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Title: microphone test/comparison: which outtake do you prefer?
Post by: muj on November 13, 2006, 01:49:04 PM: uploaded 4 tracks

the link is here

test.rar - 9.55MB (http://www.zshare.net/download/test-rar-a7f.html)

direct link here (if the above does not work)

http://www.zshare.net/download/test-rar-a7f.html

the lineage of the outtakes are:

microphone>STUDER D19>LA-22>Soundscape converter>HD( with wavelabs dithering for 16bit)

I will reveal the name of the mics later :-*

Hope you enjoy, and the tracks are part of tracking for a norwegian rock band debut album ( basically real-life studio tracks before additional processing during mixdown and mastering)

>:D
Title: Re: microphone test/comparison: which outtake do you prefer?
Post by: muj on November 15, 2006, 05:59:01 AM: bump
Title: Re: microphone test/comparison: which outtake do you prefer?
Post by: Ryan Sims on November 15, 2006, 07:28:32 AM: Interesting comparison Muj. +T.

For me, it's a toss up between files 1 and 2. Both sound just a bit smoother than 3 and 4 to my ears. In the latter two I heard some harshness on her highest notes. Tonally though, the mics seemed quite similar to me.

Wow, apparently my ears weren't awake yet when I listened. 1 doesn't sound nearly as good as 2 does to me now, 3 sounds much better than it did to me earlier, and 4 sounds really good. It would go 4, 2, 3, 1 for me now. I guess the decongestant hadn't kicked yet when I first listened.
Title: Re: microphone test/comparison: which outtake do you prefer?
Post by: KLowe on November 15, 2006, 08:09:57 AM: In order of preference
4, 2, 1, 3 (all pretty damn close though) 4 my choice b/c I thought it really opened things up. (1 and 3 virtually identical to my ears)

...... damn that chick is really pissed at someone... hypocrit
Title: Re: microphone test/comparison: which outtake do you prefer?
Post by: muj on November 15, 2006, 08:46:56 AM: Interesting observations. +T my personal favourite is also track 4 >:D
Title: Re: microphone test/comparison: which outtake do you prefer?
Post by: muj on November 15, 2006, 08:52:24 AM: the microphones for track 2 and 3 are from the same microphone company and share the same capsule, only the circuitry is different and the voicing >:D
Title: Re: microphone test/comparison: which outtake do you prefer?
Post by: thegreatgumbino on November 15, 2006, 01:13:39 PM: Quote from: muj on November 15, 2006, 08:52:24 AM
the microphones for track 2 and 3 are from the same microphone company and share the same capsule, only the circuitry is different and the voicing >:D

SPA mod AKG ck62's & JW Mod 460's?
Title: Re: microphone test/comparison: which outtake do you prefer?
Post by: muj on November 16, 2006, 04:25:15 AM: [/quote]

SPA mod AKG ck62's & JW Mod 460's?
[/quote]

not quite ;D more like tube vs slid state

anyone else?
Title: Re: microphone test/comparison: which outtake do you prefer?
Post by: muj on November 19, 2006, 07:53:43 AM: bump
Title: Re: microphone test/comparison: which outtake do you prefer?
Post by: muj on November 29, 2006, 09:10:22 AM: bump
Title: Re: microphone test/comparison: which outtake do you prefer?
Post by: stirinthesauce on November 29, 2006, 02:05:24 PM: Hey muj,
Downloaded the file this morning but it was unreadable by window ??? Was this a wav. file, flac. file, ??? Really want to give this a listen.
Title: Re: microphone test/comparison: which outtake do you prefer?
Post by: muj on November 29, 2006, 02:19:47 PM: yes these are .wav and can be played on most players.
Title: Re: microphone test/comparison: which outtake do you prefer?
Post by: stirinthesauce on November 29, 2006, 02:27:49 PM: Quote from: muj on November 29, 2006, 02:19:47 PM
yes these are .wav and can be played on most players.

hmmm, weird. I'll re-download again when I get home. Some weird file extension is what I got the a.m., definitely not .wav
Title: Re: microphone test/comparison: which outtake do you prefer?
Post by: muj on November 29, 2006, 03:07:37 PM: yep do that!

i might as well reveal what mics were used

mic 1 was karma k55 tube mic

http://www.karmamics.com/products.htm

mic 2 was microtech gefell um92.1s

www.microtechgefell.de

mic 2 was microtech gefell umt800

mic 4 was --like all the people liked the most- pearl dt40

www.pearl.se

>:D
Title: Re: microphone test/comparison: which outtake do you prefer?
Post by: TNJazz on November 29, 2006, 04:07:45 PM: The file is compressed. You need WinRAR (or Winzip) to decompress it. That's the questionable file extension.