KVR Audio

pough · Post by **pough** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 4:56 pm

My mic is being shipped out today and I'm shipping out to Japan in a month. Maybe I should keep you posted on both the Chinese mic and the Japanese kittens...

Majken · Post by **Majken** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 4:57 pm

Hmm, nice mic, could be fun. This strikes me as slightly amusing though:

http://www.mts.net/~kellyd/

That's an odd host for a company. Bet it's cheap though

- Cleaning up the links to point at www.kelaudio.com/"whatever".htm would probably look slightly more professional though

/Majken

pough · Post by **pough** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:02 pm

I agree. Looks like a quick fix thing. But since the site was made with CorelDRAW, what can you expect? When your mic costs just $69 (including shipping) you have to cut corners somewhere!

pough · Post by **pough** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:40 pm

groundless wrote:you should at least get a free mic out of that

TBH, I prefer just to do things without getting a reward. I'm also helping out my friend who makes the most amazing ukuleles (and is starting to make acoustic guitars) with his website. I just want to see him succeed. I'm a terrible, terrible businessman.

BTW, the Mozilla/Firefox problem seems to just be a misplaced semicolon in the style...

maximilians1 · Post by **maximilians1** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 12:35 am

How does this mic stack up to this one http://www.audio-technica.com/prodpro/p ... T3035.html the AT3035, I know the audio technica one is more than double the price but on paper is there anyway to determine if one is superior to the other. I don't know how to interperet the technical specs.

danielmm · Post by **danielmm** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 1:02 am

you know this mic doesn't sound bad..(from the samples)

69 bucks will buy a lot of beer though, eh.

dano

GW · Post by GW » Fri Oct 15, 2004 2:49 am

I saw this and it does look interesting. Should a person be concerned over the frequency response curve they post? I'm not an expert on this whole vintage thing, but I thought flat was good?

pough · Post by **pough** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 6:59 am

GW wrote:Should a person be concerned over the frequency response curve they post? I'm not an expert on this whole vintage thing, but I thought flat was good?

Good questions. I was a little alarmed at first, too, but I noticed two things. One is that the image they posted is very, very fuzzy. The other is that only one of the four lines is totally relevent and it's the flattest one.

The top blue line is graphed when the sound is being emitted at a 0 degree angle to the center of the mic. The other lines are recorded at angles, where the mic won't be picking up the sounds very well, anyways. Actually, maybe that dip is the reason that they say "the HM-1 picks up less “room sound” than some mics."

I also decided to sharpen up the image a little.

Hypertone · Post by **Hypertone** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 7:24 am

Man $69 is cheap.

They need more demos though. The voice demo is not really a good indicator of the sound, they need a singer. The electric guitar is also not accurate, because they compare one (SM57?)dynamic mic, to a pair of the condensers, and I have to say that I like the dynamic's sound better (at least on these pc speakers). The acoustic guitar sounds ok, but I would like to hear some more intricate dynamic playing.

From what I hear (on these crappy pc speakers) it sounds like the mic lacks lower midrange (which can be good or bad). However, for the price does it really matter? Surely alot of people could find a good use for it.

Steven West · Post by **Steven West** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 7:25 pm

The graph looks '1950's sound' to me Pough? I'm tempted, I'm damn friggin' tempted!

If it wasn't for all these SM57's and Beta58's I've acquired and never use....

clueless · Post by **clueless** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 7:27 pm

Steven West wrote:The graph looks '1950's sound' to me Pough? I'm tempted, I'm damn friggin' tempted!

If it wasn't for all these SM57's and Beta58's I've acquired and never use....

can I have them?

pough · Post by **pough** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 7:30 pm

Steven West wrote:The graph looks '1950's sound' to me Pough?

Why are you asking me? I have no idea how it looks to you!

The mic shipped out to me last night. I have been tracking it and Canada Post is certainly giving me my money's worth on the "storage fee" they like to charge. Maybe at the end of next week it will arrive here and I can run my guitar and someone else's voice through it to give it a proper testing. None of this "guy speaking into it" business!

Steven West · Post by **Steven West** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 2:20 am

Sorry Pough, should've been a '.' there instead of a '?' - Damn SHIFT key?

And NO Clueless, I think I'm going to keep them a bit longer.

Good luck Pough, keep us posted. And don't let Canada Post rape you either. (Storage Fees?

)

dreibel · Post by **dreibel** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 2:40 am

Long & McQuades (a chain of music stores based in Canada) now also sells a brand called Apex, which last summer introduced a budget condenser mike called the 435. I got mine for $69.95 CDN, though I haven't had a chance to actually use it until now (well, maybe this weekend, I'm planning on actually singing on my newest track).

You can read about it here:

http://www.apexelectronics.com/

Steven West · Post by **Steven West** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 3:09 am

Oh no, not Apex!

I just bought a couple of headphones of theirs at L&M's Clearance Sale - Nasty cheap cans.

Fine if you're just referencing while recording something - but mastering, forget it!

But for $10 a pair, I'm just glad I didn't spend more on them.

Canada gets its own budget condenser mic!