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Title: Cascade microphones?
Post by: Nick's Picks on April 09, 2007, 05:49:43 PM

i've been seeing this on fleabay

http://tinyurl.com/2cc22m

short money.  tempting....maybe i'll see if I can get one for reviewing or something.

Title: Re: Cascade microphones?
Post by: kgreener on April 09, 2007, 06:26:49 PM

check this out Nick

http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,82107.0.html

Title: Re: Cascade microphones?
Post by: DSatz on April 09, 2007, 07:26:55 PM

Nick, that eBay auction is offering the entry-level version of this microphone with the "stock" transformers, not the higher-quality Lundahls, at full list price.

According to the graphs on Cascade's Web site, this microphone only reaches about 7 kHz before it starts rolling off. That's less bandwidth than modern AM radio has. It'd be very nice for nostalgic special effects; the saxophone examples on the Web site have sharp imaging thanks to the Blumlein setup, but the tone is like old-time radio (maybe updated a little).

With professional quality ribbon microphones you can get flat response beyond 10 kHz--Royer SF-12s, for example, are flat to 11 kHz and continue putting out useful signal for another half-octave almost. The difference is clear even to my tired old ears.

Title: Re: Cascade microphones?
Post by: Roving Sign on April 09, 2007, 08:31:14 PM

Their stereo ribbon mic looks interesting...Lundahls are an option on this one...

http://cascademicrophones.com/cascade_X-15.html

(http://www.cascademicrophones.com/images/X-15_200.jpg)

Title: Ribbon microphones?
Post by: bdasilva on April 11, 2007, 09:11:11 AM

http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,82551.0.html