Re: Do we still love the NT1a?

["Rob Danielson" danielson_audio]

At 11:50 PM +0300 9/9/09, Marinos Koutsomichalis wrote:
>  Well,
>
>it wouldn' t be fair to make a direct comparison as the Nt1-a is a
>really cheap microphone, and mainly a studio oriented one...
>So let me make clear that what I don' t like is not the Nt1-a as a
>microphone, but the Nt1-a as a microphone for natire and wildlife
>recordings...
>
>Anyway,
>First of all I don' t like large diaphragm microphones for nature
>recordings, as they tend to colour sound and they are not detailed
>enough in the high end,

I've not encountered this performance characteristic with the NT1-A
recordings I've made. For many of them I've been able to
simultaneously compare their high response to that of much more
expensive small diaphragm mics.  Rob D.



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