« on: May 26, 2005, 10:57:49 AM »
Got my first chance to run the MK21s last night, and have absolutely fallen in love...
It was in a less than ideal setting for subcards - a small chatty bar with horrible acoustics. I kept thinking the whole time "what am I doing? this is a horrible setting for these caps". I was clamped to the balcony, which is actually only about 5 feet from the stage and about 10 feet up. When you clamp to the part of the rail just above the floor the mics are pretty much straight on with the PA.
Got home, threw the tape in expecting the worst...I was floored! The sound is so full, so natural, like it's engulfing you for lack of a better description. Not brittle like hypers can tend to be, and not flat sounding like a lot of straight card tapes, just phenomenal.
Yeah the PA was shitty, the crowd was a bunch of morons, etc. - but what a wonderful reproduction of said shitty PA and moronic audience. Throw these in front of a real sound system...holy shit.
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Right now nothing...in the past: Schoeps CMC6, AKG 480, AKG 460, AKG 414, MBHO 603a, Neumann KM100, ADK TL>Schoeps MK4, Schoeps MK2, Schoeps MK41, AKG ck61, AKG ck62, AKG ck63, Neumann AK40, Neumann AK50, MBHO ka200>Lunatec V2, Lunatec V3, Apogee Mini-Me, Oade M148, Oade M248, Sound Devices MP2, Sonosax SXM2>Sony (mod)SBM1, Apogee AD500>D7, D8, D100, M1, R1, R4, R09, iRiver HP120, Microtrack