| It seemed to lay in lower than the typical "upper mid push"...more ofa 1-2.5k thing.
But, no it's not extreme at all...I was mentioning as contrast to other smiley faced mics (251...414...etc)--meaning that would put it somewhere in the 47 ballpark...along with plenty of others. Yes, I know the 251 has an upper mid thing...but, it dips in the 1-3k somewhere...that's what I hear out of old Neumanns--save the 87i, which is a bit of that, but with that big upper mid thing introduced. 67s sometimes have it...sometimes not--likely has something to do with the mods done to them over the years.
it should be noted at this point that I don't think anyone has much business with $1-3k LDCs anyway (save finding a good old U87i). So, I'm a bit of a nut that way. I don't think that price range adds much to the sub $1k range of LDCs...and so many of the home studio uses for them (vocals...ac Gtr) can be handled better for less by SDCs and LDDs. I think, to an extent, people just feel like they "need" to cut vocals with an LDC...cause their heros do. Yet, you never see their heros singing into ADKs and Pelusos and ATs either--but, they figure they look the same. |