Aug 07, 2003 09:26 am I've used their wireless stuff before and I can't complain.
sennhesier: bad company?
Posted on Aug 06, 2003 11:26 pm
fortymile
Member Since: Jan 18, 2003
this sennheiser mic i have (i think its a 350 or something) aparrently sucks. it seems to carry too much bass information to be good for vocals. yet i think it is marketed as being suitable for vocals. whenever i record i have to do EQ patchwork on vox. muffled, lumpy sound. my old radio shack mic was better than this.
anyone else hear anything bad about their mics? i found after i bought it, in the cobain journals (which i glanced through but didn't buy, stupid courtney) that kurt had once made an explicit note for the in utero sessions that sennheiser mics were to be avoided. but i mean it: i was happier with my radio shack mic and will probably return to it.
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Aug 07, 2003 09:26 am I've used their wireless stuff before and I can't complain.
Aug 07, 2003 11:06 am That's unusual, Sennheiser Mic's (well, the more expensive ones) are often very sought after objects. I don't know the 350 personally, does it require any form of phantom powering (or is it just a straight dyamic).
jues.
Aug 07, 2003 01:26 pm I have an evolution vocal mic by them and it's very similar to an SM58. I'm happy with it. I've had experience with their wireless lavalier mics and thought they were wonderful. Very clear. I've heard nothing but good about them.
Aug 07, 2003 04:49 pm it's an e835. i guess that stands for evolution.
no, no phantom power.
it is clear...quite transparent and no noise. but bassy. i could imagine it being potentially good for mic'ing a cabinet perhaps. i can imagine it producing a tight, punchy guitar, for instance, with all the right lower freqs, and some natuarally scooped mids. but vocals? those sharper freqs are just what you need to get the voice to cut through. at least, this is what my still-nascent frequency identification powers are telling me.
Aug 07, 2003 05:51 pm Well, there's always eq. Maybe that's why mine seems to work so well as a bass drum mic :-) It can be very hard to tell the difference between mics, as I'm still not good at it.
Aug 07, 2003 08:53 pm Maybe the e835 is catered towards female vocals - they often benefit from a bit of low boost...
jues.
Aug 07, 2003 10:43 pm Do you think you might have got a turd? I've only heard and heard (literally) good things from them. Have you tried to exchange it? I've never owned one, but your's sounds like it's messed up.
Or maybe, if you can take it back and see if the store will let you try it against another to see if that's the way they are.
Aug 07, 2003 10:54 pm boy, that'd be hysterical if i bought a 'girly mic.'
i dunno if it's messed up. it is a subtle thing i'm describing. just enough for me to wonder what all the hype is about. no matter.
Aug 08, 2003 11:09 pm Sorry I couldn't help more, but I do know what you mean about subtlities and how hard they are to explain.
For example, I can listen to something from my mike one day and the next day with almost identical settings and whatnot, it'll sound different. And it drives me crazy.
Nov 29, 2003 12:53 am ...I've been using Senn's for years, miking drums, guitars, cabs of all shapes and sizes, Haven't even the slightest complaint. I've used thier Kick Drum Mics for vocals before, Make sure you engage your low pass filter if your mixer has one, then drop out as much more of the low end that you can spare, compress the hell out of it, and you should have some luck. It worked fairly well for me, didn't have to do much to the high end at all. But all vocalists differ... Good luck.
Nov 29, 2003 09:29 am I've got an E 825 S and I love it on vocals... not too basy, pretty clean... Only senheiser mic I've tried though so I can't really say
Nov 29, 2003 09:45 am Yup, through the years Senheiser has held a respectable name. I've got a clip on Tom set and they are very nice.
Nov 29, 2003 11:24 pm im still convinced they're wack.
i'm sure theyre great for toms, though. all bassy and nice. boy, they sure are bass-prejudiced.
Nov 30, 2003 02:13 am I'll keep that in mind Forty; It's kinda odd, when it came to buying mics, I just skipped over Senheiser except for the tom kit. They've been around forever, but something just said "ho-hum" whenever I was shoping. I am starting to get a need now and then for some high spl dynamics, but I think I am going to invest in the old staple Shure 57 and 58. I would also like to try a matched set of small diaphram NT5's at some point and see how they stack against the Oktava 012's.
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