18 Cheap Large Diaphragm Condenser Vocal Mic Test

[Justin1524]

Hey my DUC brethren - cheap, well a few aren't that cheap but most are. Would love to hear what you think including "dude, you should buy better mics and pres etc..."

YouTube Video:
https://youtu.be/6eBrISVFqGs

UPDATE SEPT-19 - here's a link to a zip file containing the clips: http://bit.ly/2fgLkOC (251 MB - 18 clips of dry unprocessed mono vocals and 18 clips of stereo w/ music and light processed vocals but NO EQ, 44.1, 24 bit WAVs) NOTE: To Download click down arrow in the upper-right corner

Rode K2 Tube Mic
Behringer C-1
MXL 880
M-Audio Nova
CAD GXL2400
MXL 550
Rode NT2000
MXL V63M
MXL 2006
MXL R80 Ribbon Mic
MXL V67
Samson C01
Sterling Audio ST51
MXL 3000
MXL 990s
MXL 2001
MXL V69 Tube Mic
Rode NTK Tube MIc

Recorded with Digidesign PRE into Digidesign 192 Analog to Digital clocked with Apogee Big Ben at 44.1 khz 24 bit into Pro Tools 12.8.1 HD 2010 Mac Pro with Digidesign Native HD card. Plugins used Waves Renaissance Vox, L2 and H-Reverb - no EQ. Clip-gain was used to raise +2 to +7 DB. Original song Always and Forever chorus copyright 2014, JTA Music.

[Drew Mazurek]

are you providing high res files to download, or are we supposed to judge on youtube audio quality?

[YYR123]

yeah youtube does kinda skew the data a bit.

My first mic was the MAudio Luna......it was a decent sounding mic for $30.

However I am currently in love with my Miktek CV4..... :)

[Justin1524]

Originally Posted by Drew Mazurek

are you providing high res files to download, or are we supposed to judge on youtube audio quality?

UPDATE SEPT-19 - here's a link to a zip file containing the clips: http://bit.ly/2fgLkOC (251 MB - 18 clips of dry unprocessed mono vocals and 18 clips of stereo w/ music and light processed vocals but NO EQ, 44.1, 24 bit WAVs) NOTE: To Download click down arrow in the upper-right corner


That's a great point! I'll bounce them out when I get home tonight and do 2 versions - one dry no music and one with music. I'll provide as individual 44.1, 24bit wav files for quick DAW import and comparison.