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Originally Posted by Jay Kahrs

I remember reading one "review" where they said they heard a huge difference in the sound of a guitar amp when the moved the mic three inches. Well, thank you Captin Obvious. Can we get someone with credibility? Oh, there was one guy who was sent mics for review and never did anything with them. Too many problems with self-noise, weird off-axis response and things like that. I'd like to check them out for myself but Alan never came through like he said he would.

I agree with you about these guys hyping their products but I also have had good experience with their service. They are right there because they are in most cases proud of their products. I just visited your site and checked out your equipment I like your setup. I must say though the TB1 I have gets a nice smoothe and pretty transparent sound. SP C1 is nice the B1 not as good but not bad. all around the AKG 3000B works for most vox plus in a pinch, AKG 535eb Is great for live and recording, AKG d202? is nice and smooth can be used for Bass drum or vox. I think it is a EV635(name long ago worn out is good for Hi Hat or live announcing. AT for $99 best cheap condenser I ever bought clean and transparent, EV RE20 I love it for what it is, Heil PR 30 great multi purpose Dynamic Shure is good (57,58)... Cascade Ribbon Vin-Jet is as good to me as a DX77. I even got a Cheap Q-kick and it seems to do the trick it is not as tight as a D12 but it is clean and works for bass drum. I think I will continue to experiment with all these new products from China Germany Austria Europe US Japan as long as the US Dollar can buy me something. Like Louie Armstrong said my horn has no nationality or race. I do not care where these things are made. People some times miss the point and do not see this stuff for what it is. I like to get what I can out of it. Most time s this stuff has enough personality and is made well enough to work with . My main requirement is that it has to be clean. OK Considering the fact that you have good insight, and taste in gear, I would like your opinion on the Apex 460 I just picked one up and I have my fingers crossed. I hope you do not say that it is just another CCM. One other thing about the tubes I used to repair tube amps and discovered that if you re-bias a tube with a cheap and simple resistor can change the characteristics to suit your application. I have Sylvania and RCA’s from way back that have been used 5hours a night for five years that rate 90 on a tube tester and China and Sovetek that rate 60 or 70 on a tester with a load. Some tubes have a harder or softer vacuum than others. This also can be utilized for enhanced sound purposes. Sorry to be so verbose but I have spent lots of time biasing tubes and it is the first thing I do run a signal thru it and put it on a scope, listen real good and see how it heats up and or just check the supply voltage(Vcc).
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