Topic: single point stereo mic options?

[BobW]

I think that the LSD2 is your best bet but those AKG's are sweet if you can find one....

the little exposure I've had to the LSD2 has left me with a very favorable impression

fwiw - dnsacks runs lsd2->tmod+

I do as well, a t-mod FR-2    I like it with the LSD2 and the AT ES943s.

Want a disc or two to blow through yer ears ?

[EDIT]  I can upload a few FLACs 24/96 or 16/44.1  of a really cool acoustic trio just off the box today using LSD2
Check your PMs for a hyper link to some MP3s of SCI/RRE from 11/27/04

BTW, I doubt that you could get the hyper localization from a tight M-S large diagphram configuration.
You'd still get alot of the room even from the front (M) cardiod mic.
What you don't get with the LDs is that hyper "phasey-ness" that sometimes shows up in a concert hall.
I'd rather have the "natural" audience noise than the phase distortions, YMMV.

[kskreider]

I have used a Shure VP88 before.  They are reasonably price used...

[BobW]

I have used a Shure VP88 before.  They are reasonably price used...

Does the VP88 do X-Y ? If so does it have a hyper setting ?

[Brian Skalinder]

Does the VP88 do X-Y ? If so does it have a hyper setting ?

Shure VP88 doesn't fit my needs - it runs strictly M-S (card/figure-8) with no option for other configs, i.e. Blumlein or XY (though one could approximate XY via M-S), and rolls off a bit much for my tastes starting at ~100Hz:

[muj]

there is a guy in sweden selling his pearl tl44 for a very nice price.

i can ask for details if you want to.

[BobW]

im sure its a long shot, but does gefell make what you are looking for in your price range?

http://www.microtechgefell.de/eng/home.htm

No, no they do not.
You can stack 930s for sweet multi-channel X-Y or run a fairly large array ORTF.

[d5]

If I was in the market today for mic's, the LSD2 would be at the top of my list. It has a very reasonable price, nice sound, nice construction. The 426 is a fantastic mic, but that price....

[Genghis Cougar Mellen Khan]

As far as availability / pricing goes, the LSD2 looks like the clear winner, though I'd love to stick with AKG if they're available and within my price range.  I've Googled a bit and not found any useful information re used pricing on the C422 or C24.  Hmmmmm...time to d/l some LSD2 samples...

Just a heads up:

http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=42973.msg553468#msg553468

Oade.com has a few comp samples of the LSD2 up, they might help. http://oade.com/Tapers_Section/rig_list.html

[Craig T]

some recent Hot Buttered Rum String Band with the LSD2>V3...

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=14588
http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=14587

[Brian Skalinder]

there is a guy in sweden selling his pearl tl44 for a very nice price.

i can ask for details if you want to.

Thanks, Muj, but I think I'll pass - seems the TL44 is 2 fixed-pattern cardioids that uses a controller box to adjust the pickup pattern across omni / cardioid / figure-8.  I think that means I can't run Blumlein, but rather only a single figure-8 (by adjusting the controller box to create a single figure-8 pattern from the 2 fixed-pattern cardioid membranes):

A variety of polar patterns may be obtained by bringing the output of each membrane into separate mixer channels. In effect they provides two discrete cardioid outputs which may be used simultaneously or independently one of the other to obtain cardioid, omni, figure of eight, 180 degrees coincident stereo and virtually any pattern in between by use of the mixing console.

[macdaddy]

what does that mic cost new..?

As far as availability / pricing goes, the LSD2 looks like the clear winner, though I'd love to stick with AKG if they're available and within my price range.  I've Googled a bit and not found any useful information re used pricing on the C422 or C24.  Hmmmmm...time to d/l some LSD2 samples...

Just a heads up:

http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=42973.msg553468#msg553468

Oade.com has a few comp samples of the LSD2 up, they might help. http://oade.com/Tapers_Section/rig_list.html

[Craig T]

what does that mic cost new..?

I believe its about $800 street.

[Nick's Picks]

Brian...
your best bet, according to your budget and tastes...would be the c422.  Its two 414 capsules, after all.  How can you go wrong?
the one thing I liked about the 414s over the 422 is the ability to run the omnis.   but if I had to choose, 422 all the way.

post an ISO on rec.audio.pro, and i bet you'll find one.  You can get them around $15-800 used, with some search time.
last time I looked for one (for carl), I found several, as well as a c34. 
fwiw, I prefer the sound of the 422 over the c34.  the 34 is a little grating in the high-frequencies, imo. 

[carlbeck]

You can't go wrong with any of the AKG stereo mics, now if you could only find a C24 in your price range I would trade you a new 426 for it