anyone have experience w/ these mics?
http://www.rode.com.au/specsnt5/nt5specs.htm
found them for $300/ matched pair. sounds like a good deal to me.
I have a pair for sale, I'm the one who posted on the akg thread in the yard sale. Here is the real dirt on the mics. I like the mics as a whole. here are some pro's: They are FANTASTIC stage mics for the price. The fact that they are matched is going to help with the overall imaging which is great if that is important to you. They have a very broad frequency responce for the money, and to my ears they are uncolored in sound. They capture the lows quite well are are extreemly well suited for acoustic music. They work with a wide range of phantom power voltages (9-48). I originally bought these mics to work with a portable mixer for mixing sound board feed and stages mics, and they are extreemly well suited for that. The only thing I don't like about them is because they pick up the lows well, and they have no bass rolloff switch, I have found myself doing a lot of post production work when I record at some venues to cut out some of the bass. With more acoustic shows, this in not an issue, its a bennefit. If you use an "xy" config, it is less of a problem I've found.
I have recently recorded side by side with a akg c1000 > v3 > laptop source and I have part of his recording. The c1000 isn't know for bass responce, and that was a bennifit to him in that situation... it was very boomy and my mics reproduced what my ears heard (and what my chest felt). After I eq'd the bass down, I liked mine much better. I also shared a stand with a guy who was using octavas (mk 012's I think) a week or two ago, and he had some technical difficulties on the main show, but he got the opener. During the opener we wern't sharing a stand, but our mics were within 10' of each other, so it should still be a good comparison. We were on a balcony at the back of the venue and the bass echoed badly. We stuck the mics out off the balcony to help this situation. The opener I was agout 30 inches off the balcony, and for the main act we were both 8-10 ft off the balcony. In this case I only did a -1-2 db cut @ 86 hz and it sounds great. I could have gotten by without touching it, but I don't care for heavy bass.
So... if you are interested in a set of these mics, I will be selling them for $250 and I will include a stereo bar. I'm still trying to work out set lists for the two shows so I haven't uploaded them yet to the archive, although that is my intent. If you are interested I will get you both of these shows with comparisons to the other mics. I have not yet advertised these mics formally, because I think I may be doing a 4-mic stage mic mix on the 9th at a bennefit concert for a local jazz musician/friend. After that they will be available for sale.
Contact me if you would like more info.
Matt
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