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Old 3rd February 2009   #446
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the AKG D112, I actually hate the way this mic sounds, I was all for it a year ago but not so much now - makes your kick sound like a puff of air no matter where you put it. It's so big and clumsy you'd be lucky to get it inside the average kickdrum.
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AKG C 1000, maybe good for close-micing a ride cymbal but definitely not for over-heads, for some reason I didn't dig them.
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Anything Behringer or Presonus... even though I still use Behringer and Presonus in my rig, I can't hack it... they make me want to punch a baby.
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Alesis Monitor 1s, my old boss who owns Studio 11 in Winnipeg swears by these things, I thought they sounded just as poor as the average stereo speaker...
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Neumann TLM103 - REALLY sensitive, but aside from that I couldn't hear that much of a difference between that mic and an AKG 414. In fact, the 103 conked out half way through tracking vocals once and we finished with the 414. We couldn't hear a difference at all, really... I think the most I noticed was that the 414 didn't sound as close or as involved as the 103.
u couldn't hear the difference between these? what model 414? sound nothing at all alike to my ears
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