In article , Dave Plowman (News)
scribeth thus
In article ,
Keith G wrote:
Maurice-A is the Neumann and the tubey pre; Maurice-B is the Samson. On
my setup the Samson sounds slightly tinny by comparison but the 'sax
player' has picked it as best a few times now which is why I posted the
comparison.

I don't know what a 'Samson' is. Another pre-amp?


No a manufacturer. Like a lot of others sometimes rip off a European
design and make a copy .. sometimes with dire results sometimes better.

http://www.samsontech.com/products/b....cfm?brandID=2

a few more here..

http://www.dv247.com/microphones/


What they won't usually have is the robust part of the original
product..


Are you wanting a comparison between mics or trying to make some point
about your marvellous valve pre-amp? If so it will be the cheap mic
through the valve pre-amp and the expensive mic through some nasty solid
state one. And whatever else you can do to persuade others that valves
have some magic properties...


--
Tony Sayer