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Gear / Technical Help => Microphones & Setup => Topic started by: F0CKER on February 23, 2010, 05:05:40 PM
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Has anyone taken on trying to build an NOS bar for the Milab VM44 Link's? Kwon / NOLAFishwater? I'm not much of a DIY'er....
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New mics????
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yes tho ive not decided if i want to get the vm44 or the dc 196 yet.
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This probably should be over in the microphone forum....
Never used the VM-44 but I love the DC-196. Not as small as the VM-44 Links, but pretty damn small especially for a LDC. By the time you buy a couple of omni caps, the 196s are actually less expensive than the 44s, and the 44s don't have a figure-8 cap.
Been using the figure-8 more than I expected. MS of course, but also spaced figure-8s ala Tony Faulkner. I've been recording a 16 member jazz vocal group with spaced figure-8s: half the signers one one side, half on the other. Then I place the rhythm in the null points off to the sides. Everyone can see and hear each other, and I get good isolation. The DC-196 is great on vocals and choirs; no harshness or "spittyness" that one sometimes gets with condensers.
Sorry to get OT, but I thought maybe this would help you decide.
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Has anyone taken on trying to build an NOS bar for the Milab VM44 Link's? Kwon / NOLAFishwater? I'm not much of a DIY'er....
Others don't like them [cough--dactylus--cough], but I find the milab mic mounts pretty versatile. So in terms of a NOS mount, just get a mic mount with the right spacing and use the mounts that come with the mics.
I've got a mic mount bar that Darktrain made that has multiple mounting holes, and the outside pair gives a pretty good NOS spacing -- 29-30 cm. [If you pick up the vm44's, I might even be convinced to sell this mounting bar, since I'm not using it too much.]
I also picked up this mount bar for my Gefells:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/534727-REG/K_M_23550_500_55_23550_Adjustable_Microphone_Bar.html#features
I haven't pulled off my milab mounts to test it exactly, but at 90 degrees and the milab mounts, it looks like it gives a spread of about 27-28 cm. So not exactly NOS, but close.
There also is a thread somewhere now (microphone section?) about a 4mic mount from sabrasom that certainly could be used with the milab mounts to get true NOS.
EDIT: On re-reading the thread, I see you're also asking about DIN. The K&M bar I've got listed above would definitely do DIN, and as I said could come close to NOS. Same with that sabrasom bar, so you could pretty easily get a standard, stock bar that would accommodate (or nearly accommodate) both patterns.
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I bought one of these for the tubes. It's nice. $85
Superlux MA-90
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Has anyone taken on trying to build an NOS bar for the Milab VM44 Link's? Kwon / NOLAFishwater? I'm not much of a DIY'er....
I'd love to see a Kwon bar ORTF and DINa - NOS/DIN for the VM-44-links
I made this DIY ORTF DINa bar
http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,116550.msg1558062.html#msg1558062 (http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,116550.msg1558062.html#msg1558062)
it's easy!
easier is same pipe with a 3/8" threaded rod and use the mic clips unaltered- with the 5/8" to 3/8" adapters that come with the mic clips.
or you could even use a delrin riser from darktrain- I suppose or other threaded 5/8" adapter
I like the lo profile of the VM-44's and am waiting to afford some omni caps
though I also really want a pair of DC196's especially for blumlein (figure 8)
If you don't need to be discreet get the 196's as they are more versatile.
peace
--Ian
going to MMW tomorrow
hopefully the recording will be stellar!
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going to MMW tomorrow
hopefully the recording will be stellar!
:coolguy: