If you keep the gain low and pick your mic position judiciously it can work. An unmodified mxl mic is very sibulant.

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Thanks for your reply John.

I read on another website that the MXL 606 uses the same back-electret capsule as some of the other budget microphones such as Behringer? Is this mic in the same category?

More or less. Cheap Chinese condenser.

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I would rather use a good dynamic mic myself.

most chineese mics are made in one of 3 different facilities. the stuff from 747 seems to be the best. none of them compare to quality built USA, German or Austrian mics. behringer sucks. howdy

On the Mannheim Steamroller tour they are right now using dynamic moving coil Heil PR30's for both the brass and the strings as well as the hoboe. Not a condenser on the entire stage.

TheJackAttack, post: 408588 wrote: On the Mannheim Steamroller tour they are right now using dynamic moving coil Heil PR30's for both the brass and the strings as well as the hoboe. Not a condenser on the entire stage.

they're playing here (Eugene) at the Hult Center soon. tempted to go ....

It's not high art or anything but it is way better Christmas music than most of the crap that you are going to be hearing in every store for the next six weeks. This year's tour has a six Mannheim musicians and nine locals. "Piano" player is using a Kurzweill in a shell and a synth. The "harpsichord" player has some electronic version of it as well. The bass player is one of the original members and has sever different basses and a real lute. The violin player is on an electric. The drummer has real drums on stage but I think they are triggered samples. The aux percussionist is also the main recorder player and plays about five sizes of recorders. All the local musicians are on Heil PR30 mic's and are 3 violins 2 violas 1 cello 1 hoboe 1 trumpet/picc trump/flugel and 1 horn.

And huge video screen behind the band going full time.

Many dynamics. No condensers. 5:10

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Oops. Harp and timp have condensers. Not chinese condensers.

here's a song of mine that slightly resembles something by Mannheim Steamroller

[MEDIA=soundcloud]user418315800/mckenzie-river-run

Nice.