Originally Posted by Mike Caro Substudio
Originally Posted by the songcabinet
Not long ago I considered getting the same one, but had Big Jim talk me out of it. I researched the mic more in depth, and found out that those MXL's have a bad rep for exactly that.. sounding noisy.

So, I don't think all tube mic's are like that at all, but many MXL's may be. Seems, the decent tube mic's you can get, would be from a Rode K2 and up..

I have heard soundclips from some T-Bone's (cheap German brand) in the low price range, I thought were decent, but haven't tried them yet.

Soundwise, I think you get a similar effect from an exciter and from just putting Autotune on (without actually editing). Much of the current pop/Nashville vocal sound comes from Autotune.


Actually two of my other mics are MXL and they are GREAT, no noise and they are the best sounding mics in there price range.
And they are condenser so that theory is out the window lol

Could be a problem with my actual microphone... thought maybe someone may have the same mic or at least a tube mic to narrow things down.


I wasn't talking trash about MXL in general. And the V69 Moghami edition has been recommended to me from several, but it seems that with that particular model there's a large quantity of bad mic's. Im sure it sounds great if it's working properly, but it sounds like you just got a bad one.. get another of that same exact model, and it might be just fine..