I have a friend/ engineer who wants to try this on a symphony orch in a Decca Tree configuration. He is, I think, new to classical recording. I am not, but I have little experience with ribbons in classical situations as mains- mostly because I am such a fan of top end that I prefer condensor's sound over anything 'duller'.

I've got a pair of Royer R-121's on the way (to play with before I make the financial leap to a SF-1.) I've used Figure-8 (on a pair of Shure KSM44 LDC) in Blumlein, half a MS rig, and as a semi coincident pair.

I've got both choral and organ gigs this week where I can experiment a big (supplement the main rig.)

Hi Yall
So I Have this great invention in mind.
A phantom powered Buffer for ribbon mics such as the Nady RSM-2 or Oktava ml-52, beyer m130 etc.

Hello there,

I'd like to get information from people using those new ribbon mics.

I'm planning to buy a pair of ribbon.

- APEX 210
- SHINYBOX 23
- NADY RSM-2
- T.BONE RB500

Those appear to be the same microphone.

Anyone here has ever used one of them or has made comparison with others?

The singer in my band is a little hard to record.He has kind of a high voice (Robert Plant/Bon Scott,etc.)All my mics hate his voice (NTK,a couple of AT's,MXL's,etc.).They're all pretty bright,and they seem to over accentuate the treble content of his voice.

Hello everyone, I new, just bought a mbox2 to get my feet wet in recording. Down the road, I plan to buy a power mac and a Royer R-121 and u87. As for mic preamp's:

Has anyone tried the following pres: Brent Averill's 1073, Chandler LTD-1, ams-neve's 1073, Aurora gtq2 or the 5012 portico?

Its stupidly cheap and will likely live up to that standard. Its suppose to be a replica of a vintage model butwe know how that works. :)

Hi,

I've heard that ribbon mics are less prone to sibilance than, say, condensers. But is that just because they just have less top end?

If so, I guess this wouldn't solve a sibilance problem, because on boosting the high frequencies to get a desirable tone, wouldn't the sibilance return?

I just put them up, in a decadent multi-mic scheme, and ended up using as much of them or more than any other mic! Here are some clips.

Clip 1

Clip 2

Details and pictures of the setup.

I would be interested to hear from any/all on best choices for mic preamp for ribbon mics. I am particulary interested in recording acoustic stringed instruments, especially guitar, dobro and Weissenborn guitar.
Here is my current set-up:

AEA R84
Fireface 800
Cubase SX3
Record on Dell p.c.