sounds like you guys need some LD mics with all this talk of warmth
someday, i need a good set of actives first. LD's will come later as something to play around with.
Well, I taped several shows with ADK-A51 TLs > pmod UA-5 and they mostly sounded muddy to me.
Besides being way too heavy to lug around at a festival, the sound achieved wasn't worth the work, IMO. YMMV.
what Brian said, if changing your sound is what you are looking for different mics will change things the most.....modsbm-1 will warm things up, so would a mini-me
agreed, I hope you get more pleasing results with the ModSBM or with a different preamp, but IMHO the sonic difference between different types of microphones is far more pronounced than the difference between the various preamps and A>D's. If you are dissatisfied with the tonal balance of your recordings I think the mics should be the first thing to try changing.
I don't want to give the Audix 1290s a bad name. I'm mostly happy with them, so a small change might be just enough. FWIW, I bought new playback gear right after buying the Audix, so that could be the biggest factor right there. I also noticed that at the outdoor venue, where my tapes sounded best, I used larger windscreens, and they could have attenuated the highs just enough. I ran both DIN and XY 120º and didn't hear much difference between the configs. At the smaller stages where the mix was usually brighter, I used the standard windscreens, but the PA could still have been the culprit.
I've already pulled the trigger on a modSBM and I'll be taping a couple of shows next month. Gives me a good chance to experiment before festival season.