I think that this is super cool. In a world of plugins and software, it's neat to find folks making special effects sounds like this. Placid Audio also comes to mind. You can get a lot of character during tracking by mixing a few mics like this into your session.
I've got a DirtMic-01 with a harmonica player at the moment. He's going to be doing some studio recordings with it soon but he sent me this iphone recording of him just plugged straight into a PA facebook.com/DrAlienSmith/videos/2206816382685239/
Nice distorted tone. I haven't had much luck getting the amplified harmonica sound I want using distortion pedals, so that's a plus. The downside is I like to use other FX pedals, like tremolo, delay, reverb, etc., and a low-Z phantom-power mic makes that impossible without some creative jury-rigging.
everybodys commenting how 200$ is crazy for this. but i think that for 200$ its a steal. sure you can use a distortion pedal on your guitar or whatever but the ability to throw mad gain on whatever else you want is worth it to me.
This is an interesting product. When you have an element that requires dirt on it, it beats having to have pedals or reamping. The price point seems fair. How are you finding the clean tones compared to other mics in the same price range? Would this work as someone's "first good mic"?
No. This is a mic for color and dirt and for special tones. A first good mic for a studio would be something that is kinda bland but never sounds too bad on any one source.
They should've put the ability to use it clean, or even put a high shelf switch, for live applications. Otherwise, i feel like you should have tried it on more sources, like kick out, room or even vocals. It breaks up very nicely, and is very natural in it's distortion, compared to plugins. I'd even try it on some synths. Overall, seems like a great tool to have at hand before going for a vst, achieving more natural sound earlier in the chain.
I love all this quirky out of the box stuff. This kind of reminds me of the Pipe Bomb mic Tool used. Could be interesting to compare them in a future video?
@@ChrisSheridan295 Haven't seen earthquaker using it. From what I understand, they put a guitar pickup inside a copper tube, which was put inside of Maynard's megaphone (dude loves em apparently). I'm wondering if it could find other applications. Like putting it in a kick drum's porthole or right on the snare.
I've been tempted to buy a lo-fi mic to use as a unique effect but never have. Here in the UK, a small company called Wasaphone makes some really cool lo-fi microphones. Their "Big Boy" is a really cool one if they still make it. Sylvia Massy likes the Wasaphone mics from what I've seen.
not distorted at all, but if you want a good lo-fi mic check out one of those Radio Shack boundary mics. really good on drums in front of the kick/under the snare. also makes a good room mic depending on the application. wouldn't use it on anything with heavy distortion, but for drums/bass/room tone it's a damn good mic. you can find one used for like $20 on ebay.
you can literally get the same sound running a 57/58 into an overdrive. no need to spend $200 on a mic when you can use what 99.999% of engineers already have
Makes drums sound like The Flaming Lips! I wonder what the distortion circuit is. I expect it's a simplified famous overdrive pedal. I like distortion on snare drums. I think you can use it a lot more easily in a way that you don't realise it's Distorted.
I'm surprised you didn't try it as a close-mic on the snare. Either way, I fail to see how this is functionally different from using a dynamic with an XLR to 1/4" cable into a guitar pedal.
This would be great as a live tool in situations where you don't have a lot of cash, need to have varying degrees of distortion right at hands level (harmonica), and also need a good harmonica mic. I could see taking this thing down to Beale street. Could be cool. Would never buy it for my studio, though. Memphis is full of cool vintage stuff, I could just make this for my studio without spending any money.
@@DrAlienSmith just checked it after my comment,. good idea,. with the harmonika a bit too shaky in the high mids for my taste,. but the drumsamples sound amazing,. and also for shout and lowfi vocals this seems to be a great choice,.. I like it,.
Yeah it will feedback on extreme settings. I havent seen anyone use it at an actual gig but here is a rough phone vid of a band called Magic Chicken Fudgetoe jamming with the DirtMic-01. Gain setting on 10 o'clock ( fairly low) instagram.com/p/BmdRfenlfPc/?igshid=1wm2wdepje2co
DrAlienSmith Wow... not sure that singer needed anything else to make his voice rip. Powerful! Ha ha Still... I see it more as a creative recording tool. I mean it’s omni on top of all the gain and clipping, right?
@@BadChizzle haha, yeah he is a bit of a powerhouse. Definitely I've designed this for the studio but I do get a lot of questions about the live thing.
