Guest Anonymous Posted October 21, 2005 Share Posted October 21, 2005 Hey folks, received the AT2020 today, hopefully I'll get some clips this weekend. I'm excited to try it out, but too tired to show it Hope y'all are well. .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members geek_usa Posted October 21, 2005 Members Share Posted October 21, 2005 Originally posted by fallbackdown Hope y'all are well. .. I'm doing fine, thank ya very much! Congrats on the mic, I hope you love it! Oh and hey, nice kitty! What's its name? I have two and I love them to bits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted October 21, 2005 Share Posted October 21, 2005 Haha. . the cat is Loki, and very appropriately named! That pic was taken the day we brought her home. Now she's the epitome of evil. Unless we give her some catnip. We love her much, but she needs to lose the claws before we lose our new couches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Thelonius Posted October 21, 2005 Members Share Posted October 21, 2005 Best of luck with that! I'm loving my 4040. I wanted an AKG 414 but couldn't afford it at that point. Soon enough though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted October 21, 2005 Share Posted October 21, 2005 Good to hear on the 4040, Thelonius I was lookin' at those too, but opted for the less-finance-intense mic. haha. Should suit me just fine, can't be worse than what I've been using Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members geek_usa Posted October 25, 2005 Members Share Posted October 25, 2005 Originally posted by fallbackdown Good to hear on the 4040, Thelonius I was lookin' at those too, but opted for the less-finance-intense mic. haha. Should suit me just fine, can't be worse than what I've been using I'm in the market for a JCM800. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted October 25, 2005 Share Posted October 25, 2005 Originally posted by geek_usa I'm in the market for a JCM800. Aren't we all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted October 25, 2005 Share Posted October 25, 2005 Please do post those clips when you get a chance fallbackdown, and let us know what you think of your new mic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted October 25, 2005 Share Posted October 25, 2005 Originally posted by Phil O'Keefe Please do post those clips when you get a chance fallbackdown, and let us know what you think of your new mic. Hey Phil, will do. Had kinda a crazy weekend, didn't get a chance to lay anything down. But soon, I promise. I've got a possible project coming up, so I guess I'd better get on it, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Watershed Posted October 25, 2005 Members Share Posted October 25, 2005 Originally posted by Phil O'Keefe Aren't we all? Is there an official "Marshall Haters' Club"? I wanna be president! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members geek_usa Posted October 26, 2005 Members Share Posted October 26, 2005 Originally posted by Watershed Is there an official "Marshall Haters' Club"? I wanna be president! What don't you like about Marshalls, if I may ask? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted October 26, 2005 Share Posted October 26, 2005 Ok! Finally got some clips. My car died yesterday (my '05 Malibu), so I'm home from work today. The playing isn't really up to snuff, but it's a new little ditty that kinda sounds like if EVH and Angus Young had a lovechild. Not the tone, mind you, but the ditty. Anyway, here's the link The acoustic guitar is my Yamaha FG-365S, the Tele is my MIM Tele running into my Peavey Backstage 50. (I know you guys have gear envy) I mic'd the acoustic about 18" away from the 14th fret with the 2020, and about 8" away with the Nady SP9. For the electric, I tried to get the mics as close to the same spot facing the speaker as possible. 3" back from the dustcap, off-axis, parallel with the side of the cone. All recordings went thru my Behringer Eurorack UB1002 into the crappy built-in soundcard, into Tracktion. Just for some background. Now I KNOW you guys are envious of my rig thanks for checkin' it out. . .as a side note, these two mics complement each other really well to my ears, but for all I know, my ears could suck. heheh. tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Watershed Posted October 26, 2005 Members Share Posted October 26, 2005 Originally posted by geek_usa What don't you like about Marshalls, if I may ask? Well, hate is probably the wrong word lol. It's more that I'm totally sick of them. I've done a LOT of live PA work, and all through particularly the 80s and 90s, 19 out of 20 guitarists would front up with a Marshall. I just found myself craving a different sound. Each band sounded just like the last one because they had the same guitar sound. I was like... "come on guys, give me a different flavor!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Will Chen Posted October 31, 2005 Members Share Posted October 31, 2005 Just picked up the AT2041SP pack last weekend (AT2020 and AT2021 pencil). I must say I'm impressed with the 2020. Has much more detailed and smooth highs and clarity in the lows than the Samson CO3 I've been using. Great on vocals as well as acoustic guitar. I also tested it on a talking drum and a thumb piano and it captured both nicely. It's also a pretty forgiving mic as far as position is concerned, couldn't really get a bad sound out of it. The pencil I'm not quite as thrilled with. The highs seem a little sharp for lack of a better word. Mic positioning helped, but I need a little more time with it to experiment before I make any further comments. Together as a pair I got a wonderful stereo acoustic guitar sound. Also tried a setup with the 2020 positioned as a vocal mic and the 2021 as a guitar mic and got a very balanced voice and guitar mix. Overall, for $150 I feel these are a good deal for the budget home studio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members geek_usa Posted October 31, 2005 Members Share Posted October 31, 2005 Originally posted by Watershed Well, hate is probably the wrong word lol. It's more that I'm totally sick of them. I've done a LOT of live PA work, and all through particularly the 80s and 90s, 19 out of 20 guitarists would front up with a Marshall. I just found myself craving a different sound. Each band sounded just like the last one because they had the same guitar sound. I was like... "come on guys, give me a different flavor!" I just bought a valvestate combo. So shoot me. I couldn't afford the JCM800. