chickenbop wrote on Wed, 05 May 2004 22:53 |
I think m-160's suck and are overpriced as overheads.It seems I'm the only one who thinks so though.The fact that they're hypercardoid made me hope that they would be great in x/y pretty close.You know-so I could get a wider image out of x/y while also getting more separation than usual.But the proximity on the m-160's is super nasty.I've heard people say they use a m-160 as a hat mic also but I tried that with no success.I had the mic like a foot above the hat and at first I thought I'd blown a ribbon.The bottom end was terrible.So for me,any supposed benefit of the hypercardoid pattern is cancelled out by the fact that you can't use the mic up close. The frequency graph of a m-160 is based on being 1 meter(about 3 feet) from the object.So,if you're miking about a foot away it's like plus 10db down under. I recently got some groove tube gt-44's that are incredible as overheads.They smooth out the harshness of cymbals the way I've heard PEOPLE SAY the m-160's do.They only cost me $399 a piece from banjo mart. JULES-DON'T BUY THE M-160's! |