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Originally posted by stealthbalance
haven't tried the baby bottle though. a friend uses the blue bottle for lead vocals claiming its like a great 47 tube with more top end clarity. does anyone know if this is true , and also if so , how does the baby bottle compare to this big bottle mic? |
Totally different ball game. The Baby Bottle starts rolling off gently around maybe 100-120 or so and up top around 5khz. It sounds like a ribbon mic with regards to the top but it has a whole lotta gain. I almost always need to put a 20dB pad on it for electric guitar. If you like really bright guitars you'll need to put another mic up with it, add a lot of top or just use something totally different. But for my work and the way I like to hear guitars it always sounds good with some time spent on placement.
I haven't had a lot of success using the Baby Bottle as a vocal mic. Someone else called it nasal and it usually sounds like that or just muffeled. But depending on what the guitars are sounding like and the singers voice it can be great. There's one band that's stopped in a few times and it's really the best mic for their singers voice and I've tried everything I own on him.