1st November 2012
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#31 | | Gear interested
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I'm looking forward to this one...Yep  | 
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2nd November 2012
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#32 | | Gear addict
Joined: Dec 2008 Location: Pacific Northwest Washington State, USA
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Good news indeed. I hope someone here can review one and give us some more info.
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2nd November 2012
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#33 | | Gear maniac
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Very interesting, and I wonder how the capsules compare to the rectangular Milab capsules, which I looove...  | |
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2nd November 2012
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#34 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by cowboycoalminer  According to that curve, it's got a dip in the sil range. That bump on the rumble end doesn't look good for males. Looks like it might be a great female mic. Id like to try one though. | Just a little bit of high pass should do the trick. U47's a great mic, but I wouldn't dream of not touching the low end in a modern pop/rock mix.
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3rd November 2012
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#35 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by mikeg09 OOOWWEEEE!!! That looks beautiful! That 4 piece capsule looks very promising | What do you think is the benefit of 4 rectangular capsules summing to one?
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3rd November 2012
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#36 | | Gear maniac
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Hey guys...I'm a product manager for Audio Technica. Our method of summing the four diaphragms, quadruples the sensitivity, while only doubling the self noise; which is still less than 5 dB. BTW...we had a production house in Atlanta do the video. Not sure what microphone they used, but it wasn't the AT5040.
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5th November 2012
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#37 | | Gear addict
Joined: Mar 2009 Location: Jacksonville, FL/Rotterdam, Netherlands
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I've a few AT mics and I really love them.
I can't wait to check this one out in person!!
No high pass filter though?
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5th November 2012
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#38 | | Gear Guru
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Interesting design, but none of this means much to me until I sing into the microphone to hear how it sounds.
Self noise wouldn't be my biggest concern for a vocal microphone, some of the best sounding vocal microphones I've used are actually quite noisy.
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6th November 2012
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#39 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by Adebar What do you think is the benefit of 4 rectangular capsules summing to one? | The coverage area of the capsule is 2x the area of a 1' capsule. Like the size of a very large capsule but the transient & hi end response of a smaller one.
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6th November 2012
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#40 | | Gear addict
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Originally Posted by Yetti I was thinking the same thing too...a few of her siblants were a bit piercing.
And the soundtrack music is like nails on a chalkboard....smooth as a sharp knife.
Hard to imagine how this got past the marketing department... | The same here... 
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6th November 2012
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#41 | | Lives for gear
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Would love to hear some clips of this unit ! I have quite a few AT mics that I really enjoy using . The slight low end boost on the mic looks like it would be great for a room mic as well .
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9th November 2012
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#42 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by Trev@Circle I was lucky enough to attend the product launch for this. As ever it was impossible to actually get an idea of the mic first hand though we were told by the designer that it's designed to be extremely clean/transparent but I LO-O-O-ved the shock mount design! | I wonder how it compares to the Brauner mic's then.
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10th November 2012
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#43 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by Glenn Bucci I wonder how it compares to the Brauner mic's then. | Yeah Brauner is the only other company doing all original designs for high end studio mics.
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15th November 2012
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#44 | | Gear Head
Joined: Dec 2005 Location: Sweden
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Looks really nice! 
The four combined rectangular diaphragm design is very interesting.
Kind of a combination of the swedish Pearl's (PML) and Milab's rectangular diaphragms, which I believe have been around since the 60's - and on the other hand the combined 3-capsule design from swedish Line Audio Design, which also has been around for many years. 
It's a bit strange though, that the rectangular design hasn't been adopted by more manufacturers until now...
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18th November 2012
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#45 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by miscend Yeah Brauner is the only other company doing all original designs for high end studio mics. | Not really. There are others.
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19th November 2012
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#46 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by PDC Not really. There are others. | Which are some others I should check out?
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19th November 2012
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#47 | | Gear nut
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Originally Posted by miscend Which are some others I should check out? |
I really like Brauners, but they aren't the craziest concepts out there, really.
Pearl
Soundfield
JZ
If you look around, there are a few.
