Low Cost Ribbon Mics

jakojak514 · 29th November 2005

Has anyone tried the Stellar Ribbon mics
these seem to be chinese mics in a body ressembling the old Bang an Olufsen and hence the Royers...
I have a beyer M260 that i love as well as a Lustraphone that's really nice even though it has no high end but when i plug it into a good pre and then into my Binson echorec and sing ... I feel like roy orbison in one of his first recordings !

anyway these stellar are inexpensive
nut maybe i should just buy an oktava ML 52 or 53 ?

robee · 29th November 2005

I never used those mices, but I have two Coles 4038, that are beautifull.
http://www.coleselectroacoustics.com/micstudio.shtml
It's not an expensive mice but it's not very versatile cause its fig.8 polar pattern and the 15k roll off.
For the voice could be too dark, but if you have to capture the bottom of a crunch or a guitar classical low note or a dark ambience....man...wow, buy it

Rob

Sound Development

hopeless_opus · 29th November 2005

I was wondering about the Stellar mics too. They appear to be the same as the Nady and Shinybox mics, except the specs are a little different.... I emailed the guy and he said they came from the same factory as the Nady's and Shinybox's, but didn't know what the differences might be.

covert · 29th November 2005

Only seem to be finding these on Ebay, from "Loopsterman25" Any other sources?

29th November 2005	#1
jakojak514 Gear interested Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 24 Thread Starter	Low Cost Ribbon Mics Has anyone tried the Stellar Ribbon mics these seem to be chinese mics in a body ressembling the old Bang an Olufsen and hence the Royers... I have a beyer M260 that i love as well as a Lustraphone that's really nice even though it has no high end but when i plug it into a good pre and then into my Binson echorec and sing ... I feel like roy orbison in one of his first recordings ! anyway these stellar are inexpensive nut maybe i should just buy an oktava ML 52 or 53 ?

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29th November 2005	#2
robee Gear interested Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 6	I never used those mices, but I have two Coles 4038, that are beautifull. http://www.coleselectroacoustics.com/micstudio.shtml It's not an expensive mice but it's not very versatile cause its fig.8 polar pattern and the 15k roll off. For the voice could be too dark, but if you have to capture the bottom of a crunch or a guitar classical low note or a dark ambience....man...wow, buy it Rob Sound Development

29th November 2005	#3
hopeless_opus Gear addict Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 428	I was wondering about the Stellar mics too. They appear to be the same as the Nady and Shinybox mics, except the specs are a little different.... I emailed the guy and he said they came from the same factory as the Nady's and Shinybox's, but didn't know what the differences might be.

29th November 2005	#4
covert Lives for gear Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: capitol district NY Posts: 522	Only seem to be finding these on Ebay, from "Loopsterman25" Any other sources?