Double Bass Great studio mics for DB

[LaFaro01]

"The eagle has landed"... Yesterday the Sandhill arrived.... and first impressions are excellent..
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Looking for a "sweet spot" I changed positions and distances and found lots of very fine sounds..
First short summary after a short play around: The microphone sounds open and clear and yet with a certain warmth. It's as "fast" and dynamic as the Schoeps..., but it sounds a bit more "woody"... Positioning is more important and has a greater impact to sound compared to the Schoeps.. I have to test and checkout more, but it seems to be an real great mic for - at least my - acoustic instruments...

Some more experiences with the Sandhill mic and my basses (and acoustic guitars)…the Sandhill 6019A is becoming more and more my „favorite mic“…never checked out a mic, which worked so fine and uncomplicated when changing between arco and pizz… at the same time the mic is impressive clear and detailed…I‘m understanding more and more the „hype“ roundtable ribbon mics

 

[BassinCT]

Royer R121: around bridge height, about 40º off center, 18” away on the treble side, pointed toward the bridge. it didn’t hype anything and didn’t need any tweaking- very pleasing!

 

[Endlesssolo]

I have always liked AKG414s for lots of recording applications, I think they’re kind of a Swiss Army knife of LDC mics. A few people on this thread have posted that the C12 has the same capsule, and i don’t think that’s true. The very early 414s had the C12 capsule, it was known as the ‘brass’ capsule and highly thought of. All the newer generation 414s (including mine which are B-ULs, around 25 years old) use a different capsule. 414s old enough to have that ‘brass’ capsule were selling for $3000 or more the last time I checked which was at least 10 years ago.

Once you get into that level of microphone, there are so many other really important factors, like the room (most important) and the preamp, and of course placement. If you have a good player on a good instrument in a good room, any decent pro-level recording mic will sound good. I think new 414s are a good deal, they’re probably around $1000. They’re very versatile.

 

[neddyrow]

+1 for the U87

Used it on the last two albums we recorded in the studio.

 

[JBarz]

U87 or 414 all day long, yep.

 

[LaFaro01]

I have always liked AKG414s for lots of recording applications, I think they’re kind of a Swiss Army knife of LDC mics. A few people on this thread have posted that the C12 has the same capsule, and i don’t think that’s true. The very early 414s had the C12 capsule, it was known as the ‘brass’ capsule and highly thought of. All the newer generation 414s (including mine which are B-ULs, around 25 years old) use a different capsule. 414s old enough to have that ‘brass’ capsule were selling for $3000 or more the last time I checked which was at least 10 years ago.

Once you get into that level of microphone, there are so many other really important factors, like the room (most important) and the preamp, and of course placement. If you have a good player on a good instrument in a good room, any decent pro-level recording mic will sound good. I think new 414s are a good deal, they’re probably around $1000. They’re very versatile.

If you like the C414 so much and are looking for the sound of the "older ones", I would take a look to the Austrian Audio OC818