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Originally Posted by andychamp  I wonder if the facts that
- you more or less just got off a plane (jetlag, air cond., pressure changes)
- hadn't worked with the mic before
- the monitoring wasn't that good
may also have something to do with the disappointing results you got?
I'm not knocking your oppinion and I believe you when you say the recording sucked.
You don't like that mic? Fine, don't use it.
But I think your not liking it may have reasons beyond the mic itself, at least in that particular case...
I think what gave this mic a bad rep was that it was marketed as an affordable / entry level Neumann.
So it ended up in the hands of a lot of people who didn't know how to sing or record properly, whose other equipment was(and sounded) cheap and terrible, and who were counting on that mic alone to make them sound great.  |
listen man - i've tracked a TON of vocalists with a TON of mics in my time -
and i know the difference between a mic that makes me happy, and a mic that doesn't.
the 103 did not. AND i have the recordings to prove it.
anyone with a brain and any recording experience at all would be able to
hear the problems with this mic for those wonderful strong luscious voices.
sorry, dude, but the mic just did not cut it.
tracking kickass vocalists is not frikkin' rocket science -
ESPECIALLY when you have years of experience.
this is not a "marketing" problem. the mic simply did not do the job.
and as far as your reference to amateur usage problems and expectations,
the singers had been professionally performing at that point for years,
and i'd been tracking vocals daily for almost 20 years, at that point.
why are you pushing this, dude? it didn't work for me - period.
if you like it so much, and you wanna use it, and keep fighting for a so-so mic, go for it -
go to town with your mediocre (at best) mic.
imo, there are hundred mics i would rather have recorded [strong acapella female vocals
in a mid sized room] with - in that price range - or LOWER
entry level, shmentry level - either a mic works, or it doesn't...
what - do you work for neumann communications, or something?
why do YOU care wtf i like? or think, for that matter?
you can keep defending this mic, but it's a waste of your time,
unless you want to post some strong solo and stacked acapella female vox recordings
you've done with it?
i mean, i'm totally closed, but...
.