Check out this video of the band Seether. They did a live performance of one of their songs and the singer uses 2 mics, one distorted and one clean. This video is from 2011, so I don't know if it's the same mic. Check it out: th-cam.com/video/8ZKGGuW9JiM/w-d-xo.html
I disagree - considering some high ends mics go for thousands - this mic is dirt cheap no pun intended - although it is a gimmick - a pretty damn good gimmick but still a gimmick
I think that this is super cool. In a world of plugins and software, it's neat to find folks making special effects sounds like this. Placid Audio also comes to mind. You can get a lot of character during tracking by mixing a few mics like this into your session.
It sounded great on everything.
It’s a great second mic on the guitar. I bet it sounds great on vocals too
i really LOVED how it doubles with a clean mic!!! what a wonderful addition to a mic collection!
Glad you liked hearing the mic ilias :)
I would like to see a video on this being used on vocals.
A phantom powered bullet mic? Never seen that before. As a harmonica player, I'm interested in hearing how it sounds with actual harmonica.
I've got a DirtMic-01 with a harmonica player at the moment. He's going to be doing some studio recordings with it soon but he sent me this iphone recording of him just plugged straight into a PA facebook.com/DrAlienSmith/videos/2206816382685239/
Nice distorted tone. I haven't had much luck getting the amplified harmonica sound I want using distortion pedals, so that's a plus. The downside is I like to use other FX pedals, like tremolo, delay, reverb, etc., and a low-Z phantom-power mic makes that impossible without some creative jury-rigging.
@@adamfox9651 glad you like the tone :) Yeah, with other pedals too it would be tricky
everybodys commenting how 200$ is crazy for this. but i think that for 200$ its a steal. sure you can use a distortion pedal on your guitar or whatever but the ability to throw mad gain on whatever else you want is worth it to me.
These last three vids uploaded to your channel are on point!
Thanks!
I love it! I need to get one ASAP
I think it sounds really good but I don't know if it is $200+ good.
Really innovative concept, personally it’s the last piece of audio tech I could justify spending money on but it doesn’t mean I don’t want one!
The best tho is modding an old bell telephone to a 1/4 inch jack - dean ween did that sounds badass - cheap too
This is an interesting product. When you have an element that requires dirt on it, it beats having to have pedals or reamping. The price point seems fair. How are you finding the clean tones compared to other mics in the same price range? Would this work as someone's "first good mic"?
No. This is a mic for color and dirt and for special tones. A first good mic for a studio would be something that is kinda bland but never sounds too bad on any one source.
Yeah Ryan is right, this mic has been designed for dirt and dirt only :)
DrAlienSmith alright. I’m looking to expand my mic collection, I’ll put this one on my list.
@@TheToneLounge Awesome!
They should've put the ability to use it clean, or even put a high shelf switch, for live applications. Otherwise, i feel like you should have tried it on more sources, like kick out, room or even vocals. It breaks up very nicely, and is very natural in it's distortion, compared to plugins. I'd even try it on some synths. Overall, seems like a great tool to have at hand before going for a vst, achieving more natural sound earlier in the chain.
I love all this quirky out of the box stuff. This kind of reminds me of the Pipe Bomb mic Tool used. Could be interesting to compare them in a future video?
I haven't heard of that one yet.
I'm pretty sure it never actually worked if you mean the one from the earthquaker video
@@ChrisSheridan295 Haven't seen earthquaker using it. From what I understand, they put a guitar pickup inside a copper tube, which was put inside of Maynard's megaphone (dude loves em apparently). I'm wondering if it could find other applications. Like putting it in a kick drum's porthole or right on the snare.
anyone know what the distortion circuit is based on?
I've been tempted to buy a lo-fi mic to use as a unique effect but never have. Here in the UK, a small company called Wasaphone makes some really cool lo-fi microphones. Their "Big Boy" is a really cool one if they still make it. Sylvia Massy likes the Wasaphone mics from what I've seen.
not distorted at all, but if you want a good lo-fi mic check out one of those Radio Shack boundary mics. really good on drums in front of the kick/under the snare. also makes a good room mic depending on the application. wouldn't use it on anything with heavy distortion, but for drums/bass/room tone it's a damn good mic. you can find one used for like $20 on ebay.
that bass tone reminds me of the first emerson lake and palmer album
How different is this mic to a green bullet do you think? (Besides the distortion aspect, which I could reamp later?)
I loved it on the drums, I'd love to see you mix it with close mics on drums to create a sort of room effect, might sound cool :)
Yeah I thought of that too.
Jakub, check out this video, its exactly that, the DirtMic-01 used as a room mic with close mics as well th-cam.com/video/QRFJX778-GQ/w-d-xo.html
omg used on the drums for a drum intro would be awesome love it
you can literally get the same sound running a 57/58 into an overdrive. no need to spend $200 on a mic when you can use what 99.999% of engineers already have
preach comrade!
