On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 14:58:07 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:

I should add: What's irritating me is that my instincts were to keep
that mic* and have a fiddle with it to see if I could have made summat
of it. It would have been a good *hands on* learning opportunity (the
way I like it) and it wasn't a whole lot of money for a fair amount of
quite good-looking, *possibly fixable* kit, even if it had needed the
innards radically changed!

(Too late now, but I reckon a check for dry joints in the PS and to swap
the valve in the mic might have put me on the right road...??)


Well, I got curious and ordered one too. Mine works OK. Not
necessarily any better than a £50 Samson. But it's quiet, and it's
fun playing with the 3 pickup patterns. The tube seems completely
irrelevent. On cardiod setting, it sounds almost exactly the same as
my Rode NT1. My test recordings unfortunately are dominated by the
noisy key-action of my old Bechstein upright piano. I find it very
hard to judge technicalities through poor source material, so I won't
ask you to! I've also played with it on a female voice. Quite an
interesting sound using in omni mode it next to the NT1, feeding R & L
channels (I'd hesitate to call this setup "stereo":-). But, again,
though the client's pleased with the result, she's actually so
out-of-tune that the material would get in the way of your judgement.
Let's wait for a better example to turn up.

Are these the same mics Thomann are selling under their The T.Bone
label?
http://www.thomann.de/gb/the_tbone_sct2000.htm



*Given that the Seller's real name didn't inspire me with confidence and
a 'the mic didn't arrive' response will *not* surprise me...

What, payam.kassiri? Do you know something about him, or is this
purely racism? :-)