdcage II is housed in a 30% larger casing than the ML52. We lso use a long single ribbon capsule for this. The Birdcage I use the ML52 housing but another x-former and a double ribbon capsule. The ribbons are the same length as the russian capsule, but we use other magnets.
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The Birdcage is phenomenal. It has a huge sound with balls the size of melons. Also a Lundahl would be awesome. Still it has an open sound. I don't have access to a R84 but sonically I guess it wouldn't be far.
I just show on their site that they are going to offer the "Birdcage Active".
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You are right. The R84 do sound very similar. We have customers that pointed that out too. We were not modeling them after the AEA's though, it's just concidence.
The active version has a miniature tube stage installed. It sounds similar to the other birdcages but it needs less gain. Of course you get some noise from the tube, but it's really not a problem. It's noise is comparable to tht of a good tube mic.