| I use SM81s live and with a good enough ACSTC they will work OK in recording situations.
I'd go with a large consdenser if it was a solo ACSTC track or the ACTSC was doing anything other than strumming, rythm track stuff. The differences in 414s don't bother me that much. I'd prefer an older nickle body mic, but they all work.
My number one ACSTC mic is my KM84 and has been for almost sixteen years.
I also use it for solo fiddle, solo violin, mandolin, dobro, etc...
Interestingly enough enough my KM84 started life as a KM85i!
A KM85i is a Flash Gordon looking hand held Nuemann.
There was a KM85i at a studio I worked at and everyone said it was broken.
I aquired it and opened it up to discover that inside was shock-mounted KM84!!!!
The KM84 was in perfect condition because it had been inside the body of the KM85i.
The XLR connector fits the KM85i body, so the KM84 portion has the larger back piece of the KM85 wire-tied to the body.
The wires come out of the KM84 body and go up to the XLR.
It doesn't look too funky and it sounds gorgeous.
I was recording a studio player friend and he said, "It looks like that mic that Tina Turner uses in Mad Max Return to the ThunderDome!"
In the fine tradition of my other gear, it is a piece that someone else discarded and I repaired.
It is good that so few people know how to repair stuff!
"Yeah, that's no good anymore... give it to me, I'll throw it away for you."
Right!
Danny Brown |