Topic: New Samson Condenser set : CL2

[Roving Sign]

Maybe something to challenge the C4 kits...

http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1902&brandID=2.

Kind of slick...like those shockmounts...!

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/CL2/

http://cgi.ebay.com/Samson-CL2-Pencil-Condenser-Microphones-NEW_W0QQitemZ260024501361QQihZ016QQcategoryZ133012QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

[RemotelyLocated]

Figured I'd group some 30-second samples of these mics to this post, since there don't seem to be other samples mentioned on this site. This is a very nice omni/card SDC kit. The samples are of a H.S. choir + piano accompaniment, although the last cut features guest adult opera singers (!).

https://soundcloud.com/deckert-audio/sets/ehs-samples-fall-2013-1

Mics are at stage lip about 5 ft above the stage, 22" apart. Omni, A-B. I apply a high pass filter rolling off the lows starting at about 150Hz on down due to the LOUD roar from the auditorium's HVAC. I set levels once, at the beginning of the recording and let it ride, which turned out well and left enough headroom for the final ending which was the loudest part of the show. That said, I don't remember if the samples I uploaded were normalized; they might be?

I thought the recording sounded good listening on 2 different pairs of headphones but when I played it back on speakers I was thrilled with how everything sounded.

[Jammin72]

Quality Bump.

Will check out the file later.

Quite the presence peak in the omni.  Seems suited for far field work.

[RemotelyLocated]

Oh, you mean the charts in the owner's manual? I just now looked at that and you're right. Overall, the cardioid caps seem flatter up top, if not as even.

I didn't even consider trying a little EQ cut up there; might have helped mellow it just a touch.

[Phil Zone]

I own a pair of these. They were the first mic I ever owned for taping. And I liked them a lot, now I use them as a beater pair of mics or second or third stage stuff. I used them at gotv and they were great, they seems to get a lot of kick drum and not the most deep bass but they are a great mic especially with shocks at 200. A steal for something as good. And the quality is very nice, they are rugged.

[RemotelyLocated]

That's good to know. Do you have much experience with their high pass filter? I do mostly stage-lip recordings, sometimes with mics only 1ft from the floor (on stage)picking up footfalls or am fighting HVAC roar.

Just wondering (in general, possibly) if it's really better to cut out what I can at the source or wait until post. In other words the lo freq noise isn't loud enough to cause overload or whatever, just annoyance. And I realize all filters, be they mechanical, electrical or software, are imperfect in various ways.

[runonce]

Wait till post for high-pass is conventional wisdom around here...

[Phil Zone]

Wait till post for high-pass is conventional wisdom around here...