Martin
632 posts
Mar 15, 2014
12:36 PM
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In my frustration that my Green Bullet -- that I´ve reluctantly had to start using again in the context of some blues recordings -- sounds more and more "disconnected" every time I bring it out (something´s loose inside) I started to look for alternatives. (The Beyer that I normally go to is a bit weak -- and a bit to clean.)
In a drawer found a couple of cassette player microphones from the 70´s.
Small things, extremely cheap looking. "Crap" I thought but put one of them into the Digitech RP and my my: it was pretty convincing -- as long as I was after dirtiness.
Many years ago, I then recollected, did I try one of them in an amplifier but of course it didn´t work: too low, feedback and what not.
Now I go through the RP and straight into the board and sound like Medium Walter on a Saturday night.
Is there some sort of general principle that explains this -- and why I shall not, say, start scouring the local Used Crap shops for cassette mics from the 70´s, in the hope that one of them might be a bit more usable in a live context?
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