oktava mics

[badperson]

Hi,

Looking for a place to buy oktava's, wasn't able to find them on sweetwater, musiciansfriend, or samash.

Did a search here on the duc and found sound-room.com. they have a bunch of oktava's, and some capsules in case you want to mod them yourself. Chris reccomended a few of their mics highly, especially the MKL101.

So my question is, should I read anything into the fact that the mainstream places no longer carry them? I'm pretty sure they used to right?

soundroom sounds cool, especially since I want to get into some diy stuff.

I did the search because I'm gearing up to do a trad Irish project, and I want a good stereo pair, I was thinking of the mc012's.

thoughts?

thanks!

bp

p.s., I was inspired to try some trad Irish by hanging out with my good high school buddy Hanz Araki.

The record was recorded by Garey Shelton in Seattle.

bp

[graveleye]

Hey Jason,
Guitar center runs specials on Octavas from time to time. Best to hold out for when they go on sale because you can really save a lot, or get two for one etc...

[Punch Drunk]

yeah.. i got two oktava mk219's from gc for 100 bucks

i came back a while later, and they were back up to 75 a peice

but, u can catch teh 219 and the 319 on sale sumtimes

[Third Eye Studios]

I would suggest calling Full Compass. The new ad I got from them in the mail has the price for the 3 capsule matched stereo set of mk012's for $394 list, followed by "call for price". Every time I've called them for a price it has been very good, and usually less than anybody else. The cardiod only matched stereo set is $256 list (w/"call for price"). I tried to find oktava mics on their website, and couldn't though.

[Bastiaan]

i think for theater-like stuff the Oktava's are pretty good. They have a very clean sound, and are fairly quiet.... I have used mine as mic's to record spoken word from a few yards distance (mic's had to be hidden...) and also a singer/songwriter style song on acoustic guitar and female vocals. Turned out quite nice...