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Originally Posted by Audio Hombre  414's never seem to get much lub around here but to my ears in this test above, the 414 absolutely smoked the faust...... so i'll give hcl the benefit of the doubt here but man oh man oh man  |
We position Faust as "mic with presence and which has not necessity in de-essor". Other side - good sitting and recognition in the mix. Many good mics has nice sounding... itself ... till attempts to embed voice(different types of voices - male/female) into mix, and mics sounding continue to be good. But inaudible.... through mix
I do not think that is something wrong with comparison, just it`s another mic type. Alike Stratocaster, Telecaster with glass sounding which is brand, ad Gibson, for instance, with opposite type sounding. But try say to Telecaster owners that his guitar has a wrong sounding..... because his Tele has another sound type and was smoked by Gibson....
414 seems with some porridge in top, ach-ach.... SM7b is good with count of price, alike my home AKG C3000 which has surprisingly good sounding in some cases, I had a plans to update 3000 by tube, but has changed my mind, because 3000 has own sounding, and good, what for?
In turn, when we mount Faust and M149 near each other, it seems that M149 is broken, though 149 is very nice mic, of course.
To extend viewing and comparison it has a sense for listening another mics shooting where Faust, U47, Elam 251, Sony g800 are compared -
Hand Crafted Labs_ Faust Mic_ Shootout Quote:
Originally Posted by frans .. (Sorry, EveAnna...)..... I mostly do rock and raw stuff and sometimes I let the peaks hit clip because it sounds so fine in context! Less compression needed = less work for me. To get it straight, it's not a "dark" pre, it sounds like there is a midget in it who rides the gain a little and mults/processed the signal just like I need it. Maybe that's what the ventilation openings are for, so that this dwarf gets some air?
Thank you Albert, good job! Should I pour a little vodka into the pre to keep the dwarf happy? |
Frans! , ha-ha.... yes, how you know we grow and put special gremlins inside each our device, with incantations, I can remind how it occur, the singing dwarfs downloadable into device -
http://papa-movie.com/HCL_download_gremlins.wmv
So... be careful with dwarfs and vodka, they can become alcoholics if you will accustom to drinking them. A little of drink.
Preamp distortion has pushed us at building new
distortion device with triode/pentode or both type distortion as mentioned on earlier page, so... device will be presented soon, single channel strip and dual also(without preamp).