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Timezarrow Posted October 31, 2005 Members Share Posted October 31, 2005 Originally posted by wbcsound Just picked up the AT2041SP pack last weekend (AT2020 and AT2021 pencil). I must say I'm impressed with the 2020. Has much more detailed and smooth highs and clarity in the lows than the Samson CO3 I've been using. Great on vocals as well as acoustic guitar. I also tested it on a talking drum and a thumb piano and it captured both nicely. It's also a pretty forgiving mic as far as position is concerned, couldn't really get a bad sound out of it. The pencil I'm not quite as thrilled with. The highs seem a little sharp for lack of a better word. Mic positioning helped, but I need a little more time with it to experiment before I make any further comments. Together as a pair I got a wonderful stereo acoustic guitar sound. Also tried a setup with the 2020 positioned as a vocal mic and the 2021 as a guitar mic and got a very balanced voice and guitar mix. Overall, for $150 I feel these are a good deal for the budget home studio. Wow! I just ordered the same thing on Saturday! I have fairly high hopes for the 2020, and figured for the extra fifty another little condenser would be handy, though I can't imagine it will be great. I've just been using dynamics with my old MD Data 4 track, but I acquired a Firepod recently, and I want to start building a reasonable mic cabinet. I'm just recording myself and my band, so I'm not going to go overboard, but I've heard good things about some of the AT's, and this is the ground floor. Glad to hear your initial reactions are favorable. BTW, there is a nice thread on SSS above (started by Bruce Swedien) on low-end condensers I used to read quite a bit about the Studio Projects B1, C1, etc. on HomeRecording.com, so I'm thinking about picking up one of those as well. I need to develop my ears before I venture into the higher reaches of mic moolah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted October 31, 2005 Share Posted October 31, 2005 I'm just recording myself and my band, so I'm not going to go overboard... Famous last words brother, famous last words. Next thing you know, you'll be asking about stuff in the midrange price class, then once you're really hooked, it will be onwards to the "hard stuff" - Brauners, Soundeluxes, Korbys, vintage AKG's and Neumann's, Telefunkens, etc. Then you'll find yourself saying "I can quit any time I want". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Timezarrow Posted November 1, 2005 Members Share Posted November 1, 2005 Originally posted by Phil O'Keefe I'm just recording myself and my band, so I'm not going to go overboard... Famous last words brother, famous last words. Next thing you know, you'll be asking about stuff in the midrange price class, then once you're really hooked, it will be onwards to the "hard stuff" - Brauners, Soundeluxes, Korbys, vintage AKG's and Neumann's, Telefunkens, etc. Then you'll find yourself saying "I can quit any time I want". Phil, you've got me pegged, alright! In the last few years I've become a real gearaholic, though mostly confined to the realm of live music, while putting most of my recording dollars into working in a small digital project studio where the rate allows me to do some experimentation without going immediately broke. But my new drummer is a home recordist as well, and thinks he can do a better job of mixing than I've been getting from the little studio (his recordings do sound pretty good, though I don't consider myself a real judge of that yet). So I'm going to give him a chance to make us sound good and hopefully learn some things in the process. That being the case, I imagine I will be stopping by this forum more often to lurk and refresh my memory and expand my knowledge base of recording principles and wisdom, as well as ask some silly n00by questions. I've been reading through the Bruce Swedien thread on SSS and catching up on your "Recording Great Sound In Small Spaces" task force project, though I'm still a month or six weeks behind right now. It should be a good resource for me, even though at the moment I don't have plans to design a dedicated space for recording (more famous last words, eh). At least it will give me some ideas about why the space I'm recording in sounds the way it does, and what might be done to improve it. Anyway, I should have said "I'm not going to go overboard . . . all the way . . . yet." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted November 1, 2005 Members Share Posted November 1, 2005 I was actually perfectly happy with the sound I was getting. "Nope, don't really need anything else!!" I would say. And then I've just gone and purchased a Neve Portico.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kevinnem Posted November 2, 2005 Members Share Posted November 2, 2005 I really like the sound of that on the acoustic.... I bet a stereo pair would be very usefull. It sounded a like some thing may have been over dirver on the electric GRT though. I still rate it high ther though, I think if you spent some time really working teh position of the mic you could get another 10% out of it on the cab. All and all I like it, thanks for the samples. I love my 3040 on GTR! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitwizz Posted November 4, 2005 Members Share Posted November 4, 2005 Originally posted by UstadKhanAli I was actually perfectly happy with the sound I was getting. "Nope, don't really need anything else!!" I would say.And then I've just gone and purchased a Neve Portico.... You know what I want to buy?!?! TIME, MAN!!!!!!! I would love to have more.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted November 5, 2005 Members Share Posted November 5, 2005 Originally posted by guitwizz You know what I want to buy?!?!TIME, MAN!!!!!!!I would love to have more.......... Now that would be very welcome!! I can't complain too much because I get to travel for two months out of the year. The rest of the time, I'm usually quite busy. Speaking of which, gotta do a recording session......for my Dad!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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