CAD GXL3000

I have been making recordings in front of or behind the console for 21 years. I record with a DAW, pro tools le to be exact. when reviewing this mic I ran it through a FMR Audio RNP and RNC into an RME ADI-2 then into pro tools. I have a pair of Rockit 5's for monitors.

GXL3000 is a large-diaphragm condenser and comes with two diaphragms and will produce three patterns (omni, figure-8, cardioid). A ???10dB pad and a low-end roll-off is switchable on the microphone and it comes with a suspension-type shockmount. I recorded acoustic guitar (about 5" off the neck at the 12th fret slightly pointed toward the hole), vocals and percussion (shaker and tamborine) in cardiod. The shaker and acoustic sounded very clean and without any color. I liked the detail and the way it made the slightly boomy Taylor guitar sound even yet full. With the vocals I was less happy. There was an annoying bump in the high end and it took a lot more eq to sound right than my other mics do, such as the blue baby bottle.

For what I paid for this mic I believe it was a great value. I'm not sure that one could say the same at $200.00. It does not compare to any mic in the $500 and up range, but if you can find it used or get it on sale I would recomend it.

I play guitar since 12 years old.
I've recorded when i had a band in Belgium during the 90's, named SCANDALE. Last year i did some solos on key's player JEAN FRAN??OIS MOULIN released by MUSEA RECORDS. I record at home my own composition ( check it out at www.soundclick.com/robertplas )
I record digital in my computer using SONAR 6
I have a little Behringer board, MArshall & Rivera amps, Yamama customized & Steinberger GL4T guitars, a cheap chinese acoustic electric and an old Di Giogio nylon string acoustic.

It's a condenser, GLX 3000 CAD mic
I usually fool around with placement, play for a while and find a spot a like. I don't use mic's pre's other then the onboard.
I choose this one 'cause i needed a condenser to capture my acoutic guitar, and it does the job! I choose the GLX 3000 'cause it has many caracteristics and the people at the store recomended it.
Ht emic is really nice, i don't have a perfect environment to record ( i capture my computer's fan noise, i don't have a booth ), but it dosen't make a lot of diference if you don't play something real quiet.
I'm using that mic for eveything now: voice, acoustic guitar, the rest i do with SONAR. And the result is pretty impressive.

Making music for 15 years, recording for the last 5. My personal experience in recording is strictly amateur, but I?ve been in enough professional studios as a musician. Primary recording equipment is Cubase via a Tascam D/A interface, monitoring mainly with headphones, either Sennheiser or ADKs.

Condenser mic with selectable patterns (cardiod, figure-8, omnidirectional). Also has -10dB pad. Purchased it mainly for use on vocals, I?ve also used it for acoustic and electric guitar, and drum overheads. I chose this over the Marshal mics mainly because I had read a few negative reviews for the Marshals. If I could afford it, I probably would have gone for a Rode NT1, and I probably still will at a later date.

Firstly the good points: it has the clarity and presence you would expect from a condenser. It also seems to be built to a reasonably high quality, so hopefully it will last. The variable pickup patterns can be fun to play with too.

I wouldn?t call the sound ?warm? but neither is it cold. I find it does however have ?brittle? quality to the high end, around 2.5kHz, like there was an EQ boost dialled in there. It reminds me of the sound of a PZM mic. This may be more of a problem for me working in digital than some one else working in analog. Running it through my ART tube pre-amp certainly gives it more life, and it?s easier to cut back the extra high end than it is to boost something that isn?t there in the first place.

If it were lost I would probably upgrade to a Rode or AKG, but if Iupgrade in the future, I would still keep it. For home recording I would prefer it to a dynamic mic like an SM58.