Topic: Avantone CK-1

[Rick]

Just got these in mail today...

1st impression of the microphones (not the sound) is that look and feel pretty good. They seem well built and they sure are pretty  The bad thing about these is that the card caps don't fit the cap case. They are to tall with the grill and the card cap is the only one with a grill.

Since I don't have a recorder at the moment, I'm not sure when I'm going to be able to test them out, but Tim is getting a pair which he is planning to use this week. 

[Rick]

These are a tight fit in the shocks too. I don't see the bands lasting that long 

[Teen Wolf Blitzer]

Those look pretty sweet!  +t for new toys.

[Rick]

oh and fyi - these are made in China

[rowjimmy]

oh and fyi - these are made in China

I'm shocked. 
They do look sweet. Price ain't too shabby too. keep us posted.

[drewloo]

The cardiod cap looks similar to a Peluso hypercard cap, and the hyper and omni caps look like a Peluso wide-card cap.  I'd bet they're identical housings but with different innards.   

[wbrisette]

The cardiod cap looks similar to a Peluso hypercard cap, and the hyper and omni caps look like a Peluso wide-card cap.  I'd bet they're identical housings but with different innards.   

You can be sure of one thing and one thing only... The design will be taken from somebody. The company I work for has been putting all sorts of things into a chip we designed to prevent reverse engineering, in partiuclar by one company in China who we sell the chip to. They have pretty much ripped off everybody else's design and they have no issues with doing it. Now,  how it sounds is a totally different story. Few if any companies in China are know for quality control, so you can end up with 10 mics all of which have a different sound.

Rick, once you get your recorder back, I am interested in hearing what you think.

Wayne

[Rick]

Now,  how it sounds is a totally different story. Few if any companies in China are know for quality control, so you can end up with 10 mics all of which have a different sound.

Rick, once you get your recorder back, I am interested in hearing what you think.

Wayne

According to Avantone they check each mic to make sure they sound all the same. But that could be fluff

[Rick]

My vote is for the T+ mod UA-5 so we can hear what the mics sound like on their own.

Sounds good to me too

[KLowe]

second on the T mod.

+t

[Rick]

mine arrived today. 

i did a quick test with the cards and they seem to be matched very close, within .5 dB of each other, so i'm pleased.

as for the sound of them, i'm going to hopefully run them on wednesday night for Of Montreal.

i'll be ~20' from the stage at most and i was thinking about running hypers for the opener and cards for the main set so we can get a feel for what both sound like.

i have a couple choices for what to run behind them.  anyone have a preference between:
 
  eaa psp2 > edirol r1 @24/44
or
  oade t+ ua5 > h120 @ 16/48

i have no problem doing one or the other..................

Hey Tim, were you able to test these out?

[Rick]

I thought he was going to do both

[dgodwin]

tim had let me know of an error on the upstatetapers tracker, so he might be putting it on there.  I thought he was going to run both as well, but maybe something came up.

[Roving Sign]

I ran the CK-1s this weekend...unfortunately the gig suffered from horrible sound...so not the greatest evaluation material...

Very nice venue at a local church - but this particular Bluegrass gospel group always runs their monitors too loud - which makes the main PA sound like an inaudible mushy mess...

But I think the recorded results were promising...the CK1s captured the muddy mushy PA mix very nicely!  I ran one set of cards, one set of hypers...I don't feel let down by the mics at all...but I'd feel better with a well mixed gig for evaluation...(and to fluff!)

[mrsoul]

I got the pair from Tim and hope to give them a full run at the Wanee this year.  Will be good to compare them with my SP-CMC-4 setup.  Anybody have a good recommendation on some windscreens for these?  I think they are 19mm caps.

mrsoul