On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 21:16 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 25 January 2013 21:01:37 Bob van der Poel did opine: > Message additions Copyright Friday 25 January 2013 by Gene Heskett > > > Anyone used one of cheap ribbon mics I see on feabay for well under > > $100? Yeah, probably get what you pay for ... but I don't have 2 to 4 > > grand just to play with one. I'm doing some in-home recording of a > > tenor sax and I've heard that ribbons are really good for this. > > Comments appreciated. > > For a big buck, its worth the experiment Bob. One huge caveat though. > > Don't ever walk up to a ribbon mic & blow into it to see if its live. :D In this price range you should get a capacitor microphone. If you are rich get a large membrane microphone. I worked for a known company producing large membrane microphones and could recommend some very good microphones from business competitions, even if the vendor I worked for is better, the owner is a [snip], however those microphones are much more expensive. Since I don't have knowledge about cheap capacitor microphone, I can only repeat what somebody from the list recommended, when I asked for cheap microphones. The vendor is Rode, I can't remember the model, but it's around 100,-$/€ and should be better than a AKG 1000. I used the AKG and wasn't satisfied, since sound coming from an angle did sound like a recording with a supermarket microphone. Be careful with ribbon mics in general, but especially with all kinds of microphones that are much to cheap compared to known professional microphones of the same kind. There are a lot of ribbon mics under 100,-$/€. http://www.thomann.de/de/search_dir.html?sw=b%E4ndchenmikro&x=0&y=0&gk=&bn= I don't trust gear that should cost around >= 1000,-, but does cost <= 100,-. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
