V13 had more of the character I would associate with vintage recordings, known to be done using original U-47's ...as well as more modern recordings known to be done using original U-47's. The female voice doesn't seem to capitalize on the qualities as much as a harder sung male voice would.. but I find it curious that "mid-forward" was used to describe the Warm Audio mic. I find neither are as "mid-forward" as the muscular midrange of an original 47...however the V13 seemed to have more mid-muscle and attitude than the Warm... that for me, was just too "polite" sounding to the point of sounding vanilla and boring for me. The V13 sounded more "pro" by a pretty good margin IMO. I'm here because my son graduates soon and want to find him a decent LDC. So far, I'm sold on the V13... I've rented original U-47's for many years on occasion, they are anything but smooth, open, natural sounding, silky or detailed... or any other term used to describe what usually would sound "better" to most in a blindfold test.. They are edgy mics with hard , muscular midrange, gritty and grainy sounding mics with attitude and character like no other. Most modern mics would be sweet and smooth sounding by contrast. Like the difference having microphones with the smoother voices of Stevie Wonder, Sam Cooke, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, etc.... and a U-47 would be more like the Joe Cocker, David Ruffin, Eric Burden,and James Brown
Thank you so much for the comment. I absolutely love the V13, i basically record voice overs and it is my 2nd choice after the TLM67. I have upladed some more tests with my voice (spoken word) in the list.
V13 had more of the character I would associate with vintage recordings, known to be done using original U-47's ...as well as more modern recordings known to be done using original U-47's. The female voice doesn't seem to capitalize on the qualities as much as a harder sung male voice would.. but I find it curious that "mid-forward" was used to describe the Warm Audio mic. I find neither are as "mid-forward" as the muscular midrange of an original 47...however the V13 seemed to have more mid-muscle and attitude than the Warm... that for me, was just too "polite" sounding to the point of sounding vanilla and boring for me. The V13 sounded more "pro" by a pretty good margin IMO. I'm here because my son graduates soon and want to find him a decent LDC. So far, I'm sold on the V13...
I've rented original U-47's for many years on occasion, they are anything but smooth, open, natural sounding, silky or detailed... or any other term used to describe what usually would sound "better" to most in a blindfold test.. They are edgy mics with hard , muscular midrange, gritty and grainy sounding mics with attitude and character like no other. Most modern mics would be sweet and smooth sounding by contrast. Like the difference having microphones with the smoother voices of Stevie Wonder, Sam Cooke, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, etc.... and a U-47 would be more like the Joe Cocker, David Ruffin, Eric Burden,and James Brown
Thank you so much for the comment. I absolutely love the V13, i basically record voice overs and it is my 2nd choice after the TLM67. I have upladed some more tests with my voice (spoken word) in the list.
That v13 sounds way more open 😳 🔥 so clean
I am glad you like it! It was a surprise! Love this mic.
Great video. Wish you did the same song with both mics. They both sounded amazing, so hard to tell. What a great singer! Production awesome!
Thanks a lot. Locking forward to recording her again! Just got a MOTU 8pre es, so next time i could rec with multiple mics at the same time.
Great vocal performances! Surprised to read they're that young and sound that good! The Vanguard V13 sounds really nice on her voice too...
Thank you so much for your comment. I am looking forward to getting over the lock down and try her on my new TLM67!
This was very pleasing to listen to.
Really happy you like it Kendrick!