Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Boy, Did Chrispy Ever Steer Me Right

Seems his view of the Studio Projects C1 is shared by many.

I'm afraid I only have limited experience with it because I am still waiting on Digidesign to come out with a dual binary version of ProTools. Once that comes out, I am ready to roll.

I'm also starting to feel new songs percolate, so I also want ProTools around to make demos on my Mac.

7 comments:

Chrispy said...

Dave, would I ever steer you wrong?

Dave Cavalier said...

You did try to get me to buy Enron stock in 2000.

Chrispy said...

I thought we'd agreed not to discuss that...

Tony Alva said...

Freakin' mics are so good I'm waiting for the rest of the world to figure out how good a deal they really are at $200 bucks and inspire a huge price increase.

Dfactor said...

It reads:
>>>No pad or rolloff is provided, but the mic can handle SPLs up to 131 dB without overload.


Is micing a loud electric guitar gonna ruin the fucker? Or is that OK?

Chrispy said...

DFactor,

The mic's been updated; the version currently shipping has a 10 dB pad and a bass roll off.

This is a sensitive mic, so you will distort the inpute to your preamp (at least) if it's placed in front of a blasting amp without the pad (you may need to pad the mic input as well depending on how loud the amp is). It's entirely possible the mic will distort even with the pad, but I've not had it happen.

There is no reason the mic should break regardless of the SPL.

And remember - dB SPL is a VERY tricky thing to define. As always, use your ears.

Dfactor said...

I got the C1 mic the other day, tried hooking it up today, and now find out I need a preamp like this:
http://www.zzounds.com/prodsearch?form=prodsearch&q=art+tube+mp

...or 48V phantom power supply! Aarrgh. Looks like sensitive acoustic recording will have to wait a bit. Unless one of you has a spare preamp laying around that has 48V phantom power with it???