Topic: Schoeps V4 U vocal microphone

[StuStu]

I thought this might be of interest to some here.


http://www.reddingaudio.com/schoeps-v4.php

[John Willett]

There is also a video HERE recorded at IBC in Amsterdam on Friday with Helmut Wittek of Schoeps talking about the new mic.

There are 14+ videos at the IBC - a crew from the Institute of Professional Sound are going around talking to various manufacturers about new products - you can see them all HERE.

[fotoralf.be]

Am I the only one who is a little disappointed that Schoeps have come up with a pseudo-vintage zeitgeist product?

I had them in an especially high esteem for the exact reason that they kept themselves out of this hype that's already infected all the others.

What next? A round of slumming with a 'budget' Schoeps mic à la TLM 103?

Ralf

[DSatz]

fotoralf, instead of this microphone, what do you think Schoeps should be making for location recordists that they don't already offer? I mean that question seriously, not just rhetorically; I have some ideas of my own, but am curious about other people's.

Their mikes are used in studios a fair amount, particularly in Europe, though, and I think the company is entitled to reach out more to that market. Many vocalists find it peculiar or even unsettling to be miked by a pencil-type microphone in a studio setting; they prefer something side-addressed, with a distinctive, attractive look to it. That preference may not be 100% rational, but there you have it.

Also, I have to ask: Can a microphone really be called "retro" when hardly anyone alive today has seen the earlier model that its look is based on? I've used Schoeps mikes for 40 years now, but the only CM-whatever-it-is that I've ever seen first-hand is the one they keep in the glass case at the company. They had to go out of their way to talk it up and show a picture of it in the brochure, just so that people would know that Schoeps had once made a similar-looking capsule head in the past.

--best regards

[myke2241]

fotoralf, instead of this microphone, what do you think Schoeps should be making for location recordists that they don't already offer? I mean that question seriously, not just rhetorically; I have some ideas of my own, but am curious about other people's.

Their mikes are used in studios a fair amount, particularly in Europe, though, and I think the company is entitled to reach out more to that market. Many vocalists find it peculiar or even unsettling to be miked by a pencil-type microphone in a studio setting; they prefer something side-addressed, with a distinctive, attractive look to it. That preference may not be 100% rational, but there you have it.

Also, I have to ask: Can a microphone really be called "retro" when hardly anyone alive today has seen the earlier model that its look is based on? I've used Schoeps mikes for 40 years now, but the only CM-whatever-it-is that I've ever seen first-hand is the one they keep in the glass case at the company. They had to go out of their way to talk it up and show a picture of it in the brochure, just so that people would know that Schoeps had once made a similar-looking capsule head in the past.

--best regards

"Retro" may have been lost in translation. i do think it is ok to call it retro because he is referring to the look. Anyways i am pretty excited. Schoeps already offers so many options and i think this is a great addition. the standards in VO recording is kind of a bore these days. 416, U87, U47 hear those mics all the time gets a little dull. This i will hope fits into that classic VO sound but in the Schoeps way. I just hope pricing is not insane.

[F.O.Bean]

I am quite happy they released this mic!!! Its just another example of Schoeps not caring about what other companies/people think and put out a product they can be 100% proud of. And lets not forget, we ARE talking about Schoeps, so Im SURE it sounds very good, just like all of their other products

[Nick's Picks]

sexy.  but will it make my singing any better?  that's what I need in a vocal mic.  self correcting pitch, vibrato, tone and lyrical content.