Topic: Blue Ball Mics

[BobW]

Anyone try these in a small club ?

http://www.bluemic.com/images_products/ball.htm

[Jason B]

To me it's more of an all purpose, SM-57 type mic. It's dynamic, which wouldn't make for good live recordings in my opinion.


-JB

[King Crimson]

Those mics always looked HELLA fragile to me.  Dont think I'd risk it.

[hoobash]

Trust me you dont want blue balls

[sexymexi]

hahaha too funny..  i wouldn't use them for live recording either.. lacking in frequency range for one, i'm sure it sounds good for a guitar cabinet or somthing. but yea...

[dmonterisi]

well, at least we found mics with a worse name than giant squids.

[cpclark]

i bet they actually would sound really good on a guitar amp, if i could get ahold of one i could try it out at our next practice

[heath]

I've got one, getting a second....Love em for studio use.  I've been real impressed as a guitar cab mic and also for certain vocal situations.  This mic is no wuss either...it's heavy and definitely Not fragile.  For the $ it can do sooooo much.  If anyone wants to borrow it and test it out, I might be willing to ship it out after the new year for a little while.

Heath

[Jason B]

it's heavy and definitely Not fragile.  

This is funny because in the review that Recording Magaizine did on this mic, they accidentally dropped it off of a chair to the studio floor and it broke. The internal wiring came loose. Blue had to overnight them a replacement I believe so they could finish the review!

-JB

[heath]

mine has yet to break--however, i wouldn't submit any mic to a drop test.  I mean it's no more fragile than a u89 or a 414.  Bottom line, don't drop mics and you'll be fine.  Unless you want to talk about 57's.  I've got some cool sound effects from driving down semoran blvd with a 57 being dragged 2 feet behind my truck (on purpose)>v2>p1.  also a few of it stuffed in the exhaust and also taped under the hood. oh yeah i also put it in a condom and threw it into a lake.  cool noises.  mics still worked until i decided to record it being run over by my truck a few times (surprisingly it took multiple passes to finally break the mic into a unworkable state).  

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[Jason B]

 

-JB

[Brian]

Nice heath! +T

[heath]

always trying to experiment...

+T back at cha

[cpclark]

very nice work heath, im gonna be picking up some 57's after the new year for guitar cabs and various drums

[heath]

i've heard some killer dead shows done with 421's.  Moke is right!  Don't underestimate the dynamic!!!