acupunk wrote on Sun, 06 June 2004 04:49 |
Can you recommend a good mic to go with my Pendulum Quartet? for acoustics, vocals?
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I use a Pendulum Audio MDP-1A to record solo acoustic fingerstyle guitar. After running through several mics, I've found I like the following small condensers:
Microtech Gefell M295
Schoeps CMC6/MK4
I liked these better than Neumann KM184s, the Earthworks cartioids and Josephson C42s.
I have not tried Microtech Gefell M300 or M200 series, Josephson Series 6 or the THE mics.
I've tried the lower end SDs, such as the SP C4, Rode NT5, Oktava MC012 and Marshall 603s. While te Pendulum helps these mics a lot, they don't compare with the ones mentioned above.
As far as LDs go for acoustic guitar, I've owned or tried many, including Neumann TLM 103, M 149 and M 147, AEA R84 (ribbon), CAD VX2, Shure KSM 44, Microtech Gefell UM 92.1S, UMT 800 and M71S, Lawson M47, among others. My subjective view is I like the MG UMT 800 and CAD VX2 the most of these, and the R84 is very nice too.
Dunno much about mics for vocal uses with the MDP-1A. Hard to imagine how any mic could not sound great with the Pendulum pre. Keep in mind that there are two different input tranny options with the MDP-1. I use the "A" model, which uses the Jensen input tranny.