AKG C214
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Based on 6 Reviews
Better microphones out there!
I think for this price range, you'd be much better off going with a stereo Rode NT-4 as used by PPF or their VideoGo microphone for half the price. I would give it a lower rating, but Butch Vig used the 414, which is the same with more polar patterns on a lot of my favorite albums, so maybe I'm just not using it right. However, he might've modded his 414 with a better capsule, which is apparently something lots of top engineers do, because to me this microphone has a boring sound straight out of the box.
Amazing first mic.
I absolutely loved this thing when I still owned it. I find it a pretty versatile mic. Compared to my Lewitt LCT 640, I still love it nearly equally.
AMAZING
Best Mic for the money. Zero noise floor, super clean, durable. Buy it!
A creativity of your songs.
Once I start to making EDM, I found there're many EDM tracks have vocals. So I bought this for my track's vocal! it working stable with UR242, but I have the most important question after bought this microphone----It's really hard to find a good singer orz.....
edited about 1 year ago
I sold mine
Owned and used extensively for 6 months before I sold it. Phenomenal form factor (small, compact, solidly built). The shock-mount is plastic and is somewhat flimsy and downright cheap compared to other mic shock mounts for the same price...AKG shock mounts are very expensive to replace if damaged. But, you buy a mic for its sound. This mic is very 'hot' ---gets lound quickly--- good for home recording into an audio interface. I see it working well for pop and hip/hop . The Timbre (sound of the mic) was wonderful, and it would have been my all-time favorite mic, except for a huge frequency spike that these mics have around 12-13 KHz, which can make them unacceptably bright on some sources. This mic might work well for you, but (fyi) a lot of used ones always up for sale on ebay. Again, if it worked for me, I would have been in love with it.
that spike n the detail range is part of the 414's thing... like it or lump it.... when you change polar patterns it definitely changes that treble spike though.... The older 414s have less of a harshness in that range (fyi). The spike's there but it just sounds smoother. I dunno. I like the 80s ones you find in a lot of studios....
you may really like the audio technical 40 series if you ounf the 414 harsh on some sources. The AT 40s are similar in some ways though the multipatterns are all tranformerless which changes the sound a bit. I find the 40s to be a lot easier to place to get a balanced representation of a source.