Review on 🎤 Neumann TLM 103 Condenser Microphone: Professional Studio-Grade Audio Recording Tool by Tawan Piyawan ᠌

Name: 🎤 Neumann TLM 103 Condenser Microphone: Professional Studio-Grade Audio Recording Tool
Item: 🎤 Neumann TLM 103 Condenser Microphone: Professional Studio-Grade Audio Recording Tool
Rating: 5

August 30, 2022

I am amazed at how well made the product is, just magical!

In fact, it certainly has decent analogues, but in order to really seriously save money, you need to look not at factory models of branded microphones, but towards microphone modders, of which a fairly decent number are now divorced. For example, google the American company Micparts (or the words DIY Microphone Kits) and you will really learn quite a lot of new things and you will be able to find analogues not only of the TLM103, but also of many other legendary microphones for quite sane money. Also, very worthy analogs are made by the Canadian company ADK Microphones and the American Advanced Audio Microphones, also for very little money.
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Pros

An excellent microphone, with its own branded sound signature, but somewhat overpriced. I am a professional announcer with a little over twenty years of experience, I have worked on many models of studio microphones, I worked on this one, but in the end I sold it, because in everyday use there are also disadvantages in this microphone.

Cons

There is some equalization / compression in the microphone circuit, which is completely unnecessary / interferes with a professional microphone. That is why beginners squeak from it so much (wow, I recorded the test and I already sound like a real pro on the sample - a serious sound!), And people who have worked with experience buy other models instead, with a more transparent and flexible sound scheme. Professionals in it do not like, first of all, the uniformity of sound, ironically set by the microphone circuit itself. By the way, it is assembled on SMD parts (google the difference between SMD components and conventional radio components) and if something happens (power surge, phantom power failure on the preamp or sound card, strong static, etc.), you will not repair it for nothing, you will have to change the entire the entire board, like the motherboard in an iPhone. That at its price it will come out at a decent price, and even taking into account the shipment to Germany back and forth, then in general.