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Title: Omnis
Post by: nicegrin on January 22, 2008, 09:47:48 PM

There seem not to be so many good stealth omnis under a $1000 to consider.
These you hear about most of the times are:

Core sound binaurals
SP CMC-4U (AT 853s)
SP CMC-8 (AT 943s)
MM HLSO (sennheiser MK2Es)
SS DSM-6s
OKM II-r (sennheiser capsules)
DPAs
Coresound HEBs (DPAs basically)

Any others I missed?








 


 

Title: Re: Omnis
Post by: dennisrtyler on January 22, 2008, 10:27:39 PM

chris church recently added omni caps to his line

Title: Re: Omnis
Post by: udo on January 22, 2008, 10:53:27 PM

Quote from: dennisrtyler on January 22, 2008, 10:27:39 PM

chris church recently added omni caps to his line

I am a very happy customer of those - great sounding microphones!
I posted a binaural ambience recording her:
http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,96418.30.htm (http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,96418.30.htm)l

Title: Re: Omnis
Post by: boojum on January 23, 2008, 12:35:14 AM

I believe the SP-CMC-4U's are cards.  Nice mics.

Title: Re: Omnis
Post by: TNJazz on January 23, 2008, 12:54:34 AM

Nevaton MCE400

 ;D

Title: Re: Omnis
Post by: sunjan on January 24, 2008, 06:06:26 AM

Quote from: nicegrin on January 22, 2008, 09:47:48 PM

There seem not to be so many good stealth omnis under a $1000 to consider.
These you hear about most of the times are:
...
SP CMC-4U (AT 853s)

I'm running stock AT853s, which are good, but the omni caps are out of production AFAIK, and rare as hen's teeth, so you'll be lucky to find them even second hand...

/Jan

Title: Re: Omnis
Post by: mozmoz8 on January 24, 2008, 02:35:11 PM

Hi, DPA406X are good mics but I don't like what Core-Sound did to them (cutting off the connectors and using their battery).

Title: Re: Omnis
Post by: Gutbucket on January 24, 2008, 03:09:21 PM

Quote from: mozmoz8 on January 24, 2008, 02:35:11 PM

Hi, DPA406X are good mics but I don't like what Core-Sound did to them (cutting off the connectors and using their battery).

If you're choosing between the miniature DPA's, go with the 4060's over the 4061's unless you can find the 61's for a much better price. The 4060's have better specs and a significantly lower noisefloor.  Use the short grids with them as the long grids generally produce too much boost around 10kHz for our apps.

I'm really liking what I'm hearing from the recent Nevaton samples, just keep in mind they require phantom power and have a full size XLR termination.  I dig the side address capsule.

I've also liked what I've heard from the MK2E's - less ultimate transparency and extention than the DPA's at both ends of the spectrum but smooth and 'right' sounding to me.