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19th November 2012
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#48 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by miscend Which are some others I should check out? | Bock Audio Designs 507, CharterOak, Lauten Audio, Milab Microphones, Sanken, DPA, Earthworks, Josephson and many others offer mics with different approaches, different than the norm "me-too" mics.
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19th November 2012
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#49 | | Lives for gear
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$3k...one pattern? No thanks. I know...cardioid is the most used vocal pattern...but, still...you're gonna make some kind of innovative new design mic JUST for vocals? It BETTER have a negative feedback circuit. Does it? Bet not.
Funny, I sold the 4060 because it was only cardioid. I'd love to have a pair of those that were multipattern. I'd have even thought a multipattern 4033 would be useful.
Cardioid only..."vocal mic"...big bump down low....coming in right at that street price threshold for "what's the best vocal mic for $2k"...can anyone say "noob home studio market"? I'm getting cynical, I know. But, the forces driving the audio market are no longer the voices of experience.
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19th November 2012
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#50 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by popmann BETTER have a negative feedback circuit. Does it? Bet not. | What justification do have to determine the need for one and the lack of one?
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19th November 2012
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#51 | | Gear interested
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Love how the guts look and I expect excellent sound but I hate how the shockmount looks. Why can't audio technica just give us a normal old spider style shock mount instead of the crazy rope bondage hoops on the 2/4 series or this '50s robot contraption.
We all know most of us buy mics to look at more than record with.
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19th November 2012
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#52 | | Gear interested
Joined: Sep 2012 Location: Los Angeles
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Originally Posted by popmann $3k...one pattern? No thanks. I know...cardioid is the most used vocal pattern...but, still...you're gonna make some kind of innovative new design mic JUST for vocals? It BETTER have a negative feedback circuit. Does it? Bet not.
Funny, I sold the 4060 because it was only cardioid. I'd love to have a pair of those that were multipattern. I'd have even thought a multipattern 4033 would be useful.
Cardioid only..."vocal mic"...big bump down low....coming in right at that street price threshold for "what's the best vocal mic for $2k"...can anyone say "noob home studio market"? I'm getting cynical, I know. But, the forces driving the audio market are no longer the voices of experience. | I'm not an electrical engineer but you'd think with a diaphram the size of a slice of bread the applications of this mic are going to be pretty vocally-biased anyway.
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19th November 2012
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#53 | | Gear maniac
Joined: Sep 2009 Location: Portland, ME
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We used the first prototype of what is now the 5040 for many of the backing vocals on my band's record (linked below). It was a prototype, so I'm not sure what AT has changed since last summer, but initial impressions were favorable. It sounded very good, and perhaps a little bit darker than the 67 we compared it to.
That said, we went with the original vintage tube mics (Neumann and a modified Gefell, I think) for most of the leads.
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20th November 2012
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#54 | | GS Community Manager
Joined: Jan 2006 Location: Surrey / London | Quote:
Originally Posted by machoboy Love how the guts look and I expect excellent sound but I hate how the shockmount looks. Why can't audio technica just give us a normal old spider style shock mount instead of the crazy rope bondage hoops on the 2/4 series or this '50s robot contraption.
We all know most of us buy mics to look at more than record with. | The shockmount is ridiculously cool. Wait till you actually get to play with it in person...
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20th November 2012
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#55 | | Lives for gear
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I'm wondering what other types of mics will be added to the 50 series. I understand it's going to be released in January
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4th December 2012
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#56 | | Lives for gear
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It will be interesting to see what else they have in this series, but the price at the moment is an issue. I agree that 3k in the UK for a one patterned Mic is pretty steep.
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4th December 2012
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#57 | | Gear nut
Joined: Oct 2011 Location: We got lumps of it round the back
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I'll be intrigued by the off axis response of this design...
Glad to see AT pushing new ideas through in this climate, Kudos.
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15th January 2013
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#59 | | Gear maniac
Joined: Nov 2010 Location: Oregon
Posts: 266
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Apologies just found the older thread on this while trying to google the price that I didn't find here on first try.
So Bump I guess...
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16th January 2013
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#60 | | Gear Head
Joined: Dec 2011 Location: Lomita, California Baby |
It just looks cool. I want that.
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