Topic: First outing w/the Peluso CEMC6 stereo kit....

[Nick's Picks]

Hey all..

So I went out last night with the new Peluso stereo kit that just arrived.  I recorded Hairy Apes BMX (awesome band, btw.  definately check them out, you'll be pleasantly entertained and surprised, as I was).
Any way...
I was 10' off the stage, dead centered running XY w/the card caps.

TIGHT sounding mics!!  Real solid in the bottom end with authority and not an ouce of slop.  The high end sounds not overly bright nor harsh at all.  Realistic, I guess.  Detailed, but not overly critical or anything like that.  Overall no coloration to what I heard last night.  And being so close to the source, there is a lot of stage mix going on. There is some great imaging and depth in the recording as a result.  Layes of musicains in the dead center spot (drums, bass behind and saxy behind the other percussionist).  I'm quite impressed.

BTW, the mics are nice.  The kit rocks.  4 sets of caps, super fat shock mounts (add these to the list of bulletproof mounts...$35!).  The case looks like it should be handcuffed to a secrete angent.  Even has locks. 
The guns themselves are about 480 sized, maybe a little fatter.  I"ll post some pictures of them shortly.
If anyone wants to hear my recording, just PM me and i"ll send you 24/48 files or a playable DVD (disc at once, unfortunately)
fwiw, this kit would retail for just over $1300.  a bargain, if you ask me.  Especialy if the other caps measure up as nice as the cards.

[OOK]

Thanks nic for checking these out......I saw these mics months ago and was wondering what they were like...
I have seen all the previous posts and I was wondering  how do they compare to the schoeps..............
.....similar or was it all hype?

[Nick's Picks]

shit...I dont know.
at that range last night, every mic would sound nice.  If I had a pair of mk4s handy, i would have run them in the other stereo pair.  I try to imagine how a shoeps source would sound, but who knows throught the R4s mic preamps...which are pretty impressive, i'm finding.  impressive for edirol any way.
I'm sure i'll get a chance to put them head to head w/a pair of schempzies eventualy.

[bhtoque]

Too bad I couldn't make it back up to the church for the second night of Hairy Apes. They played till 2 am, and I got home about 3:30. Getting up for work was damn near impossible, and I sleepwalked through the day.

Glad to hear you were able to get out of the house.

I'm still mourning the loss of the R-4, but if I pull a good tape @ Black Crowes tonight I'll start to get over it.

Not sure if John cleared off Oshe and Hairy Apes from Wednesday, but Oshe's set was 184's>V3>DA-P1>R-4 coax in

and Apes was LSD2>MiAGi II>R-4

If you would be kind enough to send me flacs of the files I recorded and last night's BMX I'd be much obliged.

JAson

[Nick's Picks]

send me your mailing addie jason

[Tim]

what caps did they come with?

[Nick's Picks]

the kit came with omnis, wide cards , card and hypers.
2 shock mounts
crappy windscreens, but no biggie there.

The shock mounts are very impressive.  I like them better than the ATs, or just about anything else I can think of. If only they came in black...

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Great looking set! $1300ish isn't bad for all that stuff.

[Massive Dynamic]

Check out SoundPure for their Peluso selection, including the CEMC6 pair.  You have to email for pricing, but they also have an ebay store where they are selling the CEMC6 pair for $535 with card caps.  I have no affiliation with them, just been looking around for the best price on these mics.  Could be replacing my current mics if they are as good as Nick says. 

[el gato]

Those shockmounts look very similar to these.  The band looks thicker on the Peluso's but these are black

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=41466&item=3775128604

[bhtoque]

The mounts look very similar to the LSD2's mount.

JAson

[Nick's Picks]

Soundpure is the major distributer, and the guy behind the eBay sales.

the pair, with any capsule you want for $500odd is a great price.  $170 per pair of caps after the fact.
not bad!

[Nick's Picks]

hey all...
some sound bytes:  www.nickspicks.com/mp3/haBMX.mp3
128k encode (I know, I know).

sucks to be on slow dial up.

I tried to upload the same track in 16/44 FLAC, but only 30mb (of a 40mb file) made it up there.
you can download the partial file and decode/play it if you really want to hear what these mics sound like.
I"ll be doing some head to heads w/the 480s soon.
www.nickspicks.com/mp3/haBMX.FLAC for that partial file.
PM me if anyone wants to hear the 24/96 masters, i'll mail it to you.

[d5]

Nick thanks for the good information! +t

[d5]

Those shockmounts look very similar to these.  The band looks thicker on the Peluso's but these are black

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=41466&item=3775128604

Has anyone tried using this or similar shockmount to hold a single shure vertical bar with a pair of mics? it maybe too much weight or too loopsided.