Cool position to place the mic on the drums - The enhanced "Wurst"!
Yeah I figured it's gotta be the only one for this.
@@creativesoundlab ... and it sounds cool! Give this thing a little compression and it could make any drums sound exciting!
You should check out The Periscope mic from Scope Labs!
The dirt sounds good on drums and bass, vocals possibly too. I would like to see this mic compared with a plugin distortion.
Which plugin distortions would you suggest?
DrAlienSmith ableton stock overdrive or saturater
@@nicholascowan1731 Interesting, I don't have access to Ableton but I'll have a think about it and see what I can do.
DrAlienSmith yes please. cause those are the best dirt plugins i’ve ever heard
In a live setting distortion like that will feedback like crazy.
Makes drums sound like The Flaming Lips! I wonder what the distortion circuit is. I expect it's a simplified famous overdrive pedal. I like distortion on snare drums. I think you can use it a lot more easily in a way that you don't realise it's Distorted.
I'm surprised you didn't try it as a close-mic on the snare. Either way, I fail to see how this is functionally different from using a dynamic with an XLR to 1/4" cable into a guitar pedal.
Such good sounds! Love the way the distortion doubles up as compression, esp on drums. How would this compare to (say) a vanilla omni plus fuzz pedal?
Gosh no idea, but it sounds different than a fuzz to me.
Where can I get this mic, tried looking on reverb and I could not find it!
Here is the link Nate reverb.com/au/item/14095739-dirtmic-01-distortion-microphone-by-draliensmith Let me know how you go, Al
I use a base station mic I modded into a lofi stomp box similar
This would be great as a live tool in situations where you don't have a lot of cash, need to have varying degrees of distortion right at hands level (harmonica), and also need a good harmonica mic. I could see taking this thing down to Beale street. Could be cool.
Would never buy it for my studio, though. Memphis is full of cool vintage stuff, I could just make this for my studio without spending any money.
Or... you could put the mike (that you already have) through the fuzz box (that you already have).
Excelente
placid audio make some cool stuff. old tech like carbon mics and things. expensive for lofi stuff but sounds cool
Cool I'll check them out
Cool mic
Thats sick
From outside it looks like a Superlux D112C which is about 40€ here in Europe
It is a Superlux D112C, but it's been modded with a phantom powered distortion circuit which is placed inside the mic 🙂
@@DrAlienSmith just checked it after my comment,. good idea,. with the harmonika a bit too shaky in the high mids for my taste,. but the drumsamples sound amazing,. and also for shout and lowfi vocals this seems to be a great choice,.. I like it,.
@@round69 awesome, thanks for checking it out!
On that drum clip at the start it sounds PHATT!!!
Thanks!
Nice
Afraid that it would sound bad or gimmicky if that makes sense. But i kinda like that fuzzy sound
Yeah amazing on bass. It’s like a synth bass but with the playability of a bass guitar
@@creativesoundlab definetly prefer it on bass from what i heard
I think live, this may give feedback trouble. Would like to see a trial. 🕴🏻
Yeah it will feedback on extreme settings. I havent seen anyone use it at an actual gig but here is a rough phone vid of a band called Magic Chicken Fudgetoe jamming with the DirtMic-01. Gain setting on 10 o'clock ( fairly low) instagram.com/p/BmdRfenlfPc/?igshid=1wm2wdepje2co
DrAlienSmith Wow... not sure that singer needed anything else to make his voice rip. Powerful! Ha ha
Still... I see it more as a creative recording tool. I mean it’s omni on top of all the gain and clipping, right?
DrAlienSmith Oh yeah! Magic Chicken Fudgetoe is such a great band name! You won’t soon forget that name!!🤔😝👍🏼✨
@@BadChizzle haha, yeah he is a bit of a powerhouse. Definitely I've designed this for the studio but I do get a lot of questions about the live thing.
DrAlienSmith Guess you should know I think it’s a very Cool mic, man. I’m not being Mr. Negative, here. Just blabbing.
Check out this video of the band Seether. They did a live performance of one of their songs and the singer uses 2 mics, one distorted and one clean. This video is from 2011, so I don't know if it's the same mic. Check it out:
th-cam.com/video/8ZKGGuW9JiM/w-d-xo.html
I disagree - considering some high ends mics go for thousands - this mic is dirt cheap no pun intended - although it is a gimmick - a pretty damn good gimmick but still a gimmick
Nah, would rather use the $200 on something more useful.
Fair enough. It's a very focus application piece of gear.
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