CAD M179-M177 LD mics.. Amazing.

[GZsound]

I have been the proud owner of a CAD M179 mic for the last six months and had a lot of opportunity to try it out and put it through it's paces.

I have AT 4047, 4050, Rode NT1 and three CAD GXL 2400 LD mics that I have been using for live blugrass for the last two years with good results.

The last CD project I worked on involved acoustic instruments and vocals. I used the M179 on pretty much all of them. Banjo, mandolin, acoustic guitar, fiddle and Dobro..male and female vocals.

I also recently completed a project with a female vocalist, sort of a torch singer doing love songs type project.

I used the M179 on both projects after getting better, more consistant results than I could achieve with the AT mics. I did use small condensers on some of the acoustic instruments, but the CAD was on all vocals.

And today I recieved two CAD M177 mics, which are the fixed cardioid pattern little brother of the M179. I set them up and realized they were as natural sounding and nice as the M179..

The M179 cost me $200. The TWO M177's cost me $139 (for both!) which included shipping and shock mounts. 2 year warranty.

I have used just about every "cheap" LD microphone out there. Rode, Studio Projects, AT, AKG C3000's, etc. and these CAD American made mics just smoke them all if clean clear uncolored sound is the goal.

And at under $70 each.. simply unbelievable.

Samples can be heard at www.phoenixrisingband.com and www.myspace.com/rachelvarayne All the vocals were done with my M179.

[87PRS]

nice GZ....wondering if you've had the experience of using a CAD Trion ribbon mic yet...thinkin' seriously about adding a couple M177's & the 7000

http://www.americanmusical.com/item--i-CAD-TRION7000-G25.html

BTW where did you buy the M177's for that price? I've only found them here for 79.99 each
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/CAD-M177-Cardioid-Condenser-Microphone-?sku=271266

[Bops2000]

Just Great
Now I have to buy some -sheesh!
And i promised the misses no more stuff for awhile....
my head hurts

[GZsound]

Well...seriously, you can't go wrong.

I used my M179 on all the vocals at www.myspace.com/rachelvarayne and I think they came out pretty good. The M177 is basically a fixed cardioid version of the M179 and for under $80, I am totally impressed with the mics.

And I have a Trion 7000 ribbon but have not had a chance to try it out yet. I won it on another forum. I'm going to give it a try on my sax as soon as I get some time.

I now own nine CAD mics and find them to be amazing for the money..

I have four older American made CAD CM17 condensers that I use on all my acoustic recordings. I also own Octava MC012, MXL and Shure SM81 condensers, but those CAD's simply sound better.

I had three CAD GXL 2400's and I sold two of them yesterday for $50 each, so the cost to upgrade to the two M177's was $40.. not bad.

[Bops2000]

Not at all GZ, I ran out out of write offs, will check them out on next trip to the "store". Thanks for the heads up BTW

[hello people]

I've got the CADm179...or the 177...I can never remember which one it is!

Anyway here's a picture:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v704/frankgrimes/mics2.jpg

The mic on the left is a single Behringer C2.

[GZsound]

I've got the CADm179...or the 177...I can never remember which one it is!

Anyway here's a picture:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v704/frankgrimes/mics2.jpg

The mic on the left is a single Behringer C2.

That's an M177. The M179 has a variable pattern control and a plastic label on top of the roll off and pad switches.

[hello people]

Do you rate the 177 highly? For what it is I mean...the cost etc.

[GZsound]

Do you rate the 177 highly? For what it is I mean...the cost etc.

I rate my M177's very high. I compare them to my AT 4047 and 4050 mics. They are low noise and very neutral sounding mics. They basically sound like whatever you put in front of them.

I use my two M177's in my wife's bluegrass band at every gig she plays and they just sound great. Tremendous bang for the buck.

Since they travel and are used outside, I didn't want to take any expensive mics on the road. We had been using CAD GXL 2400 mics, and in fact still use one of them, but we replaced the other two with M177's and the difference was remarkable.

She uses three LD mics on stage. No monitors. We record every rehearsal with the mics set in their live positions in the studio and the M177 mics just simply sound great.

[Bops2000]

Curious GZ, have you ever tried a 3035 ?

[GZsound]

Curious GZ, have you ever tried a 3035 ?

No.. the only AT mics I have any experience with are the 4033, which I did not care for, the 4047 and 4050, both of which I consider great mics and I have used them many times.

I also have used and owned Rode NT1's and a couple of MXL LD mics.. I sold them all.