Product: CAD Trion 6000
Price Paid: USD 300
Submitted
02/12/2008
at
06:35am
by
Ned
Reviewer Background
:
I've been recording for a couple of decades and have a good selection of new and vintage mic pres.
Overall Rating
:
1
What a truly bizarre microphone the Trion 6000 is. It has a huge hole where the lower mids are supposed to be. The mids are where the essence of the human voice should be - they are badly lacking in this mic.
The off-axis response of this mic is nasty, but the omni pickup pattern is absolutely terrible. Really, it sounds like it's still in figure-8 mode. Sources more than about 30 degrees off axis start to lose the highs until everything over a couple of hundred Hz is gone!
If you are old enough to remember the very first prototype mics to come out of China, you will get some idea of how this thing sounds... really, really bad.
Product: CAD Trion 6000
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted
09/16/2007
at
10:06pm
by
Bill Ruys
Email: bill dot ruys<at>siliconaudio dot co dot nz
Reviewer Background
:
I record mostly in my project studio to Sonar 6 via Motu 2408 Mk III and 24i/o interfaces. I record my own and other local bands. I have CAD, Audio Techinca, Shure, Rode, and other mics. Been doing this about 18 years.
Overall Rating
:
4
The Trion 6000 is a dual large diaphragm condenser mic with the typical 3 polar patterns (cardioid, figure-8, omni). The mic is of the lolly-pop design and has a transformer-balaned output stage. I purchased this mic on a bit of a whim as CAD seemed to have some big names talking up their new Trion range.
The first thing that struck me when auditioning the mic was it's high self-noise. The Trion 6000 is easily the noisiest mic I own and is very noisey by todays standards. The mic sounds a little scooped in the mids to me, with an edgey top end, not particularly accurate.
Testing in Omni mode, the mic has some serious high frequency nulls at the sides. I know all omnis will suffer this a little, but the Trion's nulls are particularly apparent. By comparison, my AT4050 is much more linear around the circumference.
In cardioid mode, the mic sounds a little similar to a Studio Projects C1, only thinner, and as mentioned before, with much more self noise.
To my ears, the Trion 6000 is a poor mans Studio Projects C1 (or C3 if you want multi patterns). I am very unlikely to keep this mic.
