The Rode NT5 is priced well and affordable for a good mic. and bought a second! It will be in my mic locker for years to come. This mic sounds more like the $2000 - $2500 price range of microphones. Once they hear the sound (I do use a tube preamp) they are blown away. I now use it for most recordings and highly recommend it to my recording customers. After working with it, I found it to be very smooth and clean. I bought this based upon a friends recommendation to record some scratch tracks for upcoming demos. At 1/4 the price of a stereo pair of Neumann KM 184's it is definitely the best value for the price.Įxcellent Mic. They come with a great protective case and the mic clips are a very thick and sturdy plastic.īottom Line? These mics are incredible for home studios and a great back up pair for commercial use. These are tough little mics and claim to handle over 130 SPL, although I've never tested them at this level. Make sure the try these out before you buy them! This is not so much a con but something to consider These mics definitely have a small bit of coloration that some people love and others don't. This stereo pair also comes with windshields and mic clips - which I think are more sturdy than the ones that come with KM 184's. These mics have a wide and accurate frequency response and much like the KM184's, can be used all around the studio - from drum overheads, to acoustic guitar. We purchased these for our studio about 4 years ago for right around $450 for a stereo pair from Sweetwater. I currently play drums for the band Brookline and you can see me rockin' an Orange County Drum and Percussion or Mapex kit decked out with Zildjian K Hybrids. I've been a drummer and guitar player for the past 10 years of my life and have began engineering and producing in the past 4. I am a student, musician, writer, and pretty good line dancer residing in beautiful Nashville, TN. The Rode NT5 is a small diaphragm condenser mic. Soon I would put a video online to compare with and without DEADCAT on micro and the H4N at this address: Then you can also get a KM184 but a cigar use the Rycote + 1000 euros after the rain here weighs me. I regularly catch his perch in this configuration without having to pay attention to the wind, like a dead cat on the H4N and can shoot on the beach You must use the DEADCAT rode WS8 and there is just perfect. This microphone is excellent for outdoor outlets, BUT NOT WITH THE ORIGINAL Bonnette.Įffectively with the supplied windscreen is the blizzard, plus it's ugly!
On the other hand I write this review because I often see advice on outdoor use.
Mainly on overhead preamp Universal Audio 2-610 + Urei LA4 there is nothing wrong, cash here just good place to take no cymbals too perpendicular, there has a little bump to 4500 Hz but nothing bad in this type of use. It has been 5 years since I use Rode NT5 and I am very satisfied. Overhead, acoustic instruments and miking outside. Although cleaner than Oktava in the lower mid-bass The acute shortage of silky but at this price, it's really good. But I use them again but at a greater distance from the piano and torque AB where I get a very satisfactory result, with a more precise than Oktava. By comparison, I now understand the aggressive criticism in acute because these microphones. I gave them a time for Oktava MK-012 that are softer. I'm surprised some opinions Speaking of aggressive acute because it is a fault which I believe to be sensitive and I have not detected with these microphones, perhaps because I couple positions the ORTF 1m piano and not inside near the ropes as we did for jazz or rock piano? My impression confirms all the positive things I read on NT 5. I have asked myself this question when I had the AKG: now I know so because I can compare with Rode and the difference is very clear.
I wonder if for my use, I can still have a significantly higher sound quality. According to reviews I read on US sites, poor compliance with stamps acoustic instruments by AKG is due to a bump in the treble. Rode are cheaper: it was the pair for the price of one AKG, and I find them much more faithful to the tone of my piano. There is also a RODE NT45-C cardioid capsule that would be different from the original capsule, without raising the response in acute.Įdit July 2009: I wonder if this new cardio time capsule announced by Rode as an alternative to the previous capsule is not the one mounted automatically on aujjourd'hui NT5 and NT55 because the frequency response curve on the package leaflet of my purchased new NT5 early 2007 is no longer that displayed by Rode, which offers a cardio capsule.