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JUST SAY NO! Save your money and buy something real.
I bought a pair of 460's. After all the hype, I sold them after only using them once. Luckily I was smart enough to track the project with another mic I know at least produces results, also a cheap chineese mic, the cascade x-15. I purchased two Apex 460's and two 471's for only $500.USD total, and no longer own any of them. A steal for four un-usable mics? The 471 was almost usable, but marketed as cardioid, which it is not. The 471 performance was perfectly omni-directional (below 10khz).
I perform vintage audio restorations, repairs, and modifications. I see no value in modding the 460. By the time you're done, You'll have so much time involved, you could have bought a decent mic an been recording for two days.
Have you looked at the Audio Technica 4041? or any 40 series A-T?
Neither Apex offers much ''tube'' sound anyway. The 471 slightly more, because there's it's a hybrid, driving the valve harder with an FET pre between the capsule and tube.
In my opinion you'd be much better off using a FET mic fed into a tube-pre, or any valve buffer stage, at this point.
Save your money. I didn't. Learn from MY mistake.thumbsup
-Ivan Kilowatt
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