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Don't get me wrong I like the CV12 overall but the mic has something about it that I just can't get around.
I would love to hear a nice CK12 capsule or similar in there. Then again, it may have something as simple as the tube used. The CV12 ships with multiple tubes.
Maybe a tube with less gain might have been in order?
Asagaai, would you use your James over the CV12 (song dependent) and then try boosting highs with an EQ? Maybe the Arabella??
Both to me stick out as mics I would put on a female vocalist that was a little back from the mic and could belt out a little as well. Maybe the rounder tone would kind of give the female belter a little mush that we might not like?? But you could always insert a hipass on the sidechain of whatever compressor you might be tracking with and bring some of the highs back out, plus a little parallel comp and some fader riding?
I still think you can't go wrong with a U67, maybe with some tickling in the air bands. I'm just a sucker for old school stuff though. I'm thinking she would have sounded good into a u67 (or similar sounding/voiced mic) with a clean preamp into a colored comp doing very little gain reduction. Get the perfect axis position so that the esses weren't crazy and just run with it.
I wonder what the choices were mic wise?
Ive always tried to match the vocalist to the mic but also to the song. One would think they would have said ok the CV12 works for this song and the XY mic works for her on this song, versus CV12 on EVERY song.
Even Norah Jones was using a different mic on different songs on her hit record if I recall.
I wonder why they didn't approach it this way??
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