Had to use up some credit at GC and the 57 needed replacing so I got a Sennheiser e609. Great live guitar mic. Seems to give me much better definition in the mix than the 57 did, a bit more detailed sound. When I brought up this mic before, a few of you guys told me not to dangle I over the amp but use a stand. I ended up dangling it (always gotta do the most convenient thing) and it worked out nicely. The handle on my Vetta is positioned exactly right for getting the mic right where I want it, and is tight enough that I could give it a slight angle both to help it reject frequencies from the other side of the stage and the get my favorite angle on the cone.
Best $117 (with tax) that I have spent on my rig in a long time.
I still want to try one of these. I hope someone brings one to Bowling Green this year so that I can compare it to the AKG D330 and a few of my condensers.
yes, dynamic, super-cardioid
Yeah it is meant for basically anything you would use a 57 on, but designed with guitar cabs in mind. Flat so you can dangle it. I had considered using a condenser on stage briefly, but did not because of all the ambient crap it would pick up. I am quite happy with the e609. Some reviews said it lacked the low end thump of a 57. Well, my experience with a 57 is that it never had all that impressive low end thump anyhow, so I never noticed anything lacking this weekend with this mic. It does have smoother high mid, and clearer articulation of the highs, so I like it.
All weekend my sound was being raved about by band and audience folk alike, but I can't really give the mic all he credit, I spent a good amount of time editing Vetta patches last week, and I go the Schecter with EMG's, for high gain nothing touches them, espeically in terms of clarity and punch. So, all those factors together made it a fun weekend. We were supposed to be off, but a venue we have wanting to entrench ourselves as regulars in called with a last minute cancellation and was willing to pay our full price (previously they had cheaped out on us by $200). Was great, the day I bought the mic, finished editing the amp, and bought the Schecter, I get a call to be at the place to play. Those two gigs financed the JC-120, which as soon as hit hit send on this I am going to post some thoughts and impressions on.
I have had an E609 for a few years - it is a really good mic.
And I hang it over the grill mostly, works fine that way and you can angle it easily enough using the handle to provide a bit of tension on the cable,it is really light.
It is sort of a no brainer mic, position wise it will give a decent sound on the grill where ever you put it,
which makes it good for live, live jam/recording sessions.
I did a live jam/recording session about 18months ago with a KB player, where we were running everything through a soundcard through Adam monitors
And playing pretty loud.
Bled some of the e609 into mix and had the fx loop out going into an XT into the soundcard as well to bleed that into the mix.
Could record those two streams.
No real attention to positioning - just draped it and left it at that for a two day session - we were just jamming for ideas.
Recordings lose the live effect in the room when it was all mixed up with the sound straight from the amp (running pretty loud), in the room it all sounded pretty wild.
Attached one of the jams, off the cuff jamming, live, hit record, one take bam bam move on, we ended up with hours of this sort of shit recorded in 2 days.
This is one of the more guitar dominated moments though.
Sound is mostly the e609 on guitar with a bit of the XT FX stream to add space as it was in the original sound when playing
Never checked anything, just wanted a record of a jam,
With a "studio head" on and positioning attention it could obviously sound a LOT better than this.
That's why I think it is a "no brainer" mic - you would have to go some to completely fuck up using it.
If you can't be bothered with the crap - just drap it over the grill off centre and forget about it.