The Gearslutz review gave it a really nice review and rating.

It's a $1500 mic apparently. Pretty costly. Unless there's specifically a reason to have such an expensive mic..... if your songwriting buddy has some really nice $1000 mic preamps and a high quality studio in a treated room......

I would suggest getting something like a Rode, or even a GaugeUSA mic. You can stick the rest the the $1000 savings into a preamp or a nice interface and still have money left to do a few other things.

Seriously, unless the rest of the gear and studio is of the same quality or higher, you/she, will not be able to hear the difference between that $1500 mic and one that costs $300. The fact that she's asking someone else tells me that she's not shopping with knowledge of what she's thinking about buying. She's looking at price thinking that this $1500 mic is 5 times as expensive as this $300 mic so it must be 5 times as good and it will really make me sound good...... uhhhhh no.... I mean NO!!!! it doesn't work that way.

People buy those really nice (expensive) mics because they have a certain characteristic sound that the average person in a home studio setting won't be able to use effectively. I've heard some really professional quality vocal work come out of some really cheap mics. One guy was using a mic he bought new for $60. It was a condenser and sounded amazing.

The Gauge mics I mentioned..... I actually had the opportunity to A/B them with mics that were $2000 to $3000 each...side by side.... good quality headphones and the Gauge mics.... in the $99 to $300 price range were indistinguishable in quality to the mics costing 10x as much. Seriously.

Unless your friend is wealthy and has the money to spend on such a mic, I would ask her to visit a few music stores and compare the mics they have. I think she'll be just as satisfied with a nice Rode NT-2A or similar.

Last edited by Guitarhacker; 01/25/18 04:37 AM.
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