Topic: giant squid mics

[gkatz]

I'm new to recording and was wondering if anybody had anything to say about these mics? specifically the powered omni mics they have, and also the mono omni mic they have.
Should I save alittle more and get Church stuff?

[su6oxone]

Should I save alittle more and get Church stuff?

Never used Giant Squid mics but I've only heard bad things about them.  Saving to get some Church mics (or other similar mics) might be a good idea.

[twatts (pants are so over-rated...)]

I bought a pair of Squids a few years ago.  They sucked.  Save up for the Church stuff...

Terry

[darktrain]

total crap, had some, not good

[setboy]

they have a cool name, and that's about it

[acidjack]

Garbage. Virtually anything is better. It's a bad sign when your "samples" on your own homepage have significant distortion.

[rastasean]

adding to the list...
I thought they were perfect until I realized and compared them to other mics. Spend a little more and get CA14 Omni's or just get a good recorder and patch.

[fmaderjr]

Church Audio mics are extremely reasonable when you factor in how good they are. Squiddly Diddly mics wouldn't be worth using if you got them for free.

There is a reason why Chris Church posts here regularly and Darren Nemeth (Giant Squid) doesn't dare to. He'd be torn a new a**hole if he showed his face here.   

[skelly14120]

before i started comming here i used them,theyre very cheaply made and will probably break on you within the first week or two ECHO DONT BUY EM

[tardis71]

Just wondering...I thought GS mics were pretty much copied exactly from Core Sound mics...is this true? I thought he used the same capsules and did the same mods. I know CS isn't loved around here either...but just wondering if the same is felt about CS mics? or are the GS mics not exactly the same?

+1 on the Church mics...I'm about to finally give my new CA-14s a good testing at a show this weekend...just been using them for my own band rehearsals...and they sound great.
I also have the Chruch Audix cable and will be hopefully buying some Audix 1200 caps to use with them soon....

[fmaderjr]

Coresound makes good mics, but bad customer service in many cases and much more bang for the buck with Church Audio. The Coresound High End Binauals are good of course, but they are just modified DPA 4060's or 4061's. I'd rather get them without going through Coresound.

[darktrain]

Coresound makes good mics, but bad customer service in many cases and much more bang for the buck with Church Audio. The Coresound High End Binauals are good of course, but they are just modified DPA 4060's or 4061's. I'd rather get them without going through Coresound.

The CS low cost binaurels may be like the squids, they blow as well, the regular CS aren't bad and the DPA's they do are a rip off, lots of people have had them "go down", you would be much better off just buying straight from dpa or buying on ebay

[run_run_run]

The omnis you can make yourself

[gkatz]

thanks guys, ill save

[fandelive]

A good start would also be to listen to samples recordings made with the mics in concert situations : http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=giant%20squid%20AND%20collection%3Aetree

The Giant Squid cardioids were my first mics. I never used them in concert situation, because after a few tests I did in front of my home stereo, they ended up to sound as crap as a cheap pair of walkman earphones plugged into mic-in !!!

I sent them back to Darren and he was kind enough to send me a pair of omnis in return (postage free).

I only recorded one concert using the omnis and must admit I was pretty pleased with the results (in regard of their cost).

Then I upgraded my rig to better (but more expensive) mics.