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I'll echo Steve Boyke's experience in regards to this, right down to the
point where the Schoeps beats the Gefells (the latter of which are mine, the
former of which are his). Mind you, I think this is probably because we're
doing very different types of music: he does solo acoustic guitar, and I am
doing acoustic-based contemporary folk. If I were doing DiGrassi-type music
as he does, I would prefer the Schoeps as well. Keep in mind that either
the Schoeps or the Gefells are going to cost you a lot more than the
Josephsons unless you find them used...good luck with that. I took a chance
on a pair of used Gefells and I got lucky.
One caveat: Steve and I both tried the *exact same pair* of Josephsons. I
understand that their QC is excellent, so I doubt this, but it is possible
that we had a suboptimal pair. Another thing is that Josephson is US-based,
so service will be relatively easy to come by should it be necessary.
Another caveat: Scott Dorsey really likes the Josephsons for the price, and
his is an opinion worth listening to (in my opinion).
George Reiswig
Song of the River Music
"Stephen Boyke" <sdelsolray@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:BD3C4966.49A5%sdelsolray@comcast.net...
> On 8/7/04 9:19 PM, in article
> 926463d.0408072019.14ac4c2a@posting.google.com, "Bill Wilson"
> <billybobthewilson@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have an opinion on a matched pair of Josephson C42 mics
> > for recording steel string acoustic guitars? Thanks.
> >
> > Bill
>
> For solo fingerstyle playing, I compared the c42s with Neumamn KM184s and
> Schoeps CMC6/MK4, and later I tested a pair of Microtech Gefell M294s too.
> Used a Pendulum MDP-1A pre, 18x12x8 room. For my uses, I rate these mics
as
> follows:
>
> 1. Schoeps
> 2. Microtech Gefell
> 3. Neumann
> 4. Josephson
>
> For my uses, I didn't care much for the C42s, at least compared with the
> others.
>
> --
> Stephen Boyke
>
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