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I liked the CMV so much I sought out another one to make a pair. See Tape Op #46 for an excellent article on these capsules by David Bock as well as the cover photo of one of my M7 capsules.) The $1900 microphone, in fact, sounded better than the $3300 U-67 I had bought. (This is the cardioid capsule that is related to the U-47 capsule, hence the CMV’s designation as the poor man’s 47. The mic sounded amazing, especially with the M7 capsule. You should email him, and see if he has another set.” So I did - and he did - and about $1900 or so of purchase price, shipping fees, wire transfer fees, and custom fees later, I had the mic and three capsules. I’d heard about eBay scams no way was I sending $1500 to some country halfway around the world! Scott, however, set me straight, “That item is from my good friend Milos! He’s great people! He gets those mics all the time. I was at the second TapeOpCon in Portland, OR talking to tube guru (and hardcore surfer) Scott Hampton of Hamptone, and I mentioned seeing the CMV-563 on eBay but not bidding on it because it was in Slovakia.
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#Sketchy micro cmv series
The Neumann CMV-5 and RFT series bottle mics also use the bayonet capsules, but the 563’s seem the most common.)Īnyway, back to the story at hand. (Note: The M7, M8 and M9 also came in the “s” version (M7s, M8s, and the M9s) which screwed directly onto the CMVs (but won’t fit Blue or Red bodies) and did not need the bayonet mount. However, not all CMV-563 mics and M-series capsules are bayonet-mount, so be aware of this while looking for mics and capsules. This system predates pickup-pattern switching on more modern condenser mics like the U-67 and U-87. Given that U-67’s go for $3000 and up, it seemed too good to be true: a tube Neumann with not one, but three interchangeable capsules! I should mention at this point that every microphone and capsule in this review (except of course the referenced U-67) uses a “bayonet” style capsule-mounting system developed by Neumann that allows quick interchangeability of capsules (except for the M55K capsule which threads directly onto - and only onto - the CMV-563). The M7 is cardioid, the M8 is figure-eight, and the M55K is a small diaphragm omni. While I was looking around on broker and auction sites, I stumbled across a CMV-563 with M7, M8, and M55K capsules for $1500 on a buy-it-now auction. This is one of the problems with buying vintage microphones.
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It sounds good - really good in fact - but it, along with all the other vintage and new mics I own, just doesn’t have that special something - that extra 3% - that the previously borrowed U-67 has. ) I went on to audition several U-67’s and eventually purchased one of them. (You can hear this mic on just about all the lead vocals on Nedelle‘s Republic of Two and Jackpot’s F+. I had the mic on loan for over ten years, but I eventually had to give it back. It had a really magical midrange and upper top end that just wasn’t there in other mics. Every engineer who used it in my studio commented how it was one of the best sounding U-67’s they’d heard. In my case, it was a Neumann U-67 that just sounded amazing. Ask anyone who’s ever owned, and really come to know, a truly great sounding vintage Neumann, AKG, or Telefunken mic, and they’ll tell you that there’s some indefinable magic in the all-too-rare great ones.