Well I will be taping from the section tomorrow night at 930 club. About 35" back and about 10' LOC. So if it is intended only for up close taping, my recording should sound like crap.
So I was wondering, how did it turn out........?
I was just about to post about this.
First off I found out that they were playing on Sunday night in Towson MD. A little longer trip, but I didn't have to be up at 7 on monday morning, as I did on Saturday. So I skipped the friday DC and did the Towson show instead. The funny thing is that the recher sounds very good as well and the section is almost exactley in the same spot as 930; 35' back and about 15' LOC.
I think it came out really well. I ran the cards XY-90. I am overwhelmed by how good this mic sounds at a $500 price point. I think I posted somewhere else that it would even be a steal at its MSRP. There is an intensity to the sound that you don't neccesarily get from a stereo pair of mics. Now I do think that they are probably not in the same league as the 414s or 140s, but I am still damn impressed and I am going to run this mic a good few times before I go back to either of my other pairs of mics. I can't wait to run it M/S, and blumlein. Also can't wait to see what it does in different venues and for different types of acts.
My analysis of the sound so far:
It has a nice warm, and smooth sound. Very detailed in the upper end, despite a slight disappointment in the cymbals of the drum kit. But I also think that the drum kit was either not mic'ed up very well or was not mixed in very well. Because the kick drum also lacked some definition. Karl D's flute sounded amazing though, and vocals were super clean. Even with the missing definition in the kick drum, I really liked the bass. It can get a little sloppy at times but overall it's really FAT and smooth. I am no expert here by any means but I do really like the mic a lot and am very very very satisfied with the recording. I think if for some reason my km140s and 414s were both to just explode randomly, I would still feel confident going into the next show that I was gonna pull a very very nice recording with the LSD2>V3. I am going to have to run it a least a couple more times to get a good feeling on how much I really like it.
I did notice how shitty the pins in the connector at the bottom of the mic are. I tried to just do it by feeling around and then guessing where the pins were when I tried to insert the xlr end, while the mic was already up there in the mount and I couldnt exactley see pins. I am not too fond of that "procedure" with this mic. From now on I will connect the xlr with the mic upside down, so I can stare right into it and not fumble around with the pins. Then slide the mic up into the mount.
I can't wait to run it again.
