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> HI Folks,as I'm
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\n> Sorry for offtopic, and maybe you can recommend a better forum, but
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> writing and reading in this group since aone year now and as Iknow, there
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> are a lot of pro's around, I have a little question to you and yourC414 TLII
\n> experience: A store in Vienna, where I live, has a couple of AKGs
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> on stock. They say, they are not being produced anymore but amongthe best
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> editions of the 414. The capsule was constructed and tuned to soundlike the
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> C12. I know, it's a matter of taste, there are many mikes, whichare cheaper
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> (rhode... audio technica...) but I can get this for a good price(around 800
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> incl. VAT), so generally spoken, would anyone of you say that the414 is a
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> good, neutral, high quality all purpose mic to sometimes record avoice, a
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> guitar or a piano in a high-q homerecording environment? I'm a promusician,
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> pianist and arranger, working at home on a Windows XP PC, 1 GB RAM,Logic
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> 5.5.1, RME 9363 card, 01v96 mixer.was
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\n> Thanks a lot,
\n> Flo
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\n> PS: Still annoying in Studio Manager 2: Slow redraw. Once a channel
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> Soloed, the ON buttons of active channels remain grey, the windowstructure
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> is stupid - can't move any editor windows out of the main window...