DPA 4006 vs Schoeps MK2 - samples

[George Necola]

thanx for the shootout

can you please make em with heavymetal-drums *joking*

very interesting! cheers

[Bravin Neff]

Originally Posted by ABBA

Hmm, lots of bloody foreigners here I must say.
Aren't Danish and German mics interesting enough for you americans?
China is not a part of Europe you know...

(only kidding)

Hey, I am American, and I was first to respond!

Ahh... but I'm not a proper Gearslut, so I probably don't count.

Carry on.

P.s. I have been dreaming of MK2s and MK4s for a while, and this thread has totally reawakened that in me.

[sonare]

That was the point-- there are no 32-bit converters, and the wordlength internally expands to 32-bit floating as soon as you do anything in your DAW. You are merely adding empty zeroes and are wasting alot of HD space this way. Once you bounce your files to the chosen format the wordlength is reduced to 24 or 16.

Rich

[Mats H]

Originally Posted by sonare

That was the point-- there are no 32-bit converters, and the wordlength internally expands to 32-bit floating as soon as you do anything in your DAW. You are merely adding empty zeroes and are wasting alot of HD space this way. Once you bounce your files to the chosen format the wordlength is reduced to 24 or 16.

Rich

The nice thing about saving in 32 bit mode is that the "mix engine" of you favourite DAW doesn´t have to quantize down to 24 bits, and if you have a clipped mix with some peaks above 0, you´ll still have them in your 32 bit file.

[safa]

Originally Posted by ISedlacek

C1 was a sheer crap (I cannot say the same about B5), but 4041 did not sound very great either - very edgy, lacking a body ... (I was quite surprised). Beyer was OK but not comparable to U87 ...

... I think that you should avoid of statements like this, Ivo. I have been there as well and I have to argue ... for my ears is Beyer quite comparable to U87 ... no doubt . Just listen to that demo samples we`ve recorded.

[safa]

2Ivo,

BTW nextime we should try 4006s with the DD0254 grid attached (as Mr. klaukholm recomends) and maybe brand new 4090 or 4091 as well ... what do you think about ?

[hrn]

Ivo,
Thanks for the samples! I think the DPA sounds more natural and open especially in the higher frequencies than the Schoeps almost like the DPA reaches higher.

It would be interesting to know how the AKG C480B/CK62-ULS would compare. I've heard that it can be compared with DPA and Schoeps in quality.

Nice instruments you have there, you could do a career in east Asia

Thanks again thumbsup
Hans

[ISedlacek]

Originally Posted by safa

... I think that you should avoid of statements like this, Ivo. I have been there as well and I have to argue ... for my ears is Beyer quite comparable to U87 ... no doubt . Just listen to that demo samples we`ve recorded.

YMMV ... For my ears it was not. Anyway, I may post those LD mics samples as well ...

Originally Posted by safa

2Ivo,

BTW nextime we should try 4006s with the DD0254 grid attached (as Mr. klaukholm recomends) and maybe brand new 4090 or 4091 as well ... what do you think about ?

Interesting idea. But I am already fully back in the creative music alchemy process and I left the technical side quite behind

[Westmalle]

The links to the soundfiles don't work.

[d_fu]

Originally Posted by Westmalle

The links to the soundfiles don't work.

This thread is over two years old now...

[sharpeleven]

Originally Posted by Westmalle

The links to the soundfiles don't work.

bummer, would love to hear'em...

[huub]

MetooMetooMetoo!

[Audiop]

Originally Posted by d_fu

This thread is over two years old now...

Which IMO it's worthless to link to files on external sites. IMO audio and images in threads should be saved to the host server to make the discussions interesting for future readers.


/Peter