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De chromium cob · 20th May 2005

So I received my 460 today and gave it a quick run through-
Not bad- not great....Kinda what i figured it would be. Fairly cheap build quality as is to be expected from a really cheap mic. Cheap pins that will bend if your not careful pluging the mic in....

The front of the capsule sound the best, while the back in omni & figure 8 isnt anything to write home about. In general it has a bump in the 2 to 4 Khz range as the freq. chart HERE suggests....

I tried it through a Electrodyne 712 pre/eq and with a modest bit of eq got it to sound pretty good, so I think I'll probably wind up keeping it and modding it as some posts above have suggested. For a couple hundred it will be something I can screw with without fear of losing a bunch of money in the process, but until its modded probably wont see a whole lot of use because I have many high end mics, but for someone with a more modest mic collection I could see it being a good addition right out of the box.... Seeing the quality of the mic in general though and knowing what it shares with the M-16, I couldnt see spending 7 times the money for it.... As always, YMMV.

20th May 2005	#13
De chromium cob Lives for gear Joined: Feb 2003 Location: Western North Carolina Posts: 3,659	So I received my 460 today and gave it a quick run through- Not bad- not great....Kinda what i figured it would be. Fairly cheap build quality as is to be expected from a really cheap mic. Cheap pins that will bend if your not careful pluging the mic in.... The front of the capsule sound the best, while the back in omni & figure 8 isnt anything to write home about. In general it has a bump in the 2 to 4 Khz range as the freq. chart HERE suggests.... I tried it through a Electrodyne 712 pre/eq and with a modest bit of eq got it to sound pretty good, so I think I'll probably wind up keeping it and modding it as some posts above have suggested. For a couple hundred it will be something I can screw with without fear of losing a bunch of money in the process, but until its modded probably wont see a whole lot of use because I have many high end mics, but for someone with a more modest mic collection I could see it being a good addition right out of the box.... Seeing the quality of the mic in general though and knowing what it shares with the M-16, I couldnt see spending 7 times the money for it.... As always, YMMV. __________________ "I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives." Tolstoy