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Originally Posted by Gabriel Sousa  strange, no one mentioned the neumann m147... |
Okay, I will. I didn't
hate it, but I didn't like it enough to keep it, even after it received a new tube and met factory specs after I sent it in for maintenance last summer. This will not put me in good stead with nearly everyone in this thread (and what a way to make my debut here!), but I actually prefer the sound to my older TLM-103 to the M-147, so I still have it, though I rarely use it. It has a nice, grainy texture that works for me on occasion.
Other disliked gear I've owned and either discarded or put into storage (though I don't really consider high end):
Focusrite Voicemaster Pro Platinum - No issues with the sound quality on VO work considering the meager investment. Nice array of pretty red lit buttons, nearly all of which go bad after a couple of years. Garbage.
Aphex 230. Couldn't get it out of my studio fast enough. I couldn't find a setting that didn't sound horrible after two days of fiddling with it.
EV-RE20 - Had to work much too hard to get the vocal sound I was looking for out of it. Nice workhorse -- for broadcasting -- but not nuanced enough for the daily rigors of the kind of varied VO work I do.