Topic: New Toy anyone ever seen one of these??

[Church-Audio]

I just bought a new toy for my little project studio I dont know what its going to sound like but I thought I would show you guys.

TYPE: Tube (Valve), Large Diaphragm (1.07”) Dual Gold Sputtered Diaphragm True Condenser Microphones
POLAR PATTERN: Three patterns of Cardioid, Omni, and Figure 8, each has 3 selectable positions on the Power Supply Unit.
FREQUENCY RANGE: 20Hz to 20kHz;
SENSITIVITY: >12 mV/Pa(@1KHz, 74dB S.P.L);
Equivalent Noise Level: 16dB typical(A weighted);
OUTPUTIMPEDANCE: <200 ohms;
THD: <0.5%  at 130dB SPL @1000Hz;
POWER REQUIREMENT: Special Power Supply Unit;
AUDIO CONNECTION: 3-pin XLR.



STANDARD ITEMS SUPPLIED:

1 AMI FT56 microphones.
1 Special Power Supply Unit with 9 SWITCHES of THREE PATTERNS;
1 Shock Mount;
1 7-Pin Cable;
User Guide;
Warranty card;
1 Aluminum alloy flight box.


Features a 9 position polar pattern selector located on the custom power supply. This allows the user to switch among the standard omni-directional, cardioid, and figure-8, as well as their middle stages, providing superior control in any recording environment;
Uses a replaceable tube and large 1.07” gold sputtered diaphragm gives a fast transient and smooth response and high sensitivity;
The transformer design ensures extremely low self noise and longer cable driving capability.

APPLICATIONS
The FT56 is the superior choice for world’s top professional studios and one of the best vocal mics on today’s market. It delivers a superb vocal recording, with natural warmth and incredible detail. It is an incredibly powerful and versatile mic With graded steps between three patterns, Omni, Cardioid and Figure eight, the LT-56 finds uses in a huge number of applications, from micing a live drum kit, to overhead on a choir. Actually it is that microphone that meets most of strictest requirement in acoustic and vocal fields.

It looks pretty good I only paid $199.99!!! for it so I wanted to see what $200 bucks buys you if I dont like it I can always mod the living hell out of it. This is there web site http://www.ami-orient.com/home.html . I bought this from them directly on ebay. They have a dealer in Canada.

[Kindguy]

Like the way the gold Diaphragm jumps out at ya.

[Brian]

another chinese u47?

let us know what you think it's like stock.  then throw in a peluso capsule, cinemag output transformer, replace all the caps and resistors, and put in a different tube.



i love my modified apex 460 FWIW

[oleg]

they usially sounds not so bad , the problem each one of them usially sounds different
90% of these mics are based on geffel technology from the 70 s  so what make them not geffel is mostly
qoality control on the components
i picked up  a couple regullars ,not tubes for  less then 200 and can say they work not bad on some bariton voices and guitar amps , when you dont have enouth mics even these are a big save .

[Church-Audio]

another chinese u47?

let us know what you think it's like stock.  then throw in a peluso capsule, cinemag output transformer, replace all the caps and resistors, and put in a different tube.



i love my modified apex 460 FWIW

What blew me away was he wanted $269 for it and I offered $199 and he said no problem. I am amazed that someone can build something so cheap. I will have to see what its all about I have a real Neumann capsule here from a m50 mic I might toss that in but I am going to wait and see I dont really want to use this M50 Capsule. I love this stuff its like a box of chocolates you never know what one your going to get until it bites, I mean until you bite into it. I hope it does not bite. The frequency graphs look amazing provided no one had there finger on the plotter pen when it was printing it should sound pretty good.