Product: Crown CM311A
Price Paid: US $70
Submitted
03/27/2004
at
11:00pm
by
krizpitty
Reviewer Background
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I've been making dirt cheap garage band recordings for around 20 years.
Overall Rating
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No Opinion
These Crown condenser mics are great, but highly priced. I have 2 of them.
If you're a smart guy though.....you go to Radio Shack and get their $70 Realistic podium condenser mic and remove it from the metal plate.....voila $300 Crown condenser mic for $70......Crown makes these for Realistic.
Great for overhead drum mic and other areas where condensers work well. Just mount it in a "blank" mic and you're set.
Product: Crown CM311A
Price Paid: US $199.00
Submitted
03/15/2004
at
09:12pm
by
Paul
Email: none
Reviewer Background
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I've been playing music now for 40 years. God, Guess I'm a dinosaur but it has given me plenty of time to own practically everything out there. I've been fortunate to have recorded in some very good studios in the Philadelphia area and currently use a Boss BR8 for ideas and Cakewalk Sonar to develope the ideas into something with meat to it. Primary listening equipment is Carvin headphones and nearfield monitors.
Overall Rating
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8
The Crown CM311A is a condenser microphone that uses it's own battery pack or phantom power. I have been using this headset for live work and it sounds just great. Very little proximity problems and gain before feedback is unbelievable. It worked so well in live enviornments I decided to use it to lay "dummy" vocals. I was surprised to find that it sounded as good asmby Studio Projects mic for vocals. As far as recording goes I don't recommend this as the mic you should use for your final tracks as you are bound to get some noise but for a headset to do so well surprised me greatly. As far as a live mic for an active musician, I don;t think it can be beat, especially for the price.
