It is fine to disagree...but "better" is in the eye of the beholder..
"kick butt" to who??you maybe. but you arent me, so dont speak for myself nor anyone else on the board when making your statements... As I pointed out, Plush here(who has a very nice mic locker) won a grammophone award using 451s>>>DAV preamps..
I own schoeps, DPAs, gefells, coles, beyer, neumanns, akgs.. the thing is to know when to use a certain mic and when to use something different.
what you have stated is an opinion, based on your own experience..and that is fine..BUT opinion is not fact. lets not confuse the two. generalizations are wrong 99% of the time. This is one of those times.
Would hate to see some new engineer take these sorts of opinions as facts and use them as some sort of basis for how he/she should approach their own recordings..
Are you saying the schoeps ARE a be all end all solution
??Of course that is dead wrong. if that were the case, every engineer would use nothing but!Schoeps are great for certain things, but suck on others.,same as with 451s..having variety is crucial, and what is even more crucial is not to buy into false notions of what sort of preamps and mics every "classical" or "acoustic" engineer should have or what is "better" or "best"..or anything really...there is no magic bullet, there is no perfect mic, NOTHING is a given. until we all have the same ears, nothing is certain.
The only thing that is certain is that people need to know their craft ,so that they may know how to react with the right tools, and are mentally equipped to wade through the massive swamps of audio bullshit...
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Originally Posted by roonsbane  Neal wrote:
I can see using 451's as spots when you need to cut through. But there is talk going on in this thread from T Ray saying " and I fully disagree. Comparing those against the 451's is like night and day. With acoustic instruments as a main pair 99% of the time, a schoeps, or a DPA will kick butt over the 451.
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