Please vote for your favourite cello recording here: Please vote for your favourite male voice recording here: What is your favourite Male Voice Over recording? I also recorded my AKG 414 B-ULS (in cardioid) as a reference (my standard in-house microphone here at Mikerophonics), as it is a very well known sound to many. [T]he Neumann [TLM102] excelled on close-miked electric guitar amp, yielding an exemplary in-your-face sound. Once voted make sure you submit your email address for a chance of winning 1 of 3 sets of Sennheiser 280 Pro Headphones. The TLM 102 received a TEC award in 2010. So…read part 1 of the full review below, listen to the sound clips and be sure to vote for your favourite! When it comes to handling and ease of placement, Neumann TLM 102 has the better edge here than Rode NTK. Unfortunately, the TLM 102 doesn’t offer it, but a highpass filter should be considered mandatory, either at the preamp or in the DAW. Neumann TLM 102 is available in two finish options, which are matte black and nickel. Lets go through the range of microphones I tested. It’s available in either satin black finish (for the slightly aesthetically challenged) or classic nickel (for the discerning studio cognoscenti), and comes in a wooden box with a solid stand mount. Why risk? In his spare time, when not thrashing gear to within an inch of its life, he takes therapy for his poor jazz guitar playing and his addiction to skiing & Nikon lenses. The most recent addition to this line, and the most affordable Neumann studio vocal mic yet, is the TLM102 reviewed here. On first sight, the mic’s diminutive size is surprising. It uses a transformer-less circuit and again, along with its smaller TLM 102 brother, to reduce cost, it has no pad or filter switches available. Microphone distances were kept very constant. The presence peak is wider and flatter, but slightly more elevated than the TLM 102. It’s a single large diaphragm, transformer less, cardioid fixed pattern, pressure gradient transducer (that’s a mouth full). Sensitivity at 1kHz into 1kohm is 20/28/22 mV/Pa for Omni/Cardioid/Figure of Eight – very healthy indeed. In your hand, like all the Neumann microphones, it feels the epitome of quality engineering and craftsmanship. The TLM 102 received a TEC award in 2010. A recording pass was made for each microphone. It’s built in Hanover, Germany, in Neumann’s ultra clean modern facility, alongside its more expensive siblings; therefore there’s no far eastern birth certificate to reduce manufacturing costs for this microphone, it’s still most very reassuringly Neumann! Here at ESV we’ve once again enlisted Mike Aiton to conduct an independent review; this time its the turn of a selection of Neumann microphones. To make this a fun test and to find out what the readers think, I have made this a blind test, with five microphone recordings to listen for in each category. The Neumann TLM 102 is also known as: TLM102. ‘The Family’ of German Studio Microphones – Part One. The M930 beats the TLM 102 in its self-noise rating (6 dBA vs. 12dBA) and sensitivity (23 mV/Pa vs. 11 mV/Pa), albeit at a street price that is 70% higher. Please listen on your best headphones or on as good monitoring as you can to be able to give your opinion. Simultaneous recoding was not necessary, as I wanted relative ‘comparative recordings’, not absolute. It’s also available in both satin and matt black finishes. The original U87 was built so long as it housed a battery compartment to compensate for situations where 48v phantom power wasn’t available. The TLM 102 is based on a new edge terminated diaphragm design and, as part of its “no-frills” simplistic design brief; it has no pad or filter switches available. 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It does look professional, and it feels rugged and durable. Neumann also claim the grill mesh is acoustically optimised to reduce pop sounds. We note some obvious similarities with the Gefell M930, which is also a high-SPL, transformerless, FET condenser with a shockmounted large-diaphragm cardioid capsule in a small (and similarly-shaped) case. Compared to the sibling, Neumann TLM 102 is smaller and lighter. The mic’s uncolored response and presence boost at 6kHz makes it suitable for broadcast use as well. In fact, the frequency-response graphs of the two mics are nearly identical. In the fourth of our USB Audio Interface reviews, Phil take us through the Apogee Duet 2. (Using a shock-mount alleviated this issue.) Aimed at where the neck meets the body on a Martin D-15, the TLM 102 sounded gorgeous, providing a full, natural sound with a present top end that was not hyped or etched. So many questions…. Self noise is 15/12/14 dB-A for Omni/Cardioid/Figure of Eight, not quite as good as its more modern designed brethren. No obvious physical flaws here then. What has the Neumann brand learned since being in business since 1928? The TLM 102 [is] sensitive to wind or structure-borne noise… [T]he mic easily picked up foot-tapping sounds through the mic stand. It’s a bit like if you mated a Neumann with an ipod, ‘mechanical class meets engineering innovation’? The Babyface Pro... Get all latest content delivered straight to your inbox. Listening can be done here for the Cello recording on soundcloud: Listening can be done here for the Male Voice Over recording on soundcloud: or you can download the Pro Tools session and listen to the 24bit 48KHz original recordings here. The ear has a tendency to prefer louder sources, so loudness matching was essential to enable a level playing field. So this microphone would seem to be the flexible but affordable “Swiss Army knife” of the range: capable of recording any loud instruments, optimised for clear and sibilance free speech and flat enough for orchestral duties, with the ability to record down to a double bass low E and filter out rumble below that.
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