MILAB mics... what do people think?

[mylesgm]

Interested to hear peoples experiences and comparisons in sound quality to other quality LDC...

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[jeffcripps]

I've got an old DC96 and i think it's a nice Mic, but hasn't got a lot of character, a bit, but not like my RCA 44 kinda thing, but i used it on a snare for a jazz session and it sounded absolutely wonderful.... it hasn't got as pad on it though, which would have been handy..

Jeff Cripps

[mylesgm]

What do you think they are worth? and where else would you use them?

[jeffcripps]

How much... HHmm.. i bought them before Rode Mic's came out and halved the price of most Mics..... they're not too cheap....2nd hand perhaps under a grand but more than $500

I'd use them on Horns, vocals .. haven't done much on it, but i will from now for a bit and try and get more familiar with it's sound, i tend not tuse it much but will now..

JEFF

[GlennS]

Hey Jeff, I used your DC96 on the recent jazz session I did in your studio also. I agree that it sounds wonderful & would go so far as to say it's the best mic I've heard on snare, except you can only rarely use it because it overloads too easily.

[audioio]

Interested to hear peoples experiences and comparisons in sound quality to other quality LDC...

Regrettably, I haven't tried their LDCs but I did pick up a pair of SDC commissioned for the original audio install at Parliament House. There was a chap in Canberra selling a few of these a couple of years back. They're tailored for that application, I suppose, but they sound pretty good.

I notice that there have been a few Milabs on ebay recently, from the US and the Australian distributor.

[wez]

yep you couldn't walk out the door without tripping over those parliament house mics for a while, there were a few of them around (still one or two in the swoppy i think)... obviously they were tailored for spoken voice, and have a pretty sharp LF rolloff. but hey they're swedish. är svenska, är bra.

[Thirteen]

I have a pair of '70's Milabs with the rectangular diaphragms, they sound awesome. Put the two of them on a concert grand once at Westlake 4 in LA and the producer's jaw dropped.

[spandex man]

I think we have a pair of those Parliament house mics at the studio too. I dont think ive ever used them though.

[Jason]

[quote="Thirteen"]I have a pair of '70's Milabs with the rectangular diaphragms, they sound awesome. Put the two of them on a concert grand once at Westlake 4 in LA and the producer's jaw dropped.[/quote]

Back when I used to work at another studio they had 5 or 6 of the rectangular ones. Used them on piano, horns, woodwind etc... They sound great in these applications.

[mylesgm]

And you used them instead of what mics?

Back when I used to work at another studio they had 5 or 6 of the rectangular ones. Used them on piano, horns, woodwind etc... They sound great in these applications.

[Jason]

Well they used to come out for big band work or anything that needed lots of mics. I would nomally have Geffel 930's, 800's, 70.1's, 300's, Neumann 84's and U87's, out at the same time. I knew the Milabs sound good on the horns or woodwind so they would normally end up there first or a pair on the piano.

[Chris H]

I read somwhere...probably AT, that Chesky used the Milab rectangular capsule in their custom made mics for their blumlein recordings so that's a bit of an endorsement i suppose.

[GlennS]

I read somwhere...probably AT, that Chesky used the Milab rectangular capsule in their custom made mics for their blumlein recordings so that's a bit of an endorsement i suppose.

Not sure about Chesky, but Waterlily Acoustics used the Milab rectangular capsules in that beast of a mic they used for their recordings, like Ry Cooder's 'A Meeting By the River'. That's an amazing sounding cd.