A few weeks ago GS member Azzzy told me he would be in town and that he wanted to meet me as well as bring his HCL Faust Mic with him so that i could check it out. Since Ive recently bought both the Mic Pre & Compressor from HCL (Both of which i really like) Ive been real curious about the mic. So we agreed to me at the studio Im currently working at here in LA.
We did a simple mic shoot out to see how the HCL Faust mic held up against some of the other industry standard tube mic's. We put the Faust up against a Neumann U47, Neumann U67, Sony C800G, and a Telefunken Elam 251.
I ran the mics each into an SSL mic pre came direct out of each pre right into protools. No EQ's no compression and recorded the vocals at 24bit 48KHz. There are only two clips the first clip is singing and the second is a rap vocal. Unfortunately there were no female singers at the time we did this test. Lets see what happens, shall we?
First up are the singing clips