One more thing, I was gonna try to return the cable and pop filter because it's already bundled with the NTA-1 which I'm gonna swap out to get, and the sales guy said that those things are always good to have and that I should just keep the ones I have, on top of getting the bundle. Is it really that important to have an extra cable and pop filter lying around?

I think the NT1A sounds different than any of the Perception line. Of course most AKG mics whether the high end or the more modest Perception line have a different aural ascetic than any of the Rodes offerings. In the end, only you will know whether you like one over the other.

Yeah that is true. But you answered my question which I appreciate, and that was that the mics definitely will pick up my voice differently. I know that I was shocked when I first tried recording on my Perception 220 because I really didn't like how my voice sounded. Whereas RIGHT when I recorded with the NTA-1 I actually enjoyed it.

I'm with Jack in that, all other things being equal, I would normally prefer the NT1-A over anything in the Perception range, but testing mics with your own voice may well give a different result.

One clue here is that you recorded your voice using the NT1-A in a different environment and presumably using a different pre-amp to when you recorded with the Perception mic at your place. Changing the recording acoustic can often make more difference than changing between a pair of similarly-priced mics, and it could be that the NT1-A would not capture your voice in a way that you like when recorded at your place and with your gear.

Can you borrow the NT1-A from your friend to try at your place?

Wow, I wrote out a response and it didn't go through...

Pretty much I can't borrow my friend's because I moved to a different state.

The other thing I said (I don't feel like typing everything again) was that we have the same set up (once I get the NT1-A it will be the EXACT same setup) and I was wondering if the environment would really change how I sound THAT much?

I've setup a ghetto makeshift "soundproof" thing where I stack totes chest high and then put sofa cushions up as a three wall thing with a blanket over the top. Before I could hear my voice bouncing off the walls when I'd record. Now that problem is sovled :)

Those two mic's just don't sound alike at all. That's the short answer.

Lol thank you!

That is essentially all I was asking (just not in a short way because I didn't know how much details to give).

I appreciate you're answer. This is pretty much solved then.

I don't need details. If you said your VW Beetle handled differently than a Ford Fusion no one would argue. They are both cars but not the same.

If some mo-ron sales clerk at guitar center wants to blow smoke people don't make the same conclusion. Every mic sounds different than any other type of mic. AKG451 is not the same as Neumann KM184. Heck, the Km184 isn't the same as the KM84 that preceded it. There is no way on gods earth that the cheap end of AKG is going to sound like Rode.

I had been more subtle before in my answer apparently.

Yeah, my P220 is being sent back and the NT1-A will be sent to me not this coming Sunday, but the one after that (it's out of stock til then) and I already have a feeling the sound difference will be so obvious to me. My wife doesn't think my vocals sound THAT different right now on the P220 than my first song I recorded on the NT1-A but I know there's a pretty big difference. So I appreciate the reassurance here lol.

Got both NT1A